Glennville, GA-based G&R Farms, a third generation Vidalia Onion grower, announced this week the addition of Rawls Neville as sales manager.
Industry veteran Neville started his career as a farmhand and has held jobs as an operations manager at Four Corners Farms and Van Solkema Produce. In 2022, Neville expanded his industry interests with the new title of owner when he purchased Van Solkema’s Georgia facility and partnered in an onion and watermelon growing operation with Hilliard Farms.
Neville has worked with G&R Farms since 2015 in a storage and packing relationship through his previous businesses.
“It’s always a blessing to work with committed industry professionals who understand our business and are equally passionate about quality and service,” said Steven Shuman, General Manager of G&R Farms. “Rawls’ attention to detail and his knowledge of all facets of the supply chain from growing to operations, as well as the responsibility of the sales relationship, make him a valuable addition to our team.”
With an eye to the future, the Georgia Southern University grad wasted no time getting involved in the Vidalia Onion business as a grower-packer, and other than a short ag sales tenure at AimTrac, Vidalia onions has always been the career path for him.
Asked about his role at G&R, Neville responded, “I’m lucky that I was able to get to know G&R as a company over the last nine years and learn about their people and their culture. They are a great group of individuals, and they excel at whatever they do thanks to their deep bench of talent and willingness to do the hard work. It made it easy to says yes when they asked me to come work for them, and I can’t wait to grow my experience with them.”
When not working in the onion business, Neville enjoys spending time with his wife Kimberly and their two girls. Like any good Southerner, he spends some of his spare time hunting and fishing or rooting on the Georgia Southern Eagles.
