Tag: Company History

Andrew Cummings has been growing potatoes his whole life, but he isn’t farming the same land his parents did.

Varieties in the market that reduce the risks in cultivation and achieve a good return. This is the most important objective ...

Brent Bydevaate has taken over the family potato farm and is now running it himself. Growing up Brent Bydevaate always ...

A life in farming seemed to be preordained for Mike Telford. “I grew up in Utah in Bountiful. My father ...

The synergy creating the farm’s well-being results from a process of discovery beginning 30 years ago, with Rockey’s uncle.

Precision engineering is woven into Jacob van den Borne's business operations. New techniques and applications will also be launched in 2022. ...

In 2004, Steve and Bonnie Mackenzie-Grieve thought they were ready to slow down a little. Their two southern Alberta businesses ...

In 1951, a mere nine years after the government’s first potato dehydration facility began operations, a group of potato farmers ...

The LaJoie family has always been farmers—at least for as many generations as anyone cares to mention. But they haven’t ...

George Crapo grew up in Parker, Idaho, where, from a young age, he developed a deep and abiding love of farming ...

Four and five generations on, August’s descendants now own and operate Heartland Farms, which has become one of the largest ...

Mack Farms is a member of Fresh Solutions Network, which has helped not only to expand the reach of their ...

For more than 50 years, Lindsay has been a pioneer provider of irrigation and water management solutions. From the strength ...

In 1954, Richard Reinke manufacturing began ag and commercial equipment on his family farm in south-central Nebraska. Many of his innovations, ...

Founded in 1955 by Leroy Thom and J. G. Love, T-L Irrigation had already become an established manufacturer of gravity ...

Some potato farms in Aroostook County, Maine have histories dating back to the early 1800s. Daniel Corey’s operation is not ...

Massey Ferguson, a worldwide brand of AGCO, announced a fresh new look for its iconic MF Triple Triangle logo and its ...

This article appears in the December 2021 issue of Potato Grower SouthWind Farms has been around for 21 years, but brothers Robert ...

This article appears in Potato Grower’s 2021 Idaho Annual issue. Conn Crapo is Potato Grower’s 2021 Idaho Seed Grower of the Year ...

Three keys to making the plan work

By using frozen food technology, the brothers opened the first McCain Foods production facility in their hometown of Florenceville, New Brunswick, in ...

Andrei Sinitsyn started the potato business back in the 1990s:

Robert Daugherty began Valmont Industries in 1946 in Valley, Neb., with $5,000 and a dream. Of course, it wasn’t known as ...

That’s how Karlene Hardy describes the people from across the country she and her husband Randy have gotten to know ...

He didn’t grow up in Idaho. He didn’t even begin his farming career in Idaho