Harvest begins with picking every apple by hand.

Bins full of freshly harvested fruit are pulled from the orchard rows and are ready to load onto trucks.

Trucks bring the fruit to the receiving stations.

Samples are taken from bins for inspection.

Pressure tests and starch tests are taken and logged by grower number and lot number.

Fruit is brought inside and cooled for 48 hours prior to processing.

Field bins full of apples run through the automated dumper to begin the process through the packing facilities.

Apples float down the float tanks toward the sorting tables.

Apples travel through the washer and dryer.

Apples have been cleaned and dried and are now on their way to the color sorter.

The color sorting equipment sorts out color grades.

The step of sorting by hand is still needed.

Apples now have passed the sorting tables and travel down lanes to the individual sizing lanes.

Before fruit is ready to travel to the packing equipment, apples are stickered with a PLU number.

Sizing keeps the fruit a consistent size. Each lane take fruit down the line and is dropped into the appropriate place for packing.

Apples go through a final hand sorting, then are placed on trays, and packed into shipping cartons. The cartons are palletized and moved into the cooler until shipment