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SUSTAINABILITY: Bayer Symposium Focuses Attention on Issue
Bayer CropScience proactively changed its strategy in the horticultural sector five years ago toward an approach to help growers, shippers and distributors be more profitable. Klaus Koetting, who is the head of the fruit and vegetable and insecticides sector for the German-based company, said the firm determined that the best way to increase sales was ...
Cox Elected WG Chairman; Gray Receives Award of Honor
Larry Cox of Lawrence Cox Ranches, Brawley, CA, was elected chairman of the board of Western Growers at its Annual Meeting in San Diego in November. Cox, who served as senior vice chair this year, took the traditional path of rising through the officer slots to his current position. Serving as his senior vice chair ...
Crawford Transitions Storied Firm
The Harold Crawford Company Bakersfield, California Member Since 1978 Harold Crawford has been an integral part of the Southern San Joaquin Valley produce industry since he moved the headquarters of his Northwest firm to Bakersfield 55 years ago. Today he still comes into the Bakersfield office on a regular basis and is chairman of ...
2015 WG ANNUAL MEETING: Top Chef Shirley Finds Passion in Cooking
Chef Shirley Chung, who is the chef owner of Twenty Eight Modern Chinese Cuisine restaurant in Irvine, Calif., and will be a featured presenter at the Western Growers Annual Meeting in San Diego, did not discover her passion for the culinary arts until her late 20s. In fact, her restaurant name pays homage to the ...
2015 WG ANNUAL MEETING: Varney Sees Huge Economic Growth on the U.S. Horizon
Admittedly going against the grain a bit, Fox business commentator and show host Stuart Varney expects to see a dramatic jump in the America economy over the next several years. “I think we are about to see four to five percent growth on an annual basis,” he told WG&S magazine in mid-August. “We are going ...
California Assembly Member Autumn Burke represents the 62nd District, a largely coastal swath of Los Angeles County
(Editor’s Note: The answers and questions have been paraphrased for brevity and clarity.) Autumn Burke was elected to the California Assembly as a freshman in 2014, which made her part of the first mother-daughter team to ever serve as California legislators. Her mother, Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, had a distinguished career as a Los Angeles ...
Western Growers’ COMPENSATION SURVEY More Info; More Participants
With 9 percent more participants and the data becoming more robust, the Western Growers HR Practices and Compensation Surveys are a must-have for both large and small companies doing business in the fresh produce industry. Karen Timmins, WG senior vice president of human resources, said that with 53 job titles defined, classified and analyzed from ...
A “Date” with Destiny
Albert P. Keck II was named after his grandfather, who was responsible for bringing the Keck family to the Coachella Valley and introducing the business of agriculture into the family tree.
2015 WG ANNUAL MEETING: Bob Gray Chosen as Award of Honor Recipient
Bob Gray, who will be honored by Western Growers in the fall for his body of work and accomplishments over the 40-year career in agriculture. He is clearly enjoying the current chapter in his life which has him in a teaching role as he helps develop leaders in the agricultural realm in his position as ...
Sustainable Groundwater Management Act Implementation
The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) will be holding several public listening sessions to receive comments regarding the implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) over the next several months.