GlobalG.A.P.
GLOBALG.A.P.
GLOBALG.A.P.
GLOBALG.A.P. is a leading global certification program whose mission is to bring farmers and retailers together to produce and market safe food, protect scarce resources, and build a sustainable future. With more than 700 certified products and over 200,000 certified producers in more than 135 countries, we have a sound foundation that is both solid enough to build trust and integrity and flexible enough to spur innovation and excellence. For fruit and vegetable production, we offer a range of farm assurance solutions to meet market needs, including certificates recognized by GFSI and required by global export markets. GLOBALG.A.P. North America staff are devoted to providing support within the USA and Canada markets.
BioSafe Systems
At BioSafe Systems, we pride ourselves on being innovators of sustainable environmental practices and products. Since 1998, we have led the industry in developing effective, regenerative, and biodegradable solutions to protect crops, water, and people across North America. Every day, our employees engage with regulatory agencies, researchers, and customers to ensure we remain at the forefront of service and innovation while continuing in our mission to provide simple, sustainable, and effective solutions.
BioSafe Systems is a true ‘Field to Fork’ partner in all stages of food production, with innovative and proven effective pest control solutions, products, and services. Training, technical services, equipment, and on-site support are essential components of our food safety and facility sanitation programs. We offer many support programs and resources for food safety, quality, and production roles while helping navigate the ever-changing landscape of regulations, restrictions, and inspections.
We take pride in our outstanding customer service. In addition to numerous technical service managers throughout the country, BioSafe Systems has a complete Service and Equipment Department that can help with the challenges each unique operation may have.
Monterey County Farm Bureau
Monterey County Farm Bureau is the private, nonprofit association of farmers and ranchers throughout Monterey county, located on the California Central Coast. Founded in 1917, Farm Bureau serves as a collective voice for farmers and ranchers and provides information, advocacy, benefits, and services. Farm Bureau collaborates with other agricultural organizations to fulfill its purpose of working for the solutions to the problems of the farm and ranch, the farm home, water resources, the environment, and the rural community.
Green Rubber—Kennedy Ag
For over 30 years Green Rubber – Kennedy Ag has been your best source for agricultural and industrial supplies. Our product lines include custom conveyor belts, custom urethane rollers & parts, pumps, hoses, valves, nozzles, fittings, tanks, trailers, and more. We have five locations to serve you including Salinas, Watsonville, Greenfield, Modesto, and Yuma.
AgTech Insight
AgTech Insight is a global leader in full-spectrum agriculture technology consulting services. We have an elite team of subject matter experts around the world, each of whom has a unique skill set to help our clients execute both short and long-term strategies. We deliver distinctive consulting and advisory expertise to a variety of companies and large corporates, governments, investors, farmers, industry leaders, and more. Our team tracks over 3,000 digital AgTech companies around the globe and get past the smoke and mirrors to work with real companies to make a huge impact on the world’s food supply. In 2014 we saw the Agriculture and Tech industries starting to collide and were inspired to start AgTech Insight as a bridge to help these two very different industries collaborate. We specialize in sharing deep, on-the-ground experience in the emerging AgTech space that is necessary for success in this evolving industry. http://www.agtechinsight.com
Heavy Connect
Heavy Connect develops easy-to-use mobile software to simplify agricultural field and facility operations. Customers can use the HeavyConnect platform to make standards compliance (like FSMA or OSHA) easy with automatic documentation informed by current regulatory guidelines. Managers are equipped with operation-wide data insights to make smarter decisions in real-time. Founded in Salinas in 2015, HeavyConnect’s mission is to provide field-ready software that simplifies customer workdays and allows growers to get back to what they do best: growing high quality, safe food. Most recently, HeavyConnect released a new way to digitally track and document worker training in order to stay OSHA-compliant, as well as functionality to enable remote audits.
RC Farms
R.C. Farms was formed in 1971 with only 350 acres. Currently, more than 10,000 crop acres are grown in the Salinas and San Joaquin Valleys for multiple Shippers. In 1986, RC Packing was formed as an FLC for custom harvesting. The Caprara Family has a legacy of service and passion growing and harvesting the safest and highest quality produce.
Braga Fresh
A vertically integrated company, Braga Fresh combines innovation with tradition to grow, harvest, and ship fresh vegetables worldwide. Founded in 1928, the company’s certified organic farming program has expanded over the last 20 plus years; adhering to the highest food safety standards to bring expertise and authenticity to the market through the Braga Farms and Josie’s Organics brands. Learn more at JosiesOrganics.com
Carlson Ag Food Safety Consulting
Carlson Food Safety Consulting provides "right-size" services that include food safety and CA Water Board requirements to fit company skills, third-party audit certification goals, and ultimately open markets.
Opening markets by creating quick, simple food and water safety programs that are easy to maintain and satisfy buyer and customer requirements. This includes FSMA, CA Water Board, third-party audit certification, and local regulatory requirements.
Most operations, producers, processors, and packers already incorporate good food and water practices and need only document them efficiently.
I can help you find the "right-size compliance" for your operation, connect your people with the right training, and balance document needs to fit the scale of your operation.
My business model is to provide assistance until independence is achieved, but I am always available for questions. Audit application guidance is always Gratis.
If I can’t be of service, I may know others who can meet your needs. I am an active participant in the water community and fresh-cut produce industry through teaching and industry events.
ISO 9001 • FSSC 22000:2015 • SQF Practitioner • HACCP • PCQI • FSVP • HARPC • GlobalG.A.P. GFSI • USDA Harmonized GAP • PSA Grower Training • PSR • CA Water Resources DO1 • AWIA (America's Water Infrastructure Act) • Water Quality Ag Order.
www.linkedin.com/in/cathycarlson
Ph (831) 818-4109
Nutrien Ag Solutions
Nutrien Ag Solutions is the largest retailer of plant protection and fertilizer products in the world with over 2000 locations in North and South American and Australia. Crops and growers serviced by Nutrien Ag Solutions branches and our Pest Control Advisors and Crop Consultants are diverse numberings over 440 in the West. We help growers achieve yields using the most sustainable solutions possible, offering a wide selection of products and services. Sustainable solutions are customized based on unique needs and geared toward specific challenges of our growers. Our whole-acre sustainable ag solutions increase ROI by measuring positive environmental outcomes while making efforts traceable from farm to market. Products, practices, and predictability combine with tangible proof to deliver increased profit and production for our growers. With balanced practices and integrated inputs season after season, our products and practices work together to help growers achieve sustainable success. Our core values of safety and integrity encourage employees to be Home Safe, Every Day and Say What We Do and Do What We Say. Nutrien Ag Solutions is committed to helping growers grow food safely.
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Tripp Communications System
“How did one of the world’s largest berry companies discover
an effective solution to better communications with major
purchasing clients? “
We provide high-quality, premier audio and video communications systems that greatly improve your group tours, presentations, training sessions, language interpretation, and much more. Each individual in your group will hear equally well with crystal clear clarity. Also, our systems can provide two-way interaction that allows any individual to ask questions and be heard by all. Your tours, presentations, meetings, and training sessions will be much more successful when everyone can communicate.
Agro Thrive, Inc.
AgroThrive is built on the belief that all organic wastes can be converted to safe and nutritious organic fertilizers.
Dragan Macura (M. Sc.) founder and CEO, has taken his passion for food safety, organic integrity, and environmental stewardship to a professional level establishing AgroThrive Inc. in Salinas Valley, CA in 2006. Progressive Digestion Process (PDP), the main technology behind AgroThrive, is the scientific bridge between industrial food waste and liquid organic fertilizer in 21 days. PDP harnesses the digesting power of microbes in spoiled organic wastes, creates biological heat that eliminates all pathogens, and reduces reliance on chemicals in soil. Our organic ingredients include concentrated plant proteins, fish and seafood waste, and other nutrients. PDP has the unique ability to convert the most difficult to handle organic materials into beneficial organic fertilizers. Thus, PDP is an innovative technology closing the loop between food waste and food production. AgroThrive is used on both certified organic and conventional acreage. AgroThrive is proud to play a significant part in environmental stewardship. The quality of the food we eat is very important, and so is the impact we leave on the environment. That’s why our goal is to build a better world for us today and for our children and grandchildren tomorrow by reducing reliance on heavy chemical and pesticide use in agriculture. Our facility in Salinas Valley, CA is also completely solar-powered.
D’Arrigo California - Andy Boy Produce
From the day the company was founded in 1923 by two immigrant brothers Stefano and Andrea D’Arrigo, from Messina, Sicily, innovation has been its hallmark. Andy Boy broccoli, broccoli rabe, fennel, and romaine hearts are the company’s mainstays, but D’Arrigo California is also able to provide cross-dock, consolidation, custom growing, and commercial cooling services with the goal of improving efficiencies for our valued customers.
With third-generation D’Arrigo family members at the helm of our West Coast operations, you can be sure that the traditions of being good stewards of the land continue to be carried out by our dedicated family of almost 2,000+ employees. Our goal is to continue our legacy as a sustainable grower, packer, shipper who nourishes consumers daily around the world with quality Andy Boy produce to encourage a healthy lifestyle.
Factor IV Solutions, LLC
Factor IV Solutions, LLC. was founded in 2013 and is based out of Atascadero, CA. The company name refers to the four factors of sanitation Time, Temperature, Action, and Chemistry. While Factor IV Solutions is a leader in sanitation support services, we pride ourselves in supporting solutions for the entire food safety program. Our growing internal team and strategic partnerships have us solving in-field and processing challenges daily across North America.
Factor IV now has a dedicated team for second-party support of GAP’s, Harvester Sanitation, and Cut to Scale tracking with-in field employee support to help turn the data collected into knowledge and actions.
Xgenex Labs
Xgenex Labs patent-pending technology solves food production challenges created by bacteria and pathogens. Xgenex manufactures and distributes a comprehensive portfolio of proprietary EPA, FDA, USDA approved antimicrobial chemicals. Xgenex patent-pending XactimusTM technology and equipment optimizes control, minimizes cost, and provides verifiable documentation of intervention program application 24/7/365.
Our passion is a technology that eliminates challenging bacterial problems in food production.
Nano Reagents
NanoReagents is developing accurate, easy-to-use, rapid methods for detecting bacteria and genetic biomarkers in food and food production environments. Imagine a test that is so simple it can be quickly performed in the field to provide important information about food pathogens or other organisms of interest. NanoReagents is working to develop exactly that capability to be used by growers, harvesters, and others who are in a role of responsibility for safe food production. NanoReagents technology will provide decision-makers with actionable information at the point and time that answers are needed - in the field.
iFood DS
Our company started as part of iDecisionSciences(iDS), a Seattle-based consulting practice — whose principals first came to the produce food safety scene in 2006 following the outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 associated with spinach.
In the ensuing years, iDS worked closely with national and regional produce associations to develop food safety best practices and metrics for leafy greens as well as other major produce commodities. Out of this work, iFoodDecisionSciences, Inc. was launched to provide software solutions that produce companies need to manage the extensive data requirements of their food safety programs.
iFoodDecisionSciences (iFoodDS) was formed in 2013
in recognition of the industry’s need to move beyond static safety records to a dynamic platform that could enable proactive safety practices and real-time management of risks across the food supply chain for operations of any scale.
The combined company now offers a comprehensive food supply chain platform for food safety, traceability, and quality management. iFoodDS enables hundreds of participants across the global food supply chain – grower/shippers, packers, processors, distributors, foodservice and grocery retailers – to optimize the safety, quality, and value of their offerings with real-time supply chain visibility and the confidence they are supporting industry best practices.
This is ultimately about the consumer. iFoodDS software systems promote the advancement of continuous food safety and quality improvements on the farm, in processing facilities, and throughout the supply chain so consumers can reach for these healthy foods with confidence.