Family-Owned · Grower · Packer · Shipper

Fresh from our South Carolina fields to your dock.

Willis Produce Sales grows, packs and ships premium seedless watermelons, pumpkins, broccoli, lettuce and potatoes — with cold storage, a certified food-safety program and year-round supply for retail and wholesale buyers.

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What We Grow & Ship

Our produce, picked at its peak.

We harvest daily during the season and supplement with our trusted grower network the rest of the year — so your shelves never go empty. Tap a card for the details.

Our Specialty
Freshly cut seedless watermelon halves showing deep red flesh in the sun

Seedless Watermelon

Year-Round · Peak: April – October

The crop we're known for. Sweet, crisp seedless melons in multiple varieties, field-packed in bins with a 10–14 day shelf life — shipping 52 weeks a year.

  • Multiple seedless varieties, red-flesh
  • Year-round supply through our grower network
  • Bin-packed straight from the field
  • Mini/personal melons available in season
  • Retail-ready programs & store-brand stickering
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Pumpkins & Fall Squash

Peak: August – November

Fall favorites for bins, displays and store fronts — jack-o'-lantern classics, pie pumpkins, ornamentals and hard squash.

  • Jack-o'-lantern & pie pumpkins
  • Ornamental pumpkins, gourds & minis
  • Hard squash — butternut, acorn, spaghetti & more
  • Bin quantities for high-volume displays
  • Carved lit jack-o'-lanterns Colorful ornamental gourds Assorted hard winter squash
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Broccoli

Year-Round

Tight, blue-green crowns cut cool and rushed to our cold storage — hydro-cooled freshness for produce aisles and foodservice.

  • Crowns and bunched broccoli
  • Iced or film-wrapped packs
  • Year-round supply across our growing regions
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Lettuce

Year-Round

Crisp iceberg and leaf lettuces, cooled fast and shipped fresh — clean, uniform heads that hold up on the shelf.

  • Iceberg, romaine & leaf varieties
  • Carton packs, liner options
  • Cold chain protected door to door
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Potatoes & Sweet Potatoes

Year-Round

Fresh-dug potatoes and sweet potatoes from our growing operations — graded, sized and packed for retail and foodservice.

  • Yellow, red & sweet potato programs
  • Multiple pack sizes & grades
  • Year-round supply through our grower network
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Seasonal & Specialty

Ask What's Fresh

Cantaloupe, sweet onions, asparagus and more move through our dock every season. If it grows, our network can source it.

  • Cantaloupe, sweet onions, asparagus, mixed vegetables
  • Sourced through vetted partner growers
  • Call for current availability & pricing
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Availability

When it's at its best.

Peak seasons at a glance across our growing regions — and thanks to our partner grower network, most items are available to program buyers year-round.

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Availability shifts with the weather — reach out for this week's list.

Who We Are

A family farm that grew into a full-service produce house.

From our home fields in Lodge, South Carolina, Willis Produce Sales has grown into a grower-packer-shipper with operations across South Florida, North Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Indiana — following the seasons so supply never skips a beat. We still walk the fields every morning, and we still answer our own phones.

  • Grower, packinghouse & cold storage — one accountable partner from seed to shipping dock.
  • Harvesting daily in season — picked, cooled and rolling within hours, not days.
  • Repack & retail-ready services — bins, cartons, stickering and store-brand programs.
  • Trusted grower network — when our fields rest, our partners keep your program supplied.
A Willis Produce seedless watermelon ripening on the vine in our Lodge, SC field
Food Safety First

Certified. Audited. Accountable.

Buyers trust us with their labels because food safety isn't a checkbox here — it's how we operate every day, from ag-water testing to the sanitizer levels in our wash line.

PrimusGFS Certified

Annual third-party GFSI audits covering our farm and packing operations, including the FDA/FSMA addendum.

FDA-Registered Facility

Registered facility operating under the Produce Safety Rule, with a full HACCP-based food safety plan.

Trained & Qualified Team

PSA Produce Safety, PCQI and FSVP certified staff leading GAPs, sanitation and employee hygiene programs.

Monitored Wash Line

Post-harvest wash with monitored antimicrobial treatment, tested agricultural water and annual water assessments.

Full Traceability

Lot-level recall and traceability program — we can trace any bin back to the field it came from.

Cold Chain, Unbroken

On-site cooling and cold storage keep product at temperature from harvest until it's on your truck.

Freight & Logistics

A full line of freight carriers behind every load.

Produce doesn't wait, and neither do we. We run a full network of trusted freight carriers — refrigerated and vented equipment — to cover our produce hauling needs coast to coast, season after season.

Why buyers don't worry about trucks

  • Established carrier network — a full lineup of vetted trucking partners hauling for us every week.
  • Reefer & vented equipment — the right trailer at the right temperature for every commodity.
  • Cold chain, door to door — loads leave our cold storage at temp and stay there.
  • Real dispatch, real answers — you call, a person who knows your load picks up.

Haul For Us — Carrier Application

Reefer carriers welcome. Fill this out and we'll reply with our carrier packet. Once approved, you're added to our load bid board — see our loads and bid on freight directly.

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Let's Talk Produce

Get a quote or check this week's availability.

Call, email, or send the form — you'll hear back from a Willis, not a call center.

Reach Us Directly

Steven Willis — President (803) 707-9712
Stacy Willis — Vice President (803) 707-8731
Fran & Susi — Wake Forest, NC Office frant@willisproducesales.com susitorigian@willisproducesales.com
Michelle Riggs — Florida Office mscott@willisproducesales.com
Farm & Shipping 93 McCune Branch Lane, Lodge, SC Corporate Office 492 Black River Rd, Barnwell, SC 29812 Operations South Florida · North Florida · Georgia · South Carolina · North Carolina · Indiana

Hours (by appointment):
Mon–Fri 8am – 7pm · Sat–Sun 8am – 6pm

Request a Quote

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