Incoming IFTA President Neal Manly Neal Manly, chief marketing officer with Willow Drive Nursery in Ephrata, Washington, will take over as president of the International Fruit Tree Association at its next annual conference in February in Tasmania, Australia. Manly began attending IFTA meetings soon after joining Willow Drive in 1995. He had earned a bachelor’s degree in agronomy at Brigham Young University in Utah, and an MBA with an emphasis on agribusiness from Santa Clara University in California, and appreciated the IFTA’s scholarly approach. He found its programs to be more cutting-edge and in-depth than the regional horticultural meetings he […]