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Summit addresses need for affordable farmworkers housing

By   /  Monday, May 19th, 2025  /  Agribusiness, Latest news  /  Comments Off on Summit addresses need for affordable farmworkers housing

The lack of affordable housing for Ventura County’s thousands of farmworkers was the focus of a May 8 conference aimed at developers. “We’re trying to bring awareness to local developers to keep their minds open to serving farmworkers in their projects,” Ken Trigueiro, who sits on the board of House Farm Workers, which put on Read More →

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Summit addresses need for affordable farmworkers housing

By   /  Thursday, May 8th, 2025  /  Agribusiness, Latest news, left, Ventura County  /  Comments Off on Summit addresses need for affordable farmworkers housing

The lack of affordable housing for Ventura County’s farmworkers was the focus of panel discussions at a May 8 program in Santa Paula. “We’re trying to bring awareness to local developers to keep their minds open to serving farmworkers in their projects,” Ken Trigueiro, who sits on the board of House Farm Workers, which put Read More →

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Food Bank CEO gives talk at Apeel HQ on food insecurity

By   /  Wednesday, April 16th, 2025  /  Agribusiness, Latest news, middle, Nonprofits, Santa Barbara County  /  Comments Off on Food Bank CEO gives talk at Apeel HQ on food insecurity

For the longest time, Erik Talkin, the CEO of the Food Bank of Santa Barbara County, thought ending hunger was as simple as just giving people more food. “But just giving people more food does not end hunger… hunger is complicated, hunger is hard because being poor is hard,” Talkin said in a 2019 TedX Read More →

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Agromin, Limoneria partner on commercial-scale composting facility

By   /  Wednesday, April 16th, 2025  /  Agribusiness, Latest news, Subscriber content, Top Stories, Top Story, Ventura County  /  Comments Off on Agromin, Limoneria partner on commercial-scale composting facility

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Hub-Western Growers insurance partnership blooming

By   /  Friday, February 21st, 2025  /  Agribusiness, Latest news, left, Subscriber content  /  Comments Off on Hub-Western Growers insurance partnership blooming

Three months after they joined forces, the Hub International Limited/Western Growers Insurance Services partnership is blooming. With offices throughout California, including the Central Coast, Hub announced in November that it had acquired the retail insurance brokerage business of the Western Growers Association. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Headquartered in Chicago, Hub is a Read More →

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Trump policies impacting Ag in tri-county region

By   /  Friday, February 7th, 2025  /  Agribusiness, Central Coast, Economy, Latest news, middle, Subscriber content, Tri-County Economy  /  Comments Off on Trump policies impacting Ag in tri-county region

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Limoneira completes $1.7M water pumping rights transactions

By   /  Thursday, January 23rd, 2025  /  Agribusiness, Energy, Latest news, Tri-County Public Companies, Ventura County  /  Comments Off on Limoneira completes $1.7M water pumping rights transactions

Santa Paula-based lemon grower Limoneira announced Jan. 23 the successful completion of three water pumping rights transactions in the Santa Paula Basin totaling $1.7 million. The sales, which valued the water pumping rights at $30,000 per acre-foot, underscore the increasing value of water resources in the region and validate the company’s long-term strategy of optimizing Read More →