Owatonna-based Bushel Boy Farms has been selling greenhouse-grown tomatoes for much of its more than 30 years in business. Ever since Chuck Tryon took the top spot in late 2020, though, the company has been expanding its lineup with the launch of cucumbers, strawberries, and sweet peppers. A former leader at Minnesota titans General Mills, Pillsbury, and Ecolab, Tryon says consumers can expect to see even more new products from Bushel Boy in the year ahead. “We plan to continue to do what we’ve done in the last two years,” he says: “expand and diversify our product line.”

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