Mohr-Fry Ranches

Jerry's dad, Jeryl Fry, met and married Marian Mohr while both were attending the University of California, Berkeley. In 1955, they extended the farming operation to a 600-acre ranch at Terminous (San Joaquin County). Later they added 1,100 acres at Thornton, north of Lodi, and other smaller vineyard properties in the area. Jerry's mother, president of Mohr-Fry Ranches, still lives in the house where she was born, on the original Mt. Eden property. His two sisters are Gayle Tully, chief financial officer and Alfreda Andrews, vice-president of administration and secretary.

The agricultural history of the Mohr's and Fry's extends back to the 1850's, when Bruce Fry's great-great-grandfather on Jerry's mother's side, Cornelius Mohr, left his job on a whaling ship in the port of San Francisco and began a farming operation on a Spanish land grant near what later became Hayward (Alameda County). His son, William Mohr, continued farming row crops and wheat, and breeding iris.

Jerry Fry studied agricultural engineering and soil physics at UC Berkeley and UC Davis. He also studied soil science at Davis. His son, Bruce, a fifth generation member of the Mohr and Fry families, grew up working on the ranches part-time as he completed schooling. After receiving his degree in agricultural business management from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, in 1995, he joined the family business full-time.