On this episode of Profile, Todd and I are have the pleasure to be joined by two members of the Wysocki family; enterprising founder, Louis, and his business savvy son and the current CEO, Russell.
As always, this episode starts with some history, but given the privileged opportunity to interview Louie, we take a deeper dive into some history of our community. He shares how the Wysocki family went from plowing a 50 acre field with a car to now tending over to 25,000 acres with high-tech precision equipment. Louis’ efforts not only grew the family farm, but empowered the greater distribution of Wisconsin potatoes throughout the country. Because of his leadership roles in numerous trade organizations, Louis was recently recognized as one of the 50 most innovative and influential individuals in the industry by Potato Grower Magazine.
The Wysocki Family of Companies is more than just a produce farm. They also include a separate entity for storage, processing and packaging, called Paragon Potato Farms, and one for sales and marketing called RPE. As the current CEO, Russell will share with us his vision for the future and how they plan to use water conservation and solar energy to take a leading role in sustainable operations.
This is surely not an episode to miss.
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