Growing with growers since 1946
  • December 2012 Issue
  • Story by Richard Lehnert
  • Worried about labor

    Blueberry grower Steve Hunt heads Michigan State Horticultural Society.

    Steve Hunt, the incoming president of the Michigan State Horticultural Society, grows only one kind of fruit—blueberries—about 110 acres worth. He’s been doing it for 32 years, starting work on a grower’s farm when he was 24 years old and gradually buying in until he started his own company, New Horizon Harvest Corporation, about 20 years ago. His farms are located near Grand Junction, the heart of Michigan’s blueberry country and the headquarters of MBG Marketing, of which Hunt is a member and which sells all the fruit he produces. Labor concerns The entire fruit industry now seems to have […]

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