OFI 931: The Best Cranberries Float To The Top | FFA SAE Edition | Tyler Gardner | Pittsville High School FFA

11/25/20 by Matt Brechwald

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SHOW NOTES INTRODUCING TYLER GARDNER! Imagine for a moment that you are the nation’s highest achiever in a very niche crop. What could you do with that? Well, Tyler Gardner, the 2020 National Proficiency Winner in fruit production is that person. Tyler has grown up on a cranberry farm in Pittsville, Wisconsin. This is the largest cranberry producing county in the largest cranberry producing state in the U.S., and Tyler is right in the middle of it. Gardner Cranberries has been referred to as “the biggest little guy” in cranberries. Tyler’s family has vertically integrated their portion of the cranberry business from the growing of the fruit to the production of the concentrate. For many years, Tyler has been working in every aspect of cranberry production. Today he finds himself at the University Of Wisconsin, River Falls, studying agriculture business in preparation for a career farming this interesting and timely fruit. Tyler wants to set off to work for one of the big players in agricultural industry after graduation and then find his way back to the family farm at some point in the future. All of Tyler’s efforts to this point have led him to national recognition, and it will be fun to see where this story goes.

This is a very interesting podcast. I learned a lot about cranberry farming which I really didn’t know much at all about.