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Dec 2023
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BLUE DIAMOND GROWERS: Cultivating digita...

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Blue Diamond Growers' Steven Birgfeld, vice president of information technology and services, joins Tamara McCleary, CEO of Thulium, to discuss the global business forces that necessitated change for the world's largest almond business so it could better serve its co-op and customers.

 

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