California Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis met with the Western Growers Board of Directors at the board meeting held in Sacramento, Calif. on April 8, 2024.

Kounalakis spoke to the Board during lunch before the group went to meet with legislators at the Capitol.

Pictured: Stuart Woolf, President and CEO of Woolf Farming & Processing and Western Growers Board of Directors Chair;
Eleni Kounalakis, Lieutenant Governor of California; and Dave Puglia, President and CEO of Western Growers

The Western Growers Board of Directors also had the opportunity to meet with California’s Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot on April 9, 2024.

The Board welcomed CDFA Secretary Karen Ross to dinner, where she delivered remarks about the resilience of California agriculture.