Posts By: Tim Linden

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: Using the ‘Whole Plant’ Gaining Traction

The Nunes Company launched its Broccoleaf product more than a year ago as a way to utilize a part of the broccoli plant that was discarded.  The item has been well accepted and has received kudos from food writers across the country. At the time, Matt Seeley, vice president of marketing for the firm, said ...

EL NIÑO: WATER YEAR 2016 Will it Live Up to the Hype?

By Tim Linden   You can hardly pick up a newspaper or check out the internet without someone mentioning the Great El Niño lurking in the Pacific Ocean that will soon be peppering California with a series of strong storms. “El Niño is on track to become one of the most powerful on record, strongly ...

2015 WG ANNUAL MEETING: Set Sail for San Diego

The Grand Del Mar in San Diego will serve as the elegant backdrop for the 90th Annual Meeting of the Western Growers Association. Geographically, the association has not moved that far since its first meeting back in 1926, which was held about 100 miles east as the crow flies in Brawley, Calif., at the Planters ...

WATER RIGHTS Discussion About Overhaul Moving into Public Arena

The granting of water rights in California is a very complex system that has remained largely out of the public eye for a century. The first laws codifying those rights were enacted in 1914 creating that year as an important one in the discussion.  With the current four year drought creating headaches for water districts, ...

Legislator Profile: Frank Pratt represents Arizona’s 8th Legislative District including parts of Pinal and Gila counties

 (Editor’s Note: The questions and answers have been paraphrased for brevity and clarity.) I know your roots run deep in Arizona, give us your family background. My grandfather on my mother’s side came to territorial Arizona during the 1880s Silver Rush.  He settled in Florence where he was a grocer and a baker.  My father ...