Ventura nonprofit gets grant to expand ag education program
Students for Eco-Education and Agriculture, a Ventura-based nonprofit, received a Specialty Crop Block Grant of $193,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to expand its agriculture education program. The funds will help SEEAG deliver its food science and nutrition program to 10,000 additional students over the next two and a half years, the organization said Read More →
Read More →Calavo Growers president resigning for job at FreshRealm
Santa Paula-based Calavo Growers President and Chief Operating Officer Kenneth Catchot will resign on Jan. 6 and be replaced by Lecil Cole, according to a Dec. 19 Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Catchot will take on a senior management position with FreshRealm, which Calavo holds a 46 percent ownership interest. FreshRealm is a Ventura-based company Read More →
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Chinese tourism, investments in Central Coast grow
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Read More →Proposed Central Coast winery rules likely to stay corked
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Read More →Bill could give Port of Hueneme access to more federal funds
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Read More →Supervisor’s defense of SOAR misleading
By John Krist In her Dec. 2 commentary criticizing a Pacific Coast Business Times article about the effect of Save Open-space and Agricultural Resources on property values, Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks accurately but selectively quotes from Farm Bureau of Ventura County’s Land Use Policy. Her cherry-picking of a single passage from this five-page document Read More →
Read More →Early rains misleading for tri-county drought forecast
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