February 2006

• 101 Years of Okray Potatoes The governing philosophy at Okray Farms is slow, steady growth. And that’s exactly what they’ve done over the last 100 years. What started as a small operation buying and selling produce in 1905 has grown to a family farm with more than 7,000 acres under cultivation.
• Equipping Potato Growers They may no longer be growing potatoes, but the Ellises certainly are involved in the potato industry; Okray Farms Continues Tradition Started in 1905 on a world-wide basis.
• Learning from Automakers
• Potato Early Die For more than 30 years, potato growers have managed the chronic disease called potato early dying (or potato early die) with a chemical attack that ranges from relatively mild preventatives to complete fumigation.