Fourteen future leaders from Florida’s agriculture community visited the Western Growers Center for Innovation and Technology on Tuesday to hear pitches from the Center’s startups and learn about how the cutting edge of agtech could be implemented in their home state.
Lead by CIT Executive Director Dennis Donohue, Sonia Tighe, FFVA Director of Membership, and Tori Rumenik, FFVA Director of Commodity Services and Supply Chain, the group networked with more than 10 startups during the event.
The members of the Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association’s Emerging Leaders Program who attended were:
- Cameron Allison, Wild Goose Farms
- Ben Collins, H&A Farms
- Colton Davis, Seminis Vegetable Seeds
- Michael Goudreau, PGIM – Ag Finance
- Carter Lambert, Lipman Family Farms
- Bo Meador, Everglades Agricultural Services
- Daniel Miller, Pebbledale Farms
- Cameron Moat, TKI – Crop Vitality
- Eddie Monroy, Duda Farm Fresh Foods
- Robert Ortez, Florida Crystals Corporation
- Mikayla Rogers, Highland Ag Solutions
- Kaylyn Sizemore, Sizemore Farms, Inc.
- Erin Smith, AgAmerica Lending
- Clayton Waterhouse, Plant Food Systems, Inc.
The start-ups who participated in this annual event were: Provision, FarmX, Impello Biosciences, FarmWIse, Ecorobotix, IntelliCulture, Desert Control, FarmNG, PickTrace, iTradeNetwork, AgTools, GVA, AgMonitor, EcoGrow Naturals.
