April 14: 2017: Sustainability, Farm Labor, Immigration, ALRB, and Cannibas

Conference Report

Agenda

8:15AM: Check-in and Continental Breakfast

8:45AM: Welcome, Philip Martin, UC Davis and Colin Carter, UC Davis

9:00AM: Sustainability Certification Standards and Farm Labor Compliance

• Chair: Daniel Sumner, UC Agricultural Issues Center and UC Davis
• Nathan Smith, SureHarvest
  • The Landscape for Domestic Labor Certification Programs: Current State & Emerging Issues (presentation)
• Philip Martin, UC Davis
  • Labor Compliance in Fresh Produce: Lessons from Food Safety (paper)
  • Farm Labor Compliance Systems (presentation)
• Ernie Farley, Andrew and Williamson
• Hector Lujan, Reiter Affiliated Companies

10:30AM: Break

10:45AM: Farm Labor: Responding to aging and settling workers

• Chair: William Gould, Chairman emeritus, ALRB
• Philip Martin, UC Davis
• Daniel Carroll, DOL
  • California Crop Worker Characteristics (presentation)
• Daniel Costa, EPI
  • H-2A in the Trump era: Lessons from the H-2B Program (presentation)
• Fritz Roka, University of Florida
  • Evolution of Farm Labor Management Practices in Florida (presentation)
• Don Villarejo, Davis:
  • Will the Supply of Farm Labor Be Shaped by Housing Opportunities, Again?

12:15PM: Lunch

1:15PM: Immigration and Farm Workers

• Chair: Philip Martin, UC Davis
  • Immigration & Farm Labor (paper)
  • California Agriculture: Responding to Fewer Newcomers (presentation)
• What’s next for immigration, Kevin Johnson, UC Davis
• Immigration Policy and Farm Workers, Ed Kissam, WKF
  • Demagoguery and Demographics: Impacts on California Farmworkers, their Employers, and the Communities they Live in (presentation)
• Discussants: Amagda Pérez, UC Davis, Cynthia Rice, CRLA, Cruz Reynoso, UC Davis

2:45PM: Break

3:00PM: ALRB Issues and Cannabis

• Chair: Genevieve Shiroma, ALRB
• Reflections on the ALRB, William Gould, Chairman emeritus, ALRB
• ALRB Today, Julia Montgomery, ALRB GC
• The Economics of Cannabis, Daniel Sumner, UC Davis
  • Economics of Cannabis and Demand for Farm Labor (presentation)
• Farm workers and Cannabis, Ed Blanco, ALRB
• Representing Cannabis Workers, Pete Maturino, UFCW
  • Talking Points: Cannabis (paper)

4:30PM: Adjourn