Harvest Croo Robotics
Co-Founder, Harvest Croo Robotics
Gary Wishnatzki has over 42 years of experience in the produce industry and is the 3rd generation owner of Plant City Florida based Wish Farms, a berry grower/shipper.
Most recently he has co-founded a start-up robotic company, Harvest CROO Robotics. The mission is to solve the problem of labor shortages through automation. The first project is to build a robotic strawberry picker.
Over the last decade Wish Farms has had several innovations. They include inventing a patented traceability system, How’s My Picking™, developing a bloom count model to forecast strawberry production and becoming a leader in the Southeast region for processed strawberry production.
Gary oversees the businesses under their core values: Quality, Integrity and Responsiveness.