Alger Farms

What Alger Farms does

Alger Farms Inc is a private family-owned farm headquartered in Homestead, Florida, operating since 1981 across three product lines: fresh winter sweet corn (hand-harvested via mule-train crews, available January through April), snap beans (machine-harvested on 500–600 acres under a crop-rotation regime, available March through early May), and wholesale field-grown trees, palms, and landscape materials. The company is a wholesale-only producer; it does not sell directly to consumers, with sweet corn and snap beans routed to retail grocery chains (Publix and Walmart are named retail accounts) primarily across the eastern United States, and landscape materials sold to landscape contractors in South Florida. Post-harvest handling for sweet corn — hydrocooling, grading, packing, and distribution to retailers — is performed by SM Jones & Co, which functions as a critical operating partner and effectively the customer-facing sales channel.

The business model is straightforward commodity-plus-specialty wholesale: revenue is generated by selling physical agricultural product at wholesale prices to enterprise buyers (national grocery retailers for produce; landscapers for nursery stock). Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is set via direct contact through website inquiry forms and phone outreach. The GTM motion is relationship-driven B2B with no discernible digital marketing, no e-commerce, and no consumer-facing brand presence; the company instead relies on multi-generational relationships, South Florida's winter microclimate advantage, and listings with established retailers.

From an operational standpoint, the underlying technology is conventional agriculture: hand picking, mule trains, mechanical bean harvesters, packinghouse processing, and hydrocooling. There is no proprietary technology stack, no software or AI components, and no published intellectual property. The organization is small (11–50 employees, with roughly 50 seasonal workers on the corn crew at peak) and family-led — President John L. Alger, Corn/Beans Operations Manager John W. Alger, Nursery Manager/Sales Wesley Money, and Office Manager Amanda Money — with no disclosed institutional investors, subsidiaries, M&A activity, or expansion capital events in the data.

Name

Alger Farms

Legal name

Alger Farms Inc

Website

https://algerfarms.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1981

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Alger Farms Inc is a family-owned farm in Homestead, Florida that produces fresh winter sweet corn (hand-harvested), snap beans, and wholesale landscape materials, supplying regional and eastern US retail grocery chains and South Florida landscape contractors exclusively through wholesale channels.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Wholesale Agricultural Produce and Nursery

NAICS

Corn Farming (11115), Other Crop Farming (1119)

SIC

Agricultural Production-Crops (100)

akta.pro primary industry

Sweet Corn & Specialty Corn Farming (Fresh Market Corn, Baby Corn) (AFAGADAH)

Keywords

• Wholesale sweet corn
• Fresh winter produce
• Snap bean farming
• Wholesale landscape nursery
• Family farm agriculture

Headquarters

HQ city

Homestead

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Fresh Winter Sweet Corn Sales: Wholesale B2B sales of hand-harvested sweet corn to retail grocery chains. Corn is packaged into wooden crates (1 bushel/48 ears), shipped to packing house for hydrocooling, then distributed to retailers.
2. Snap Bean Sales: Machine-harvested green beans sold wholesale to retail grocery stores. Beans are sent to packinghouse for grading, cleaning, and processing before shipping to retailers.
3. Landscape Materials Sales: Wholesale field-grown trees, palms, and landscape materials sold to landscapers and landscape companies in South Florida.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Alger Farms Inc is a wholesale family farm in Homestead, Florida that grows and sells fresh winter sweet corn, snap beans, and field-grown landscape materials (trees and palms). The company operates a B2B wholesale model, selling hand-harvested and machine-harvested produce to retail grocery chains and landscape materials to professional landscapers, primarily in the eastern United States and South Florida.

Product overview

Alger Farms Inc is a family farm in Homestead, Florida offering a portfolio of fresh winter produce and wholesale landscape materials. The company operates three core product lines: Fresh Winter Sweet Corn (hand-harvested yellow, bicolor, and white varieties available January–April), Snap Beans (machine-harvested green beans from 500–600 acres, available March–early May), and Landscape Materials (wholesale field-grown trees, palms, and landscape materials since 1981). Corn and beans operations are coordinated with SM Jones & Co for packing and hydrocooling, while landscape materials are sold directly to landscapers through personalized selection.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fresh Winter Sweet Corn Fresh winter sweet corn grown in Homestead, Florida, available January to April. Hand-harvested using a mule train crew of approximately 50 employees, packaged into wooden crates (1 bushel / 48 ears per crate), and offered in yellow, bicolor, and white varieties. Distributed wholesale to retail grocery chains throughout the eastern United States via SM Jones & Co packinghouse for hydrocooling.
• Snap Beans Green snap beans grown on 500-600 acres in crop rotation after sweet corn harvest, available March to early May. Machine-harvested with mechanical bean pickers, then sent to a packinghouse for grading, cleaning, and processing. Shipped wholesale to retail grocery chains including Publix and Walmart.
• Landscape Materials Wholesale field-grown trees, palms, and landscape materials supplied to professional landscapers and landscape companies in South Florida since 1981. The product line offers personalized selection of trees, palms, and landscape materials. Alger Farms is a wholesale-only operation and does not sell directly to homeowners.

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• SM Jones & CocoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerPacking house partner that receives, hydrocools, and processes Alger Farms' sweet corn. Critical post-harvest handling partner that ensures product quality and shelf life before distribution to retailers.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Lipman Family Farms: One of North America's largest open-field vegetable producers, headquartered in Immokalee, FL, with significant winter supply of tomatoes, peppers, and other vegetables to retail. Comparable to Alger as a Florida-based, wholesale-only, large-acreage produce grower serving grocery chains.
• Cherry Lake Tree Farm: Florida wholesale nursery and landscape tree grower supplying landscape contractors across the southeastern US. Directly comparable to Alger's wholesale nursery/landscape materials business as a wholesale-only tree and palm supplier to landscape professionals.
• SunnyRidge Farm: Florida and Georgia-based grower/packer-shipper of blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, and vegetables sold to retail grocery. Comparable to Alger Farms as a southeastern US grower supplying major retail grocery customers.
• Duda Farm Fresh Foods: Large Florida-based grower and shipper of fresh vegetables including sweet corn, leafy greens, and celery, supplying major US grocery chains. Directly comparable to Alger Farms in winter produce categories and retail-grocery go-to-market.
• R.C. Hatton Farms: Multi-generational family farm in the Lake Okeechobee/Homestead, FL region producing sweet corn, green beans, leafy greens, and other vegetables for retail. Closest direct competitor to Alger Farms given overlapping geography, crop mix (corn and beans), and wholesale-retail customer base.
• Hundley Farms: Florida family farm producing sweet corn, sugarcane, and other crops for wholesale buyers. Comparable to Alger as a multi-crop Florida farm selling into commodity/wholesale channels.

Regional players

• Tasti-Lee / Santa Sweets (Hortica): Florida tomato and vegetable brand sold through retail grocery in the eastern US. Comparable to Alger Farms as a Florida-grown, branded produce supplier to eastern US retailers, though focused on tomatoes rather than corn and beans.

Broad incumbents

• TreeTown USA / Everde Growers: One of the largest wholesale nursery operations in the US, producing container and field-grown trees, palms, and shrubs for landscape professionals. Comparable to Alger's nursery business but at significantly larger scale and broader geographic reach.
• Fresh Express: National packaged-salad and fresh vegetable producer (Chiquita/Innovexa subsidiary) with broad retail distribution. Comparable to Alger at the retail-grocery produce category level, though operating at vastly larger scale and across more SKUs.

Others

• Keel Farms / Keel & Co. Specialty Florida produce and agritourism operator. Relevant as another multi-generational Florida farm business, but with a different end-customer mix and agritourism angle rather than pure wholesale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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