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  • July 2011 Issue
  • Story by Richard Lehnert
  • Titan Farms

    As the name suggests, it’s big, home to 4,900 acres of peaches.

    Amancio Palma, right, manages the huge crew of more than 400 H-2A workers who work in the peach orchards. With Chalmers Carr III, they look over peaches ripening in mid-May. Richard Lehnert When you have 4,900 acres of peaches and 600,000 trees to manage, how do you keep track of everything—the planting, pruning, thinning, spraying, irrigating,  multiple pickings,  packing, and the 520 workers doing all these tasks? Well, you could add another 700 acres of bell peppers and broccoli—just to keep everyone busy in the off season! Titan Farms in Ridge Spring, is the largest peach farm not only in […]

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