Smart Farming and Managing Data

Steven Schossberger, General Counsel and Vice President, Oregon Potato Company, USA

You may find walking down the frozen food aisle of a grocery store less than extraordinary. Unless, of course, you are particularly hungry. Hungry or not, if you consider that an intense agricultural revolution 12,000 years ago would eventually lead to those frozen fruit and vegetable packets in your cart, then a frozen food aisle can feel more than extraordinary. By chance you ever find yourself confronted with photographer Irving Penn’s ’Frozen Foods” still life collection, you may never consider how those frozen fruits and vegetables were once the product of careful cultivation (and how they likely met a most ignoble end in one of Vogue’s garbage cans).

Steven Schossberger serves as General Counsel and Vice President for Oregon Potato Company and its family of companies. Steve is responsible for overseeing all legal components of the companies, including litigation, acquisitions, employment, labor and industry, government regulatory, intellectual property, and more. See LinkedIn profile.

OPC is family owned and headquartered in the beautiful Pacific Northwest of the United States. OPC started over 40 years ago as a small family farming operation and has been blessed to grow significantly to be one of the largest suppliers of frozen food in the United States, and internationally. OPC and its family of companies has a network of food processing plants throughout the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Michigan and Canada. See www.oregonpotato.com