Without farmworkers, Ventura County wouldn’t be the fertile, agricultural paradise it is. And those workers need low-cost housing, John Krist, CEO of the Ventura County Farm Bureau, said Thursday at the From Field to Fork […] Read More

July 30, 2016

24-7 PRESS RELEASE

Singled out among several outstanding youth, 18-year-old Glenda Guzman has been chosen as this year’s Youth of the Year by the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Oxnard and Port Hueneme. A seven-year Club member, […] Read More

March 3, 2016

CENTRAL COAST FARM & RANCH

For generations, the typical strawberry field has been watered the same way early in the growing season: sturdy, rotating sprinklers on aluminum pipes, spraying jets of water 10 feet in the air and sending rivers […] Read More

December 21, 2015

Wall Street Journal

OXNARD, Calif.—A 14-arm, automated harvester recently wheeled through rows of strawberry plants here, illustrating an emerging solution to one of the produce industry’s most pressing problems: a shortfall of farmhands. Harnessing high-powered computing, color sensors […] Read More

April 23, 2015

VCSTAR.COM

The Ventura County Community Foundation will recognize seven individuals and two organizations at its Fifth Annual Community Leadership Awards luncheon at the Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach on April 23. The Community Leadership Awards honor residents, […] Read More

March 23, 2015

NEWYORKTIMES.COM

ODEMIRA, Portugal — Portugal may have 15 percent unemployment, but that does not mean that Reiter Affiliated Companies, an American fruit producer, can find local people to pick berries on its 76-hectare farm here. Last year, […] Read More

June 28, 2014