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items required in producing, harvesting, and marketing the crops;
(3) to furnish all tools, farm implements, machinery, and hired
help necessary to cultivate and manage the farm; (4) to protect
the crops from injury and waste; (5) to till the land after
harvesting the crops; and (6) to rotate the crops from year to
year. Dreyer Farms agreed to furnish all necessary materials,
and the Weeldreyers agreed to supply all necessary labor, to
maintain all fences and other improvements on the farm.
2. Bleeker Enterprises, Inc. and Alfred Tammen Leases
During 1996 and 1997, Dreyer Farms leased farmland from
Bleeker Enterprises, Inc.6 (Bleeker Enterprises), on a share-crop
basis. Pursuant to these farm leases, Dreyer Farms received 60
percent, and Bleeker Enterprises received 40 percent, of the
crop. Mr. Weeldreyer, as an employee of Dreyer Farms, did the
actual farming of the Bleeker Enterprises farm. The Bleeker
Enterprises farm was located approximately 5 miles from the
Weeldreyer farm.
In addition to leasing the Bleeker Enterprises farm, Dreyer
Farms leased farmland from Alfred Tammen (the Tammen farm) on a
cash-rent basis.7
6Bleeker Enterprises, Inc., is owned by petitioners’ counsel
(Douglas Bleeker) and his family.
7Mr. Tammen is Mr. Weeldreyer’s cousin.
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