Glennville, Ga.-based Vidalia onion grower G&R Farms has hired Rawls Neville as sales manager.
The industry veteran started his career as a farmhand and has held jobs as an operations manager at both Four Corners Farms and Van Solkema Produce, according to a news release. In 2022 he purchased Van Solkema’s Georgia facility and partnered with Hilliard Farms in an onion and watermelon growing operation.
Neville has worked with G&R Farms since 2015 in a storage and packing relationship through his previous businesses.
“It’s always a blessing to work with committed industry professionals who understand our business and are equally passionate about quality and service,” Steven Shuman, general manager of G&R Farms, said in the release. “Rawls’ attention to detail and his knowledge of all facets of the supply chain from growing to operations, as well as the responsibility of the sales relationship, make him a valuable addition to our team.”
Aside from a brief ag sales tenure at AimTrac, the Vidalia onion business has always been the career path for Neville, the release said.
“I’m lucky that I was able to get to know G&R as a company over the last nine years and learn about their people and their culture,” Neville said in the release. “They are a great group of individuals, and they excel at whatever they do thanks to their deep bench of talent and willing to do the hard work. It made it easy to says yes when they asked me to come work for them, and I can’t wait to grow my experience with them.”
As a third-generation family farm, G&R Farms has grown to over 5,000 acres encompassing several crops with a focus on sweet onions. The operation has been growing, packing, marketing, and shipping sweet onions for nearly seven decades.
