Director Profile Brandon Grimm General Manager, Cal Organic Division Grimmway Farms Bakersfield, CA Director Since 2019 | Member Since 1986 Company Background: Brothers Rod and Bob Grimm grew up in Orange County and were growers and marketers of sweet corn and other crops for about 15 years before moving the operation up to Bakersfield and ...
Member Profile Glenn Hirakata Hirakata Farms Rocky Ford, CO Member Since 2013 Hirakata Farms has a legacy in Colorado that dates back more than a century, spans five generations and has survived countless changes in its lifetime. Today, the firm continues to surmount the challenges of being commercially viable in an area that isn’t really ...
In the 1930s, Elton Vessey, who founded Vessey & Co along with his wife, Maudie, developed an innovative transportation technique utilizing a flatbed truck for the harvesting of crops in the Imperial Valley. Today, the Vessey & Co. website (www.vessey.com) devotes a paragraph to the innovation in its retelling of the company history. It notes ...
While there has always been a need for lawyers in the business of farming, it was clearly issues surrounding labor in the 1960s and ‘70s that led to rapid increase in the number of attorneys who practice in this sector. In fact, elsewhere in this issue, Attorney Mike Saqui reveals that he is very proud ...
Mike Saqui grew up the son of a union organizer in heavily-unionized New Jersey expecting that someday he would come back home and help union members take back control of their union from less-than-ethical leaders. Instead, after graduating from a California law school, he met a labor lawyer named Tom Nassif who directed him to ...