Jacob Kremple

Right.

Eight months ago might have been 10, 11.

thousand dollars for that.

We saw prices a couple of weeks ago as high as $16,000, $17,000, which I have never seen in my whole career.

I grew up in this industry.

My dad was a produce buyer.

I grew up with him taking me out to fields and meeting with growers and seeing him be able to build those relationships and partnerships.

And that's what got me interested in this industry was doing that with him.

I've never in my whole career seen prices that high before.

No, I did work for a grower shipper for a couple of years out of college, L&M in North Carolina, to get that experience on the grower side and understand that.

But no, my love was that sort of.

Anytime my dad would go and meet with a grower, he was always talking about Kroger's customer and what he needed for the customer.

It wasn't what he needed for him as, you know, running this buying office they had in Vero Beach, Florida that bought all the produce for East Coast and a lot of their imports.

He was a buyer for Kroger?

Yeah.

Okay.

Yep.

So he ran their produce buying office that they had in Florida that managed all the produce buying for the East Coast.

So, yeah, he'd take me out of school when I was in kindergarten on a Friday and we'd go to, you know, really sexy, amazing places like Immokalee, Florida or Moultrie, Georgia to go look at produce.

We'd stop in.