When Harvest Select acquired Birmingham based seafood enterprise, Steel City Seafood this past year, we gained more than just a seafood company. Lucky for us, longtime employee James Patrick Cary, known as Pat, stuck around to show us the ropes. Pat’s official title is Procurement and Production Manager, but if Pat had his way, he’d…
I think if Mark Hasty had his way, he’d be on the golf course morning ‘til night. Lucky for us, he’s selling catfish instead (a man can dream, right?). Growing up in Linden, Alabama, the only real exposure Mark had to farm life was occasionally helping out on a cattle farm owned by a man…
I guess if you’re the Plant Manager of Harvest Select Catfish you don’t have a lot of time for idle chatter. Robert Lee is a man of few words, but he certainly has plenty to talk about. He just isn’t talking. Not much anyway. What I did learn was this; after graduating from high school…
Farmers of the Year are chosen annually from a large field of many deserving catfish growers in the U. S. Farm-Raised Catfish industry. Although it is a difficult task to select just one farmer from each of the top three catfish-producing states, those who are selected embody the spirit of the American farmer. All have…
Bobby Collins joined Harvest Select in June of 2009 but he was certainly no newbie to the industry. In August of 1970, Bobby, who grew up in Greensboro, AL, kicked off a long career in catfish processing at Strahl Catfish. He was newly married to Hilda, his bride of now 47 years, and the following…