By Tim Linden Supporting innovation in the fresh produce industry by sponsoring the Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology is a natural for Bayer, which considers itself the leader in agricultural research and development with specialty crops its main focus. Daniel Kurdys, Director of Horticulture & Seed Growth in North America for Bayer Crop ...
By Tim Linden There is not a quick nor easy fix, but a trio of executives from C.H. Robinson recently predicted that the supply chain issues that have plagued the nation during the pandemic will ease some in 2022, especially in the latter half of the year. The CHR experts—Steve Raetz, Director of Research and ...
CA Member: Homegrown Organic Farms, Porterville, California Member since 2019 By Tim Linden Background: John and Cindy France were farmers in the San Joaquin Valley in the mid-1990s who were continually increasing their production of organic fruit crops. But they kept running into trouble marketing their output. “They had a number of bad experiences with ...
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. Below is update from some of the startups housed in ...