“I have been involved with the Center for a few years now, and it has been a great experience. Western Growers is a wonderful resource available to emerging technologies and a great forum for us as producers to share our feedback with the start-ups. I highly recommend getting involved.” – Colby Pereira Vice President, Operations Braga Fresh
NEW TECHNOLOGY.
WESTERN GROWERS CENTER FOR INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY Getting the Job Done Means Looking Ahead.
The WGCIT was created to think ahead and drive solutions to current and anticipated challenges. This year was no different, despite shifting many of the Center’s activities to a virtual format. We took the opportunity to rebuild and improve the WGCIT framework and have made our services more personal and responsive to the needs of our members and the technologists. While we may be moving forward a bit differently, our goal to accelerate the development of agtech solutions for the industry remains the same.
Despite having to shift operations to a virtual format, we have made significant progress in introducing and organizing two strategic initiatives for our members: Continued to move our efforts forward to solve the challenges involved in field harvest automation for specialty crops. This success will help our membership base gain more business leverage. Developed an initiative to accelerate a food safety toolkit. Our goal is to stay at the forefront of planning around prevention and rapid diagnostics.
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