Home Grown: High-tech testing protects public from food-borne illness
CBS 13 s April Hettinger examines how local farmers keep their produce safe
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - In Monday s Home Grown, the agriculture industry is always looking for new ways to improve food safety by taking extra preventative measures and improving technology.
Growers are testing produce more frequently to avoid potential outbreaks.
Robots and data collectors can now detect any contaminants before they hit the grocery stores.
They are programmed to run through the field and check each and every crop.
Walt Duflock, Vice President of Innovation for Western Growers Association they are also improving solutions to any food safety violations to help save produce.
In summary
California employment law has become an electrified maze of regulations where walls shift without reason and once-safe paths are suddenly blocked.
By Dave Puglia, Special to CalMatters
Dave Puglia is president and CEO of
, davep@wga.com.
In his sequel to “Alice in Wonderland,” Lewis Carroll depicts a fantastical world in which his heroine finds that, like a reflection in a mirror, everything is reversed, including logic. Since “Through the Looking-Glass” was published in 1871, the idiom has come to describe situations where you find the opposite of what is normal or would be expected.
This frame of reference often pops into my mind as farmers confront California’s many laws and regulations.
Organic Grower Roundtable highlights bright spots and challenges
Leaders from three organic fresh produce companies agree that the outlook for the organic industry is positive heading into the new year, as they explored a wide range of issues during the Organic Grower Summit Roundtable discussion that premiered yesterday.
Moderated by Dave Puglia, president and CEO of Western Growers Association, the roundtable featured Bruce Taylor, president of Taylor Farms/Earthbound Farm; Soren Bjorn, president of Driscoll’s of the Americas; and Vic Smith, president of JV Smith Companies.
Puglia kicked off the discussion asking the three leaders about the effects this tumultuous year has had on the industry and what things might look like in 2021.
December 9, 2020
Leaders from three of the largest and most respected organic fresh produce companies agree that the outlook for the organic industry is positive heading into the new year, as they explored a wide range of issues during the Organic Grower Summit Roundtable discussion that premiered Dec. 9.
Moderated by Dave Puglia, president and CEO of Western Growers Association, the roundtable featured Bruce Taylor, president of Taylor Farms/Earthbound Farm; Soren Bjorn, president of Driscoll’s of the Americas; and Vic Smith, president of JV Smith Cos.
Puglia kicked off the discussion asking the three leaders about the effects this tumultuous year has had on the industry and what things might look like in 2021.