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2017 ASHS Annual Conference

Driscoll's Global Career Opportunities

Thursday, September 21, 2017: 11:00 AM
Presentation Area - Grand Promenade (Hilton Waikoloa Village)
Logan McCollum, Driscoll's, Watsonville, CA
Joy Starts Here! – Please join us for an interactive session highlighting Driscoll’s, and our global career opportunities!

Joy begins with a delicious berry, and our consistently sweet berries start with the Joy Makers! See how Driscoll’s Joy Makers use science, sense, and imagination to create pure berry joy. Strawberries that are firm, but not too crunchy. Raspberries that are sweet and juicy, but not mushy. Blackberries that are huge, beautiful, and burst in your mouth with juicy flavor. And blueberries that are flavorful, but not tart. These near perfect berries don’t happen by accident. Growing perfectly fresh, beautiful, delicious berries is as much of an art as it is a science. The Joy Makers are the artists behind those berries.

Working together as a team of agronomists, breeders, sensory analysts, plant health scientists, and entomologists, the Joy Makers research and develop the very highest quality berries. The Joy Makers work with Mother Nature to develop the best berries possible using proven natural traditional breeding processes such as hand cross-pollination (Driscoll’s Berries are not genetically modified) and to ensure that those fresh, tasty, colorful berries make their way to berry lovers the world over. Come Share the Berry Joy!