Episode #6 — December 28, 2020 Episode 6: Carissa Olsen, NoKota Packers

Located in the heart of the Red River Valley, NoKota Packers partners with a handful of farms to pack and ship potatoes — mostly reds — around the U.S. New CEO Carissa Olsen, who started as an administrative assistant 15 years ago, joins Spudman’s Zeke Jennings to talk agriculture in the Red River Valley, challenges and opportunities presented by the pandemic, her operation’s role in the larger Fresh Solutions Network and things she’d picked up along the way on the administrative side of running a business.

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