Community Residents Invited To Celebrate Agriculture and Learn About Berry Farming

October 31, 2016 – Oxnard, California : Reiter Affiliated Companies (RAC) is participating in the 2016 Ventura County Farm Day, an annual event hosted by non-profit Students for Eco-Education …

Oxnard, California : Over 350 people gathered on Sunday, September 18, 2016 for the Sembrando Salud 5K at Oxnard College Park. The event began with at 8:30am with a one-mile fun run for children and a 5K walk/run at 9:00am …

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 dinner in Moorpark.

“If farmworkers …

Source: 24-7 PRESS RELEASE | March 3, 2016

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, Guzman is a senior at …

Source: 24-7 PRESS RELEASE

Source: CENTRAL COAST FARM & RANCH | December 21, 2015

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 of runoff between the rows …

Source: CENTRAL COAST FARM & RANCH

Source: Wall Street Journal | April 23, 2015

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 and small metal baskets attached …

Source: Wall Street Journal

Source: VCSTAR.COM | March 23, 2015

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, businesses and nonprofits for investing …

Source: VCSTAR.COM

Source: NEWYORKTIMES.COM | June 28, 2014

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, the company, also known …

Source: NEWYORKTIMES.COM