Cannon Michael
President, Bowles Farming Company, Inc.
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Cannon Michael is the President of Bowles Farming Company, Inc. a diversified family farming operation located near Los Banos, California. He is the 6th generation of his family to be involved with the business and lives on the farm with his wife and three sons. Prior to returning to the farm in 1998, Michael worked in commercial real estate in Atlanta, Georgia in both sales and development of industrial properties.
Michael oversees the farming operation and is involved in many agricultural industry and water related associations and boards. He serves as a director on the San Luis Canal Company board of directors and is also a trustee on the Henry Miller Reclamation District board. He has been appointed by Governor Brown to the Merced County designated local authority, a governing board responsible for winding down the affairs of dissolved local redevelopment agencies in Merced and Los Banos.
Michael holds a degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley and is a graduate of the California Agricultural Leadership Program.
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A: Well, this is a really good question and does make one wonder. The short answer is: "To meet the USDA organic regulations, farmers and processors must show they aren’t using GMOs and that they are protecting their products from contact with prohibited substances from farm to table." So while it is pretty easy to find out that GMOs are not allowed to be used in certified "organic" production systems, it is much harder to get information about why their use is prohibited. I am a farmer, the sixth generation in my family to farm here in California. The land and our workers are our [...]
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