Bushel Boy Farms

With two midwestern locations, Bushel Boy Farms uses innovative technologies to ensure ideal growing conditions 365 days a year. Watch the full video to learn more about our operations.

We’re excited to announce that Roberto Ramirez, our VP of Greenhouse Operations, has been named one of Twin Cities Business’ Notable Hispanic Leaders! Roberto has been instrumental in driving innovation and sustainability at Bushel Boy, leading initiatives like AI-powered systems, energy-saving technologies, and year-round cucumber production. His leadership has been key to transforming our operations and cultivating a positive work environment for our team. Read more about Roberto’s remarkable journey and contributions in the full feature on Twin Cities Business: https://bit.ly/3YfacsF

Emily Andes recently spoke with CEAg World for a recent CEAg Talk episode on diversifying your crops in the greenhouse. Listen to the interview below, and if you're attending the CEAg World Conference and Expo next week, Emily will be a panelist on the "Diversify your Yield" panel on Wednesday, August 28 https://bit.ly/46XfeNy.

Introducing the Market Blend! ?? Our new tomato variety is finally here, offering a delightful mix of colors and flavors. Perfect for enhancing any dish or enjoying as a fresh snack. Our commitment to quality and sustainability ensures that every tomato is grown with care in our greenhouses, providing you with the freshest and most flavorful produce. We can't wait for you to try them! #GreenhouseGrown #LocallyGrown

It’s our responsibility to reduce waste as a sustainable food company, which is why we started composting materials beginning in 2023. Our first priority is to support our communities through donations to regional food banks, including Second Harvest Heartland and Channel One Regional Food Bank. We donated more than 300 tons of produce in 2023. We also send our leaves and tomatoes waste to the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community’s (SMSC) Organic Recycling Facility to be processed as #compost. We’re proud to report that we composted more than 225 tons of material last year. We're currently researching additional ways to divert other materials away from landfills, including redesigning the support clips used in our growing process to be made from compostable materials, connecting with local farmers for more composting opportunities, increasing recycling rates and exploring technologies that will help manage more compostable materials at our growing locations. #ZeroWaste #SustainableLiving

We’re incredibly proud to see our very own Chuck Tryon featured on WCCO | CBS News Minnesota! Alongside WCCO anchors Jeff Wagner and Erin Hassanzadeh, Chuck shared about this year’s new Minnesota State Fair “Fresh Salsa Recipe Rally” contest sponsored by Bushel Boy in the Creative Activities Building. Remember to register your (famous) salsa by July 30 for a chance to win a cash prize and, as Chuck points out, the all-important bragging rights. ?? And then come see us on opening day of the fair in the Creative Activities Building with influencer-led recipe demonstrations, giveaways, sampling, and more! Check out the full segment for insider tips on how to make your salsa stand out ???? https://cbsn.ws/3WjYhaV

In this Grow & Tell, hear the juicy details from our head grower, Roberto Ramirez, on how we get our tomatoes perfectly ripe every single time. ?? #GreenhouseGrown

With only one world, sustainable is always the vibe. How will you make our planet proud this World Environment Day?

We teamed up with pioneering technology company IUNU to implement the industry’s most-advanced AI-powered technology — LUNA AI. This partnership signifies a seismic shift for the industry, leveraging AI to unlock uncharted levels of progress in food production. ???? Deployed collaboratively at our Owatonna headquarters, LUNA AI combines sophisticated AI and software with advanced cameras to register and monitor crops during the growing cycle, empowering our growing team to make informed production decisions based on superior data and insights. ???? The software captures and processes crop data more accurately than ever before by placing the plant at the center of its analysis, compared to previous technologies that relied on manual inputs from non-statistically significant metrics. The towering hardware features multiple cameras at varying heights that capture Images from an entire plant, top to bottom, recording metrics at a faster, more frequent pace than any other previous technology. ?? We’re proud of the results highlighted below and can’t wait to see the impact this innovation has on our industry and the greater food system. ?? Our crop registration improved by more than 500 times what Bushel Boy was previously able to manually collect, leading to notable time and cost savings. ?? We collected and analyzed data daily from a statistically significant sample of crops compared to their previous weekly cadence from just 0.2% of all crops. ?? We decreased fertilizer costs by 10% because of improved issue detection and data collection. Read more about LUNA AI in HortiDaily: https://bit.ly/3KgC34a

An ode to our busy pollinators on World Bee Day! ?? Bumble bees fly around our greenhouses and pollinate our plants much more efficiently than we could ever do manually. We're grateful for the mutually beneficial relationship between our operations and bumble bees, whose colony lifestyle and foraging practices are perfect for the greenhouse setting. #GreenhouseFarming #WorldBeeDay #Pollinators