Posts By: Tim Linden

13th Generation in New Mexico Continues to Prosper with Chilies

New Mexico Member Profile The Baca Family Bueno Foods Albuquerque, New Mexico Member Since 2014 The Baca Family of New Mexico has much to be proud of as they have very deep roots in their home state, continue to build a thriving business as their family firm approaches its 70th anniversary, and just may well ...

WG Members Cope with COVID…With Innovation

By Tim Linden Of the $1.4 billion in relief checks already provided to more than 80,000 farmers and ranchers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, less than 2%, about $25 million, has been allocated to specialty crop producers. As is typically the case when it comes to federal government support for agriculture, livestock and field crops ...

Giclas Thrived with Multiple Tasks

By Tim Linden Henry Lee Giclas III was born in Socorro, New Mexico and recently retired in nearby Albuquerque, but in between, he lived an adventurous life that took him around the world and through several professions. He is well known in the produce industry where he worked for Western Growers for 30 years but ...

UPDATE from the WGCIT

About five years ago, Western Growers launched its Center for Innovation and Technology (WGCIT), housed in the Taylor Farms building in downtown Salinas. WGCIT brings together the ag industry and firms operating in the technology space to actively work on some of agriculture’s most vexing problems. At any one time, there are about 50 firms ...