Recognizing these pathways to promotion, the California Strawberry Commission created a program that exists nowhere else. More than 3,000 employees are trained annually through regular workshops and field days for ranch managers, crew supervisors and farmers. These workshops provide continuing education and skills development for strawberry farming’s mid-level management workers: nearly all promoted from harvest worker positions. California has the most comprehensive farm labor protections in the country. In addition to federal labor regulations, California is the only state that has a regulatory and enforcement infrastructure, including a system of regional offices throughout the state. Beginning with California’s requirements for supervisor training related to sexual harassment prevention and heat illness prevention, the commission’s training program expanded to recognize the need to provide additional knowledge, understanding and skills, supporting the first steps of professional development for these mid-level managers.