By Tim Linden It’s November and lots of harvesting equipment has transitioned from coastal California to the western desert growing regions for winter. And so has the search for fresh vegetable donations. Feeding America is a nationwide network of food banks that provides an untold number of meals every year to millions of U.S. residents ...
By Tim Linden As 2020 moves toward the finish line, FarmWise has completed its first commercial season using automated machines to eliminate weeds on a variety of crops in the Santa Maria and Salinas regions. The company has now deployed its 12 machines for winter vegetable production in Yuma offering the same weeding service to ...
By Tim Linden Recently, Western Growers and the Canadian government announced that the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service (TCS) had become the first international sponsor of the trade association’s Center for Innovation & Technology (WGCIT). The Consulate General of Canada in San Francisco Rana Sarkar explained that trade and investment promotion is an important part of ...
By Tim Linden Director Profile Fred LoBue, Jr. Chairman of the Board LoBue Farms, Inc. Lindsay, CA Member Since 2000 | Director Since 2000 When retiring Fred LoBue Jr. approached the subject of his life, he took to it in the same methodical way that largely defined the work he has done for ...
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 operating ...