Posts By: Tim Linden

WG ANNUAL MEETING 2021: ‘Grow Together’ at the Fairmont in San Diego

We’re back!!! Western Growers will hold its 2021 Annual Meeting at the Fairmont Grand Del Mar in San Diego, from November 7-10, as the western produce industry celebrates the return of in-person events with a robust program. “We are looking forward to greeting everyone in San Diego,” said Western Growers CEO and President Dave Puglia. ...

WG’s H-2A Effort Continues to Expand

By Tim Linden It is no secret that the United States is currently facing a tremendous labor shortage as employers all over the country are having trouble finding workers to fill vacant slots. Welcome to production agriculture, which has been dealing with an acute labor shortage for many years. The problem has been increasing over ...

Collaboration Focus of WGCIT

By Tim Linden When the Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology was launched in 2015, the concept had already been proven in several other industries: bring technology innovators together with industry users to create new solutions to age-old problems. But the fruit and vegetable industry did not have its own incubator until WGCIT was ...

Director Profile: Boskovich Follows Well Worn Path to Company Business

George Boskovich III, Boskovich Farms and Fresh Prep By Tim Linden “When I was in high school, I mentioned to my dad that it would only be a couple more years before I would be working full time for Boskovich Farms,” recalls George Boskovich III, the fourth generation of the family tree involved in agriculture. ...

A Legacy of Peaches on the Western Slope…and Much More

Bruce Talbott, Talbott’s Mountain Gold, Palisade, CO Colorado Member Profile Member since February 24, 2014 A Family Migrates: In the first several decades of the 20th century, the state of Colorado tried to entice residents of Iowa to relocate to the Rocky Mountain State claiming that it had an abundance of “good air and good ...