“We’ve had a few changes here,” said Weston Crapo, new sales manager at Sun-Glo of Idaho in Sugar City, ID, in an interview with The Produce News Aug. 28. Among those changes is a new sales team.

Betty Miles, formerly sales manager, and Mary Sedberry, formerly transportation manager, who had been with the company for many years, are no longer there. “Betty semi-retired” in April and is now working part-time, “helping her husband Rick with his business,” Rick Miles Produce Services, a potato and onion brokerage in Idaho Falls. “Mary also went over there to help with his business,” Mr. Crapo said.

Now on sales are “myself and Jill Cox,” he said.

Sun-Glo’s George Crapo and Weston Crapo at the 2012 PMA Foodservice show in Monterey.Mr. Crapo, son of Bruce Crapo, one of the company’s owners, is new in the sales manager position, as of April, but has actually been with the company for the past two years. “Before that, I went to college, got my degree in accounting and worked for a CPA firm for four years, then came back here two years ago to the family business.”

Ms. Cox is the daughter of Mr. Crapo’s uncle George Crapo, also an owner and the company’s president. She “grew up on the farm” and worked at Sun-Glo while going to college, “so she is not new to the operations,” but since college has been involved in banking and real estate. She joined Sun-Glo on the sales desk in March, he said.

There are eight family members who are owners of the company, Mr. Crapo said — four of his father’s generation and four of his cousins, all sons of George Crapo.

The company was founded by Mr. Crapo’s grandfather and his brothers, but the heritage goes back another generation to “my great grandfather, George,” who homesteaded in the area in 1919 or 1920.

“We are owner-grower-based,” Mr. Crapo said. “We still have our hands in the soil every day … within the next decade, we will be at 100 years with our family operation. We feel that we have a real sustainability there that will give our customers comfort.”

Also giving comfort to customers, he continued, is “our quality. That is a big thing. We have been at it so long that we feel like we have our processes set. We have a very consistent quality that adds value to our customers.”

The company packs standard cartons, bags and bins and has some new packaging under development, regarding which Mr. Crapo was not yet ready to disclose particulars.

As to facilities, Sun-Glo has added to its cold storage over the past year.

With the new-crop harvest just getting started, the crop “is looking really good,” Mr. Crapo said. The size profile “is not quite as big as we thought it could be,” but the early Norkotahs had “a good mix.” Burbanks would start in about four weeks, and they are “looking good as well. They look like they have good size on them.” It has been a hot summer, but “I don’t think it is affecting [the crop] adversely.”