The Fruit + Vegetable 40 Under 40 Awards honor 40 outstanding individuals making their marks in the industry.

These 40 young professionals represent the best in the industry. The Fruit + Vegetable 40 Under 40 Class of 2021 will be honored at the Great Lakes Fruit, Vegetable & Farm Market EXPO, and recognized in the October 2021 issues of Fruit Growers News and Vegetable Growers News.

Thank you to the sponsors who support the 40 Under 40 recognition program: Corteva Agriscience, Stokes Seeds, FMC Corporation, BioWorks, and AgBiome Innovations.

Nominations for the Class of 2022 will open in December.

• Class of 2018
• Class of 2019
• Class of 2020
• Class of 2021

Class of 2021

Abolfazl Hajihassani

University of Georgia

Amy Miller

Route 9 Cooperative/Ohio State University

Andy Fles

Shady Lane Cellars

Angelos Deltsidis

University of Georgia

Ashley Hoppers

University of Georgia Extension

Ben Rice

Rice Fruit Company

Benjamin Phillips

MSU Extension

Brian Pedersen

Plenty

Clark MacAllister

University of Georgia Extension

Cody Guenther

Lakeside Foods

Colby Pereira

Braga Fresh Family Farms

Corey Harmon

Titan Farms

David Harrell

Sanoca Farms

Derek Orsenigo

Grower’s Management, Inc and Orsenigo Farms, Inc

Doug Gibson

Mount Adams Fruit

Elizabeth Malchoff

Empire Drip Supply

Elizabeth Wittenbach

Wittenbach Orchards, LLC

Ethan Lineberger

Maple Springs Farm, LLC

Gabe Spurgeon

South Baldwin Farms

Greg Kugel

Kugel Farms, LLC

Jaspreet Sidhu

University of California Cooperative Extension

Joe Ferguson

Ferguson's Orchards/Ferguson's Pepin Heights Orchards

Jordon Walsworth

Golden Stock Farms, LLC

Kimberly Post

University of Georgia Extension

Kyle Flack

Bell’s Farm

Lav R Khot, PhD

Washington State University, College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences

Lina M. Quesada-Ocampo

North Carolina State University

Mark Evans

Evans Brothers Fruit Company

Michael Schwieterman

Plenty

Noah Robbins

Ark Foods

Olivia Saunders

UNH Extension

Patricia Contreras

Dole Food Company

Rebecca Titus

Titus Farm

Sam Oschwald Tilton

Lakeshore Technical College

Sebastien Boyer

FarmWise Labs, Inc.

Sedrick Rowe

Rowe Organic Farms, LLC

Stephanie Kipp

Kipp Farm Services

Steven Janoski

Janoski Farms Inc.

Trey Enloe

Lewis Creek Farm

William Harleston Towles

Rooting Down Farms