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December 6, 2007

Backyard Farms names new CEO

Backyard Farms has hired a new chief executive officer and president with experience in agricultural technology to replace company co-founder Paul Sellew.

Roy Lubetkin, a former Agway executive, will head the greenhouse tomato grower's strategic growth, which involves branching out to other vegetables, according to the company. Sellew will remain on Backyard Farm's management committee.

In the past two years, the company has grown 500,000 plants in its 24-acre greenhouse and is planning to build five new greenhouses and hire up to 300 employees.

At Agway, Lubetkin was in charge of a $200 million portfolio of food manufacturing and distribution businesses and agricultural technology start-ups, according to a press release.

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