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Company:
Costa Farms, Goulds, Fla.
Job Title:
Director of Research and Development
Age:
30
Accomplishments:
Developed one of the largest unbiased trials programs in the country that helps provide growers, retailers and breeders with insight into how varieties perform; During her graduate school career, Kate was published in five different scientific publications on research primarily related to nutrient uptake.
Extracurricular:
Hobbies: In no particular order — mountain climbing, writing, reading, painting, baking, yoga and kayaking; Favorite vacation spot: “Somewhere quiet and secluded — on a mountain, by a lake or a river”
Fun Fact:
Can’t live without: my Kindle; “I would drop anything I was doing, regardless of the point I was at in my life, for an opportunity to travel into space;" In 1969, Kate’s great uncle, Alphonse Bielevich, caught the world’s largest Atlantic cod (98 lb., 12 oz.) — a record that still stands today.
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Year:
2012