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The Western Growers Association (WGA) is an association representing family farmers who grow fresh produce and tree nuts in California, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The issues they advocate on include farm labor regulation, immigration and guest worker programs , environment and sustainability, pest control, and water. [ 4 ]
Sunkist Growers, Incorporated, branded as Sunkist, is an American citrus growers' non-stock membership cooperative composed of over 1,000 members from California and Arizona headquartered in Valencia, California. [1] Through 31 offices in the United States and Canada and four offices outside North America, its sales in 1991 totaled $956 million.
Tahoma (formerly Chambers Lodge) [3] is a census-designated place [1] in Placer and El Dorado counties, California, United States. Tahoma is located along Lake Tahoe 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of Homewood. [3] Tahoma has a population of 1,191 (780 in El Dorado County and 411 in Placer County). Tahoma has a post office with ZIP code 96142, which ...
Tanaka Farms is a family-owned and operated farm and produce market in Irvine, California. Its focus is not wholesale goods production but agritourism , mainly focused towards school-age children on field trips .
Perdue Farms is the parent company of Perdue Foods and Perdue AgriBusiness, based in Salisbury, Maryland. Perdue Foods is a major chicken-, turkey-, and pork-processing company in the United States. Perdue AgriBusiness ranks among the top United States grain companies. Perdue Farms has annual sales in excess of $6 billion. [28]
Growers have been cultivating Cannabis plants in this region since the 1960s, during San Francisco's Summer of Love. Growing cannabis in the Emerald Triangle is considered a way of life, and the locals believe that everyone living in this region is either directly or indirectly reliant on the cannabis industry. [ 3 ]
Calavo Growers, Inc., was founded on January 21, 1924, as the California Avocado Growers' Exchange. Due to overwhelming interest in the avocado, many California growers had planted avocado seeds that had originated in Mexico. Although slow to mature, by 1923 those avocado trees were producing a large enough crop to be marketed.
Mount Rainier [a] (/ r eɪ ˈ n ɪər / ray-NEER), also known as Tahoma, is a large active stratovolcano in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest in the United States. The mountain is located in Mount Rainier National Park about 59 miles (95 km) south-southeast of Seattle . [ 9 ]