Ocean Mist Farms Jobs and Profile

Headquartered in Castroville, California, near Monterey Bay, Ocean Mist Farms (OMF) is one of California?s leading growers of high quality produce. OMF has an affiliation of seven companies with operations in California, Arizona and Mexico. OMF is the largest producer of artichokes and ships approximately 15 other major products. Its operations include plant breeding, farming, harvesting, cooling, distribution, and sales. Ocean Mist is a leading grower/shipper and OMF?s products are sold both domestically and internationally in retail grocery and warehouse club stores. A privately held company since 1924, OMF has approximately 1,100 field, sales, shipping and administrative employees supporting year-round operations. A majority of the workforce is bilingual. OMF owns its modern headquarters and cooling/distribution facilities. It has a very cohesive and talented executive management team, most of whom are life-long agriculturists, and all are outstanding business people. Within the agriculture industry, it has a long-standing reputation for being the preferred employer with management, staff and field workers.