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REGISTRATION KERFUFFLE: Bayer Fights EPA over Use of Pesticide
For what is believed to be the first time ever, Crop Science, a division of Bayer, has refused a request by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to voluntarily cancel the uses of a crop protection tool in the United States, and is calling for a review of the product’s registration in an administrative law ...
Deep Farmworker Roots Led to Broker Career
Mario Macias Mario Macias Co. Inc. Bakersfield, CA Member Since 1997 Mario Macias’ grandparents first came into the United States from Mexico in the 1940s to work the fields. They lived in Texas and followed the crops working cotton and tomatoes and any other crop where the farmers were hiring workers. They often went ...
THE DROUGHT: So Is It Over?
On March 13, 2016, after several days of heavy rains, especially in Northern California, 103,576 acre feet of water flowered into the Lake Oroville reservoir, which is about 80 miles north of Sacramento. That was the most acre-feet that Lake Oroville had collected in a single day since February 2, 2004. The next day was ...
Charlene Fernandez, representing Arizona’s 4th District in the House of Representatives, which includes Yuma
(Editor’s Note: The questions and answers have been paraphrased for clarity and brevity. Where did you grow up? I was born and raised in Yuma, Arizona. My father worked for the county in the highway department. My mom was a stay-at-home mom. We did not have any connection to agriculture except that I love ...
Insurance Industry Catching Up With Increased Use of Drones
With drone technology and use escalating at a speed much faster than the drones themselves, the aviation insurance industry has lagged behind a bit in figuring out how to offer coverage for drone risks in the commercial sector. Risk Advisory Director Greg Jones of Western Growers Insurance Services, said more drones are coming into use ...
California Water Situation: Paltry Allocation for Some Despite ‘Normal’ Winter
The big El Niño delivered some hefty rain to parts of California and several different storms throughout the state. At the end of this water year (Oct. 1, 2015 –Sept. 30, 2016), California is on tap to receive fairly normal precipitation and snowfall and water content in the snow pack are also near normal. Some ...
LEGISLATOR PROFILE: Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia representing the 56th District, including the Coachella and Imperial valleys
(Editor’s Note: The questions and answers have been paraphrased for brevity and clarity) Eduardo Garcia was first elected to the Assembly in November of 2014. His district is one of the largest in California including much of eastern Riverside County and all of Imperial County. Where did you grow up? Tell us about ...
Tomato Focus Fuels Firm
Joe Bernardi Bernardi & Associates Turlock, CA Member Since 1971 GETTING STARTED: When Joe Bernardi was a senior in college at San Diego State University in the late 1980s, his father asked him what he was going to do for a living. “I told him I was going to come work for him.” At the ...
IRRIGATION EFFICIENCY Plastic Pipe Offers Many Advantages For Row Crops
In the past couple of years, the use of Certa-Set plastic piping has increased tremendously as more and more growers take advantage of this technology which allows for many positives including tremendous labor savings. Craig Stafford, regional manager for Nelson Irrigation, which is headquartered in Walla Walla, WA, said these are relative boom times for ...
Assemblywoman Cheryl Brown represents California’s 47th District, which includes much of San Bernardino County
(Editor’s Note: The questions and answers have been paraphrased for clarity and brevity.) You represent a large portion of San Bernardino County. Is that where you grew up? I am from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which is where I spent my formative years. I grew up on my grandfather and grandmother’s farm where they grew tomatoes ...
Three Legends Pass On
Within about a month of each other, three prominent members of the produce industry in the western half of the United States died. Each had served agriculture well and was a leader in the industry in every sense of that word. George Tanimura (1915-2016) On April 15, George Tanimura, the founding co-chairman of ...
AG FINANCING: Money Is Available…For the Credit Worthy
Unlike during the financial crisis when money was scarce and loans were hard to find, there is currently much liquidity in the market and lenders have plenty of funds to loan. But, as always, the key ingredient in securing a loan is the ability of the borrower to pay it back. According to a couple ...
LEGISLATOR PROFILE: California Assembly Jim Frazier of the 11th District
(Editor’s Note: Some of the questions and answers have been paraphrased for clarity and brevity.) Where were you raised and tell us a little bit about your early life experiences? I grew up in Concord, Calif., but in the middle of high school, my father, who worked for PG&E, was transferred to Fresno. ...
WG 91st ANNUAL MEETING: Kauai Offers Great Backdrop For Exciting Gathering
Just as they did a bit more than 90 years ago for the first time, the movers and shakers in the California and Arizona fresh produce industry have picked an impressive venue in which to hold their annual meeting. On March 9, 1926, it was the newly-opened Planters Hotel in Brawley, CA, that hosted the ...
SUPPLY ISSUES: Future Growth of Organics Could Be Limited by Geography
At the very first Organic Produce Summit—held in Monterey in July—the future of fresh produce in this category was celebrated as demand exceeds supply and premium pricing is very much alive and well. Yet an underlying concern was expressed as producers are not quite sure if supply can keep up with that demand. That was ...
LEGAL AG TRENDS: Pay, Water & Labor Issues Still Top the Charts But Cannabis Work Gaining Momentum
Interviews with a handful of attorneys specializing in agricultural work revealed that there is a new area of law gaining momentum in that sector: cannabis law. While the old standbys—labor issues, water law, wage and hour violations, PACA work—still garner much of the attention, more and more ag attorneys are dealing with issues surrounding the ...
Rynn and Janowsky Turn 30
It was in 1986, with the PACA Trust Law newly enacted and ag labor cases at the forefront that Western Growers attorneys Patricia Rynn and Lew Janowsky started their private law practice with one secretary between them. Thirty years later, PACA cases are still a mainstay for the firm though the volume of labor cases ...
2016 CPS Symposium Highlights
Scientific findings can provide practical solutions to solve many of the food safety challenges the produce sector is facing. Last month, the Center for Produce Safety (CPS) hosted their seventh annual Research Symposium in Seattle. This event covered subjects such as: 1) Listeria, 2) surrogates and indicators, 3) irrigation water management, 4) process validation and ...
PLANT NUTRITION: Formula for Farming in Space Offered to Earthly Growers
If you watched the 2015 movie “The Martian” with Matt Damon stranded on Mars and having to figure out a way to grow food, you have the necessary information to understand the background story for BAM Agricultural Solutions. Glenn Stinebaugh, chief executive officer of the Boca Raton, FL, based firm and a veteran in the ...
HARVESTING INFORMATION New Blue Book Service to Offer New AR Reports Feature
Soon, produce industry credit decision makers will have another tool at their disposal when analyzing the ability of their customers to pay their bills. Blue Book Services is expected to launch a new on-line feature this month that will allow participating companies access to aggregated Account Receivables (AR) data confidentially contributed by other sellers on ...