Growers are facing a multitude of threats, including chronic labor shortages and mounting regulatory and marketplace demands. Western Growers believes that harvest automation will be essential to helping growers adapt to these unprecedented challenges. The Global Harvest Automation Initiative aims to automate 50 percent of the fresh produce harvest within 10 years through a series ...
By Walt Duflock, Vice President of Innovation The Western Growers Innovation team is making good progress on the Global Harvest Automation Initiative as we continue to target sustainable food security by getting all the crop acres that are planted harvested. Our target is to automate 50 percent of fresh specialty crop harvest in 10 years. ...
The Organic Growers Summit (OGS) will be held tomorrow and Thursday in Monterey, Calif., and all interested attendees can register on-site at the conference. As this year’s primary sponsor, Western Growers (WG) will play a key role in numerous event activities that focus on innovation and scaling growing operations: Wednesday, December 1 A two-part Educational ...