Family Farms: How to pass on - or sell off - the family business - Business - The Sacramento Bee

"It’s a love for the land that sinks as deep as a taproot. Or not.

For agricultural families, whether it’s a pear orchard, a wine vineyard or a tomato-processing plant, there’s no handbook for knowing when – or how – to hand over the business to the next generation. Or even whether the kids are interested.

Karrie and Todd Rufer, both college graduates in their 20s, are decidedly interested. As siblings who grew up playing in the family’s agricultural warehouses in Williams, the two have come home to take jobs that will determine whether they will eventually assume the reins at Morning Star Co., the global tomato-processing business started by their father more than 40 years ago."

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