Items Tagged with 'California Fresh Fruit Association'

The California Fresh Fruit Association hired Clayton Smith as director of government relations. The Bureau of Land Management is moving California state office executive Joe Stout to the agency’s top career position in Washington. Longtime California Citrus Mutual president Joel Nelsen died unexpectedly July 1. 

The California Agricultural Leadership Foundation hired Anna Nicholson as alumni engagement and event manager. Gino Dicaro has departed from the Wine Institute to join the Golden State Water Company as public policy and government relations manager. John Harris, one of California agriculture’s most influential leaders, passed away on July 3. 

In this opinion piece, Ian LeMay of the California Fresh Fruit Association discusses the Specialty Crop Mechanization Assistance Act of 2023.

A House bill introduced Thursday would address one of the top farm bill goals for specialty crop growers by setting up a grant program to ease the cost of adopting automation in their operations.

In this opinion piece, Ian LeMay of the California Fresh Fruit Association highlights the potential AgTech has to be a real difference-maker for growers in California.