Vegetables, melons and row crops · operation or companytop ten landowner
A. Duda & Sons
the celery family's diversified land company
- Founded
- 1926
- Evidence class
- publicly verified operating
- Acres (module, 2025 roll)
- 27,432
- Place
- Oviedo; operations at Belle Glade and LaBelle
- District
- The Glades
- Status as of 12 September 2026
- Operating in its fourth and fifth generations, with vegetables, sugarcane, cattle, citrus, sod and real estate.
- Connections
- 4 edges, 4 distinct neighbours · betweenness 0.060 (rank 25 of 243) · location and lineage only 0.118 (rank 3) · outside share 0.25
- Confidence
- High · sources: [DUDA100] [DUDAR] [WDUDA] [ENCD] [MOD] (register)
Andrew Duda's family establishes the partnership in 1926 on the strength of its first Slavia celery crop; the company farms the Glades, enters citrus at LaBelle in the 1960s and grows sugarcane in South Florida from the early 1960s [DUDA100][DUDAR][WDUDA]. The module's owner table carries Duda at 27,432 acres inside the region [MOD].
Connections
Location and lineage
- grew intoDuda Sodthe turfgrass division1973
- tied venture or seatLaBellecitrus purchased at LaBelle in the 1960s1960s to present
- tied venture or seatBelle Gladethe produce and sod operation in the Gladesongoing
Support
- supported byFreezes of 1962 to 1989the company expands citrus into southwest Florida after the freezes, one documented response1980s