Zelenka Farms files for bankruptcy

From Nasdaq.com:

Zelenka Farms, a plant grower for big-box retailers including Lowe's Cos., Kmart, Shopko and Home Depot Inc., has filed for bankruptcy protection, blaming an unusually wet spring.

Lawyers who put Zelenka Farms into chapter 11 protection on Friday told a judge they are looking for buyers to take over the Irving, Texas-based company's six farms, which employ 1,519 people located in Tennessee, Oregon and other states.

Founded in 1993 under the name Berry Family of Nurseries, the company grows plants on a total of 3,577 acres of land on farms in Oregon, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Michigan and North Carolina.

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