WGA EXPANDS COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT
Jeff Janas |
Today, Western Growers (WG) announced the appointment of Jeff Janas as its new communications manager in its Irvine office.
Jeff Janas |
Today, Western Growers (WG) announced the appointment of Jeff Janas as its new communications manager in its Irvine office.
Juan Carlos Oseguera, a San Francisco State University alumnus, is a published film critic and has won awards in writing, producing and directing.
Juan Carlos Oseguera |
Raised in the California Central Valley by parents who were migrant farmworkers, Oseguera set out to film the 2009 march and document the farm workers’ struggle as a lesson to be learned and a voice to be heard.
Thursday, September 5 @ 9-11 a.m. at Veterans of Foreign Wars – 58 Monterey St., San Juan Bautista
Contact Abby Taylor-Silva at 831-422-8844 or Parry Klassen at 831-240-9533 with any questions.
A Table Grape Harvester packs a box of Thompson Seedless grapes for market. |
On July 10, 2013, Lupe Garcia, an employee of Gerawan Farming, Inc. filed a “petition for intervention” in the Mandatory Mediation and Conciliation (MMC) case involving Gerawan and United Farm Workers of America (UFW) The ALRB issued a decision dismissing the employee’s petition as he was not a party to the MMC proceedings under the Board’s regulations. The Board further found that, even if the standards for intervention in civil court cases were applicable to MMC cases, Garcia did not qualify for intervention under those standards.
Chinese Ag Officials Join West Hills Community College Staff in Coalinga. |
He Caiwen |
Assemblyman Jim Patterson |
Assemblyman Jim Patterson hosted the Citrus Industry Town Hall this morning at the Fresno County Farm Bureau office to discuss the current state of the Asian Citrus Psyllid presence in California, the quarantine situation, how Fresno County is preparing for the possible migration of ACP into the county, and how agencies, growers, and the state and federal governments are cooperating to control its spread in California.
Dr. Beth Grafton-Cardwell |
Dr. Beth Grafton-Cardwell, UC IPM Specialist and Research Entomologist, recently studied ACP found in Texas and Florida and reported that local agencies here are following Florida’s lead in organizing grower groups and local neighbors to treat their trees simultaneously.
Victoria Hornbaker |
While there is no cure for HLB thus far, researchers are looking at altering the ACP so it cannot pick up HLB disease, inserting a gene so it cannot carry HLB, and creating disease-resistant plants.
Joel Nelson |