Fruit, vegetable growers participate in pandemic web seminar

Credit and financial services company Farm Credit is offering a web seminar featuring produce growers who will talk about the pandemic’s effects on their companies.

The web seminar is from 11 a.m. to noon Eastern on May 21. Registration is online.

The seminar is part of Farm Credit’s From the Farm Gate series of panel discussions, and will feature:

• Gary Van Schuyver, moderator, senior vice president of corporate banking for American AgCredit. His coverage area includes fruits and vegetables;
• Toby Basor, panelist, owner and manager of vegetable grower-packer TKM Bengard Farms, Belle Glade, Fla., and owner and manager of American Berry Co. LLC. Basor is a director of the Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association and chairman of the Florida Vegetable Exchange;
• Sean Gilbert, panelist, president of Gilbert Orchards, a tree fruit company in Yakima, Wash., and co-manager of Sundquist Fruit. He is on the board of the Washington State Tree Fruit Association; and
• Savannah Gillis Turner, panelist, with vegetable grower Gillis Farms, Arrey, N.M.

The panelists will provide brief overviews of their operations and experiences during the pandemic, followed by a moderated discuss and a question-and-answer segment with participants.

For more coverage of how the pandemic has affected the industry, see The Packer's COVID-19 webpage.