Vic Smith readily admits that the agricultural technology play he and others are helping to fund is long term in nature with a positive return on investment still off in the future. “If I had to justify it with my CFO, that might be difficult to do,” he quipped. But Smith, CEO and president of ...
During the late 1960s, the development of the mechanical tomato harvester saved the California processing tomato industry and led to great expansion of production. As others were entering the industry, Lodi tomato farmer John Kautz saw difficulties on the horizon and began diverting his acreage to wine grapes. This going-against-the grain action was a seminal ...
It’s a complicated world with far more nuances than a generation ago, which has led to a matching of complexity in the legal issues that agricultural firms face. Battles with farmworker unions dominated the ag legal scene a generation ago. Today, the issues that companies deal with are wide ranging with 2018 bringing particular focus ...
Rob O’Neill, who is one of the most highly-decorated combat veterans of our time and the author of the memoir “The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior,” will be the keynote speaker at the Western Growers Annual Meeting in Desert Springs in late October. ...