Long-time potato and vegetable growers Norm and Marv Worzella of Worzella & Sons, Inc., Plover, Wis., have been inducted into the Wisconsin Potato & Vegetable Growers Association Hall of Fame.
The growers were honored at the industry’s annual awards ceremony held Feb. 3, according to a news release.
The Wisconsin Potato & Vegetable Growers Association Hall of Fame honors lifetime achievement in the development of the state’s potato industry.
According to the release, Clarence Worzella, Norm and Marv’s father started farming with 40 acres in 1953.
Today, the family business grows 1,800 acres of potatoes, along with 3,400 acres of other vegetable crops.
“We are proud of the business’s growth, which is largely attributed to the dedicated employees we’ve had in our 60 years of farming,” Norm Worzella, CEO, said in the release. “We are glad to work alongside our sons, who are the third generation of this business.”
Marv, chief financial officer of the family business, said their father worked side-by-side with them at the start of what has turned into 60 years in farming for the brothers.
The Worzella brothers were honored for their many community-minded contributions, including donating 20 acres of land to the Farming for the Future Foundation for a new Discovery Center to be built along the Highway 39 corridor, in Plover, within the next two years.
