Growing with growers since 1946
  • May 15th 2013 Issue
  • Story by Melissa Hansen
  • Leading by example

    Production manager has nearly 40 years with the same company.

    Servando Rodriguez manages the production of 400 acres of apples and cherries and 450 acres of wine grapes for Sagemoor Farms. PHOTO BY MELISSA HANSEN For an immigrant who ended his formal education at the age of 16, Servando Rodriguez has impressively climbed to the top rungs of the management ladder at Sagemoor Farms. Rodriguez, with the kind of people skills written about in leadership books, can coax the best out of the farm’s more than 300 workers. Sagemoor Farms is a partnership founded in 1968 located in Pasco, Washington, that produces apples, cherries, and wine grapes. As Sagemoor’s production […]

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