Joe Bernardi Bernardi & Associates Turlock, CA Member Since 1971 GETTING STARTED: When Joe Bernardi was a senior in college at San Diego State University in the late 1980s, his father asked him what he was going to do for a living. “I told him I was going to come work for him.” At the ...
In the past couple of years, the use of Certa-Set plastic piping has increased tremendously as more and more growers take advantage of this technology which allows for many positives including tremendous labor savings. Craig Stafford, regional manager for Nelson Irrigation, which is headquartered in Walla Walla, WA, said these are relative boom times for ...
(Editor’s Note: The questions and answers have been paraphrased for clarity and brevity.) You represent a large portion of San Bernardino County. Is that where you grew up? I am from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which is where I spent my formative years. I grew up on my grandfather and grandmother’s farm where they grew tomatoes ...
Within about a month of each other, three prominent members of the produce industry in the western half of the United States died. Each had served agriculture well and was a leader in the industry in every sense of that word. George Tanimura (1915-2016) On April 15, George Tanimura, the founding co-chairman of ...