AGRICULTURAL EXTRAORDINAIRE
Earl Hall founded Kerman, California’s Hall Management some 55 years ago and has developed it into the state’s largest agricultural employer. He employs 4,000 workers on any given day, doles out a $3 million payroll each week and, over the course of a year, will manage crops, labor and 40,000 employees across some 600,000 acres. He’s also part of an investment group that purchased and is developing a 61,000-acre, crop-and-cattle endeavor on the island of Maui.
To say the least, Hall, who will celebrate his 80th birthday come January, is busy. And confident. And positively insistent on taking care of his people.
“I won’t tolerate workers not having their pay on time,” Hall asserted. “That is one of the most important things we need. I don’t
