WC Bradley Co.

04/29/2026

We are thrilled to announce that Christopher M. Ball has been named as our Chief Executive Officer! Mr. Ball has served as Chairman since April 2023 and as interim CEO since the retirement of James G. Hillenbrand in October 2025. He will continue to serve as Chairman in addition to his new role as CEO.

A fifth-generation family member, Mr. Ball is the great-great-grandson of William Clark Bradley, who founded the company in 1885 in Columbus, Georgia. He brings more than 30 years of business leadership experience across a range of industries, including hospitality, marketing, investments, and manufacturing.

"For more than 140 years, our family has been firmly committed to creating outstanding products that our customers love, providing a values-centered workplace, fostering a culture that puts people first, and strengthening the communities where we live and work," said Mr. Ball.

Please join us in congratulating Christopher M. Ball!

04/23/2026

Congratulations to on the OKJ Canyon Combo grill being named the Best Overall Gas and Charcoal Combo Grill by . Kudos to the OKJ's team! Check out the article here https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/appliances/outdoor-grill-reviews/g70985610/gas-and-charcoal-grills-review/

03/14/2026

So proud of the team at W.C. Bradley Farms!

Cultivating in the Valley
Part two in our series celebrating America's 250th!

Sowing Tradition, Reaping Innovation
Rooted for more than a century in Stewart County’s fertile soil, WC Bradley Farms draws on the past to pay it foward.

Talking while on the 30-minute drive from WC Bradley Co.’s headquarters on Front Avenue south to its private farm in Stewart County, Ashley Turner draws a strong parallel for how the approximately 40,000-acre site serves as a microcosm of the prevailing forces that have shaped the full 250-year span of agriculture in the United States of America.
Family-owned and operated since the early 1900s, WC Bradley Farms extends out from steep river bluffs to rolling hills of towering hardwoods and piney woods to big-sky spaces of lush river bottoms. The land’s life-giving qualities of fertile fields, abundant wildlife and vital waterways explain why this stretch of the Lower Chattahoochee River Valley served as the center of commerce and culture for Native Americans for centuries. Indigenous populations were removed, at first by fraud and then by force, with the State of Georgia’s encroachment southwest into Creek Territory in the 1820s and ‘30s. Next, government-sanctioned land lotteries then planted seeds of wildly profitable plantations, owned by those of European descent, worked by enslaved labor imported from Africa. Slavery, the cotton gin and the Chattahoochee’s direct connection to lucrative European markets combined to make current-day moribund counties of Randolph and Stewart a bustling place flush with newfound wealth in the antebellum era.

Read more here: https://issuu.com/columbusandthevalley.com/docs/march_april_2026_columbus_and_the_valley/44

02/23/2026

Last month, we kicked off the new year with our 42nd Annual Prayer Breakfast! Our guest speaker, blew us all away with her powerful message reminding us all how to be brave during trying times. Toni is the founder of the women's organization, Broken Crayons Still Color that helps women get through brokenness and get to healing and hope. Toni is a speaker, host of the Still Coloring podcast, and author of several books: Don't Try This Alone, Brave Enough to be Broken, and a children's book, Broken Crayons Still Color. We were also blessed with the amazing group, The Faithtones, singing "Grace."

We are grateful that we can come together each January to give thanks and acknowledge God's grace and mercy, both corporately and individually.

12/11/2025

Great gift ideas!

11/11/2025

WCB Farms team member and shareholder, Ashley Turner was recently honored by at their Fall Harvest Luncheon. Ashley served steadfastly on The Food Mill board for eight years, four of those having served as Chair. A new award has been named in her honor for her many years of dedication and support: The Ashley Turner Community Cultivator Award. Congratulations, Ashley! Pictured: Ashley Turner (right) with The Food Mill Executive Director, Olivia Amos.

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween! 🎃 We had some awesome volunteers who participated in Trick-or-Treat this morning with our Partner In Education, River Road Elementary! The costumes were amazing. We are so grateful for our partnership. Have a safe and fun day!

08/08/2025

We recently hosted sixty 5th graders from our PIE (Partner In Education), River Road Elementary, at the W.C. Bradley Farms! The kids learned about agriculture, wildlife native to our area and were able to see a hunting dog presentation. We have been a partner with River Road Elementary since 1988. We are grateful for the opportunity to give back - serving is at the heart of what we do!

08/08/2025

We had a blast with our Partner In Education, River Road Elementary, this week welcoming students back to school! We have been partners for 37 years - truly a joy for our team. We know it will be a great year! 🍎📚✂️✏️🚌

08/03/2025

We had a great time taking a mid-afternoon break with a cool treat from - just what we needed to beat our extreme heat this past week!

07/30/2025

We are now a quarterfinalist! Thank you all for taking the time to vote for CURRENT’s Model P Smart Pizza Oven. We advanced to Round 4 in the “Coolest Thing Made in Georgia” competition - be sure to vote again by 11:30 AM ET on July 31: https://www.coolestthingmadeinga.com/voting. Each unique email gets one vote per matchup each round. You can vote as many times as you like within a round provided you use a new unique email. You do not have to vote in each bracket in order for your vote to count. You can pick which matchups you want to vote for.

The winner will be announced on Wednesday, August 20 in Columbus at the Georgia Chamber Congressional Luncheon.

Thank you for voting for CURRENT’s Model P Smart Pizza Oven!