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Trusting the process for processing apples
Northwest growers find niche, efficiencies in process market. Efrain Vargas checks quality in bins of Ambrosia apples grown specifically for processing in September at Fuller Orchards in Tieton, Washington, an organic farm that has pivoted to the process market to stay profitable. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower) Dan Fuller has shifted from fresh pack to the processor market, variety by variety, over the past 15 years. Dan Fuller He’s almost 100 percent processing now and doesn’t plan to return. “I just can’t picture how good it would have to get before I would change back,” said Fuller, a second-generation Tieton, Washington, orchardist. Fuller has about 125 acres of apples, […]
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