{"id":2425,"date":"2014-02-20T22:12:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T22:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2014-05-22T16:32:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T16:32:13","slug":"tim-cunniff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/tim-cunniff\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 100: Executive Vice President of Sales of Backyard Farms Tim Cunniff"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong>\u00a0100
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0February 15
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Tim Cunniff
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tim Cunniff, executive vice president of sales of Backyard Farms<\/a>,\u00a0grew up in New Jersey. He is a graduate of St Joseph\u2019s University in Philadelphia and he is still an active alumni with the Academy of Food Marketing Program.<\/p>\n

Cunniff started out in the produce business 26 years ago selling pineapples for Dole into the New York City market.\u00a0 He was an original staffer for the Produce for Better Health Foundation launching the National 5 A Day campaign and was the Director of Marketing for North America for Del Monte Fresh Produce.<\/p>\n

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Host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe Steve Woods (left) talked tomatoes with Executive Vice President of Sales of\u00a0Backyard Farms Tim Cunniff (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

From 2002-2006 Cunniff managed sales and multiple commodities for the Oppenheimer Group.\u00a0 While in this position he sold imported fruit and greenhouse vegetables primarily to Eastern Canada out of the Newark, New Jersey.\u00a0 He also managed the Oceanspray fresh cranberry business from 2003-2006<\/p>\n

Cunniff became Executive Vice President of Sales of Backyard Farms in 2006 and is one of the original founders of the company. \u00a0The company faced some hurdles last year when their tomato crops were not harvestable.\u00a0\u00a0Stevoe told Cunniff\u00a0that the way the company handled their problems\u00a0in 2013 was commendable.\u00a0 This month was their first harvest since the summer of 2013.\u00a0 Cunniff said that Backyard Farms is “back rockin’ and rollin’!”<\/p>\n

He currently sits on the board of the Certified Greenhouse Growers Association and is involved in the Produce Marketing Association\u2019s F.I.T. program (Future of Industry Talent) whose mission is to recruit young people coming out of college into the agriculture and produce industry.<\/p>\n

Backyard Farms was founded in 2005 to hydroponically produce vine-ripened tomatoes year round.\u00a0 Backyard Farms operates 42-acres of greenhouse growing space in Madison, Maine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods interviewed executive vice president of sales of Backyard Farms Tim Cunniff. The two talked about Cunniff’s early days working for Del Monte and spending time in Hawaii. Cunniff and Stevoe coined the term “emerald city” when talking about Backyard Farms’ 42-acre greenhouse in Madison, Maine and how it is its own ecosystem. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}