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Field manager working and overseeing watermelon and forage crop production. Duties include recordkeeping, labor management, logistics and asset management.

Waitsburg Wa

Agricultural production consulting, Hay product marketing and brokerage sevices.

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Large scale agricultural enterprise growing and harvesting sweet peas, green beans, sweet corn, and blueberries for domestic and international markets. Annual revenue exceeding $27M.; Deliver complete oversight, monitoring and management for 12,000 acres of agricultural production. Handle full array of related duties, including coordinating production, managing delivery, matching crop to customer specifications, managing property, overseeing farming, field mapping, handling schedules, applying pesticide, fertility treatments, and more. Oversee financial elements of farm production, including cost analysis, budgeting, and production assessment. Provide leadership, direction and mentoring for large teams of harvester operators, mechanics and hired hands. Assure smooth running operation, team effort, and strong revenues. Provide tireless, committed work effort, covering 300 miles daily, and working 19 hours per day during harvest.Boosted crop harvest results by 18% via improved techniques and increased communication.Achieved "high grade rate" for numerous products during extended, 186 day harvest season.Facilitated strong communication between field representatives, contracted growers, field teams, HR and more.Sharpened production levels via improvements in mapping and statistical analysis for planting and harvesting.Regained contracted acres from competition through aggressive, straightforward and honest practices.Oversee 12,000 acres of vegetable production across entire states of Washington and Oregon.

Producers of potato, wheat, cabbage seed, silage corn and organic grass hay for local market sales. 1500 acres, with annual sales of $900K.; Provided full range of farm management services, including scheduling and implementation of planting, irrigation, harvesting, selection of seeds, negotiating ground leasing, trucking, ground preparation, field monitoring, pesticide and fertility application, equipment maintenance, planting, and harvesting. Maintained record keeping, property management, contracting, and customer service. Handled employee hiring and management. Assured that 2000 acre production was steady, growing, and increasingly profitable.Boosted corn production rates by 36%.Lifted wheat production levels by 23%.Slashed labor costs by 13%.Strengthened cost reductions via improved operations and equipment maintenance.

Growers and harvesters of fresh fruit, nuts and Christmas trees. 1200 acres farmed, with products sold in national and international fresh markets. Annual sales of $2.5M.; Provided full and complete management duties for major domestic and international supplier of produce. Hired, screened and managed employees. Handled building permitting and maintenance, as well as all capital expenditures. Maintained budgeting and fiscal planning. Took care of scheduling for harvests, trucking, transport, pesticide, fertility, planting and more. Handled deliveries, orders and containers. Provided team training. Assured regulatory compliance. Lifted net profits from 6% to 21% via improvements in irrigation, fertility and crop protection.Revamped payment and monitoring systems, resulting in reduced administrative costs and improved productivity.Boosted rhubarb marketability by 50% via improvements in refrigeration, harvesting and labor.Boosted blueberry yields by 25% via fertility controls.Enhanced production via introduction of bumblebee colonies.Provided ceaseless efforts at production improvements, including 20 hour work days during harvest.

Agricultural raw product producers of corriander, parsley, peppers, alfalfa hay, wheat, potato, garlic, garlic seed, onions, mint, oats and more. Produce sold in national, international & organic markets. Annual production of $25M.; Oversaw the production and harvest of wide range of produce. Enhanced customer base with innovative marketing strategies and well-received customer service. Provided long and short term strategies toward increased growth. Managed multiple sites, including full array of equipment acquisition and maintenance, crop improvements, regulatory compliance, and especially high rates of production. Hired, trained, and motivated large staff of over 500 employees.Developed 9,000 farmable acres from land what was previously dust and sagebrush.Skyrocketed total annual revenue from $1.5M to $25.7M.Designed and implemented water supply & delivery systems, ultimately reaching 23,500 ac/ft of water production.Designed, developed and implemented new irrigation systems, yielding strong increases in crop production.Invented garlic harvesting machine, reducing harvest staff from 500 to 14, slashing costs from $1 per lb. to $.07.Implemented GPS tracking and other technological innovations, yielding heightened efficiency and reduced costs.Slashed fertilizer/pesticide costs by 21%.Achieved net profit scale of 19% year after year for 15 years.Reached #1 position in Western US garlic seed production.Raw product and ingredient procurement and input cost controls