May | June 2010 INDUSTRY NEWS Former New York State 100th anniversary celebration
Keynote speaker at
by Meghan Watson Credits to: Wilbur Mull, Tom Rivers with The Daily News, and Kelly Gates with Country Folks Grower.
Most everyone highly active in the green industry to- day can think back to his or her childhood and recall when and where their love for agricul- ture began. For some, it was grow- ing a garden in the yard with a family member. For others, it was a weekly or monthly gathering with friends for programs like 4-H or the Future Farm- ers of America in school.
For long-
time member of GGIA and president of Classic Groundcovers, Wilbur C. Mull, it was the latter that gave him the resources and skills to be proficient in such a profession even after childhood to present day.
leans FFA group and New York State FFA Vice Presi- dent.
There, he served with State President Dick Church (retired, Head of Ag Alumni Relations for Cornell University) as one of the two official state delegates at the National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri.
Wilbur Mull, president of Classic Groundcovers
Mull grew up on a 230 acre farm in upstate New York. When he was younger, he became highly active in the Albion FFA program. Between 1956 and 1959, he competed in many contests through FFA, district- and state-wide, in one of which, public speaking, he placed second two years in a row in the New York State FFA Public Speaking Contest. Between 1959 and 1960, Mull became president of the Niagara-Or-
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After high school, Mull attended Al- fred, a small agriculture and technol- ogy school in New York, earned his associate degree, and then transferred to the University of Georgia where he received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Agriculture Economics.
Mull went on to graduate school and completed all work for a PhD except the dissertation. He decided to take what he had learned to develop his 100 acre, four million dollar wholesale nursery business, Classic Groundcovers in Athens, Georgia, that he has been involved in for the past 47 years.
With a lifetime of achievements under his belt, it
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