Carter, wapampando wa CSS Farms, Watertown, SD, adauzidwa za mphothoyo pakuyimba kanema wa Marichi 8 ndi mkonzi wa The Packer a Tom Karst. Karst adayamika Carter chifukwa cha utsogoleri wake, chidwi chake komanso luso lake pamsika wa mbatata.
Ndi mnzake Randy Spevak, Carter adayamba CSS Farms mu 1986, ndikupanga mbatata yoyamba ya mbatata ya french fry chomera chapafupi. CSS Farms posakhalitsa idakulitsa kupanga mbatata ya chip ndi mafamu ku Nebraska ndi Texas. Minda ya CSS tsopano ili ndi zotsalira zomwe zimaphatikizira anthu ogwira ntchito nthawi zonse 350 muntchito 19 zaulimi m'maiko 11. Kumapeto kwa 2018, Carter adatsika ngati CEO pakampaniyo koma amakhalabe wapampando wawo. Othandizira pa CSS Farms lero akuphatikizapo Bob Bender, Nathan Bender, Steve Gangwish, Reagan Grabner, ndi Spevak.
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A Russell Wysocki, CEO wa Wysocki Family of Cos./RPE Inc., Bancroft, Wis., Anatero m'kalata yosankha kuti Carter watsogolera CSS Farms kuti ikhale imodzi mwazomwe zimapanga mbatata kwambiri.
Kuphatikiza pa ntchito yake yayikulu mu chip ndi mbatata, Carter adazindikira bwino momwe mbatata zatsopano zimakhalira, Wysocki adati. "Tidali ndi mwayi wopanga nawo mgwirizano ndi CSS Farms mu 2010 kuti tithandizire masomphenya omwe Milt Packer adalumikizana nawo paulendo wa US Potato Board kunja ku Europe mu 1997," adatero Wysocki. "Ulendowu unali wolimbikitsa kwambiri kwa zomwe zakhala Tasteful Selections, wolima wamkulu, wonyamula komanso wogulitsa mbatata zokuluma."
Mu 2010, CSS Farms idalumikizana ndi RPE ndi Plover River Farms kuti ipange Tasteful Selection, m'modzi mwa opanga mendulo za ana ndi mbatata zazing'ono. Wysocki adati Msika wa mbatata woluma panthawiyo unali wochepera 1.5% pamsika waku US ndipo mkati mwa zaka 10 wakula kupitirira 18%.
"Chomwe chimapangitsa izi kukhala chodabwitsa kwambiri ndichakuti Milt anali njira yoyera yolima ndipo anali wotsutsana kwambiri ndi msika watsopano chifukwa cha zovuta zake pakugwiritsa ntchito zochepa komanso mwayi wopeza phindu lochepa," adatero Wysocki. "Komabe, adatha kuwona kufunika kwa mbatata zapamwamba, zosavuta kugwiritsa ntchito komanso zosavuta zomwe ena omwe anali mgululi sanazione. Masomphenyawa athandiza makampani onse kupita patsogolo, kulimbikitsa kufunafuna kwa ogula ndikubweretsa moyo mumsika wotsika."
Zomwe Carter adachita pamsikawu zikuphatikizira utsogoleri wothandizira kuthana ndi matenda a Zebra chip, ndi othandizana nawo akuyamika chitukuko chake cha njira zabwino zoyendetsera agronomic zama psyllid ndi Zebra chip control. Carter watumikiranso m'mabungwe angapo amakampani ndi makomiti, kuphatikiza zaka zambiri ngati director of the National Potato Council. Kuimbira Carter mnzake komanso mnzake, Neil Gudmestad, pulofesa wopuma pantchito ku North Dakota State University, adati ulemu wa Carter udatha. Adayamika kufunitsitsa kwa Carter kuti apeze mayankho ndikukhala mlimi wabwino, zomwe zakhala zoona kuyambira m'masiku ake oyamba pantchitoyi.
"Ndikukumbukira pomwe anali munthu wopanda pake ndipo anali pamsonkhano wapachaka wa alimi a mbatata ku Red River Valley ku Fargo, ND, ndipo ndidakambirana," adakumbukira. "Kunali kupuma ndipo Milt adangondifunsa mafunso 100, kotero kuti sindinathe kupita kukamwa khofi." Palibe amene ankadziwa kuti Carter anali ndani, koma aliyense akumudziwa lero, atero a Gudmestad. Carter adayamika chifukwa cha ulemuwo komanso anthu omwe amagwira nawo ntchito. Poganizira za ntchito yake, Milt Packer adati sizinali ntchito. "Ndasamukira pantchito, koma uwu ndi moyo wanga ndipo ndizomwe ndimakonda kuchita."
A Packer adzaitanitsa kanema kuti alole abwenzi ogulitsa mbatata kuti ayamikire Carter pomuzindikira, kuti atulutsidwe posachedwa.