Posts By: Tim Linden

Update from the Center – May/June

aerialPlot aerialPLOT joined WGCIT at the beginning of March, and immediately kicked off its membership by hosting a two-day training session with a key multi-national client. aerialPLOT is a research company that integrates aerial sensors with other data sources to monitor real-time crop dynamics. In addition to operations covering row crops throughout the Midwest, aerialPLOT ...

WGCIT Sponsor: RDO Actively Facilitating Tech Advances by Growers

From more than 75 locations nationally, RDO Equipment Co. is a leading supporter of agriculture’s move to a more technology-oriented future. It sells and supports agriculture, environmental, construction, surveying and irrigation equipment from leading manufacturers, including John Deere. “There are 11 equipment stores in California plus three RDO Water locations along with eight stores in…

WGCIT Resident: Naïo Technologies Offering New Robotic Weeders to U.S. Ag

Naïo Technologies, a French company specializing in autonomous robots for agriculture, has just celebrated its 10th anniversary with 300 robots in operation worldwide, 80 people employed across the globe and more than 60,000 hours of operations under its belt. The company has been operating in California since 2019 and now has four robot models in ...

Legislator Profile: Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris Represents Business from a Unique Perch

Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris freely admits it was the election of Donald J. Trump in 2016 that first led her to consider a career in an elected office. “It was a wake-up call for a lot of us, ” she said. In fact, there was a clarion call for women to get involved and become candidates. ...

How to Get the Most Out of a WG Membership

Western Growers has long been known as the major voice of the western fruit, vegetable and nut industries. Since its inception almost a century ago, the association has represented the best interests of its members as they go about the business of growing, harvesting, packing, selling and shipping the best medicine in the world. Western ...

Director Profile: Mike Way Forges Own Path to Produce

  Like many of his colleagues on the Western Growers Board of Directors, Mike Way grew up in Salinas, graduated from Salinas High School and went to college to major in ag business. But he was not born with agriculture in his blood. “I was born and raised in downtown Salinas,” he recalls. “My dad ...

Western Growers Touts Board Elections Amid Changes

As it does every two years, the Western Growers membership is approaching election season for its Board of Directors. Western Growers is one of the very few produce industry associations that elects the lion’s share of its Board in competitive races with a plurality vote picking the winner. In practice, each Western Growers Regular Member ...

Inside Western Growers: A Look at WG Employee Champions

Founded in 1926, Western Growers represents local and regional family farmers growing fresh produce in Arizona, California, Colorado and New Mexico. Western Growers provides a lobbying voice in state and federal government, affordable health benefits, technology and innovation development, transportation solutions, legal and human resources guidance and more. Behind the association are more than…

Update from the Center

aerialPlot aerialPLOT joined WGCIT at the beginning of March, and immediately kicked off its membership by hosting a two-day training session with a key multi-national client. aerialPLOT is a research company that integrates aerial sensors with other data sources to monitor real-time crop dynamics. In addition to operations covering row crops throughout the Midwest, aerialPLOT ...