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  • May 1st 2012 Issue
  • Story by Richard Lehnert
  • Need a lawyer?

    Andy Ferguson wants to combine law, fruit growing, and industry leadership.

    A group of Young Leaders listens to Don Kraemer, acting deputy director of the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, during the leadership luncheon. Photo courtesy of U.S. Apple Association Andy Ferguson is a 25-year-old fruit grower’s son, and next month, he’ll get his law degree. He wants to make a career as an attorney but keep his ties to the fruit farm—and to the apple industry. “No work is below me,” he said about what he does on the farm, and he plans to keep that attitude as he grows into other roles. He wants to be […]

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