Data Cultivation Workgroup Meeting
Scheduled Meetings:
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST
Discover the Power of a Data Cultivation Workgroup in the Produce Industry!
Join us for a series of meetings that dive into the benefits of establishing a Data Cultivation Workgroup.
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Enhance your Knowledge of Data: We will start the working group with a series of presentations on how you can leverage your data, with potential applications from other industries.
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Risk Assessment and Management: Learn how the data you are collecting can be leveraged to conduct better risk assessments and implement effective risk management strategies.
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Improved Collaboration: Collaborate between industry, academia, and other organizations on how data can be used to advance food safety. This data working group can be a platform for members to share their learnings and information about their learnings.
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Working on Data Projects: We will collaboratively work on projects to advance data science in the produce industry.
Speakers
Gustavo A. Reyes joined Western Growers in December 2023. Before joining Western Growers, he worked for 2.5 years in the food industry where he implemented and managed food safety/quality systems. Gustavo completed his Ph.D. in Food Science and an M.S. in Applied Statistics from the University of Illinois, where he worked on building process models to advance food safety for produce systems. Gustavo earned his bachelor’s in food science from the University of Nebraska in 2017.
At Western Growers Gustavo is responsible for the coordination of the CA LGMA amendment process, generating technical resources for our members, and supporting data analysis and data sharing effort through GreenLink®.
In 2000, Steve Brazeel founded SunTerra Produce, which has grown from a one-person produce brokerage firm into an industry-leading, full-service platform handling sales, marketing, farming, food safety, harvesting, storage, and distribution activities for specialty crop producers on over 10,000 acres throughout the US and Mexico. Born out of SunTerra‘s participation in the USDA’s ground-breaking Farmers to Families Food Box program, Project FoodBox was launched in 2020. Since the program’s inception, the SunTerra/Project FoodBox teams have delivered over 85 Million pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables to communities in need through its network of food banks, community organizations, and health care plans.
Elevated Foods, founded by Mr. Brazeel in 2020, was recently awarded a $20M grant as part of USDA’s Partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities program. Elevated was formed to bring more profit to farmers by incentivizing the adoption of new technologies & practices and providing technical support to help make them more efficient and resilient.
Featuring Karen Ross
Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture
KAREN ROSS was appointed Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture on January 9, 2019, by Governor Gavin Newsom.
In re-appointing Secretary Ross, Governor Newsom cited her unmatched leadership experience in agricultural issues nationally, internationally and in California, in areas including environmental stewardship, climate change adaptation and trade.
Secretary Ross was initially appointed by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. in 2011.
For more information please contact Gustavo Reyes
greyes@wga.com | 949.294.5441
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Jason Resnick joined Western Growers in 2003 and now serves as Senior Vice President and General Counsel. His responsibilities include overseeing the organization’s legal department, trade practices department, H-2A Services division, and corporate governance as Western Growers’ corporate secretary. Jason provides advice and counsel on various legal, business and policy matters. Jason has primary staff liaison responsibility over the Western Growers Board of Directors, and the WG Executive and Labor Committees.
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