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| US: Strawberry fields endeavor | | | | 2009-10-12 9:23:53 | | | The new season is dawning for the area's sweetest crop.
Strawberry plants are being shipped in by the millions from nurseries in Nova Scotia, Ontario, California and the North Carolina mountains. Workers at farms from Antioch to Hopewell are busy putting them into the ground in anticipation of a harvest that will begin in about a month.
Caine Moose, the shipping and receiving manager at BBI Produce in Dover, said he has more than 1.5 million plants in cold storage as the planting season gets under way.
"Each variety of strawberry plant comes to us in refrigerated trucks, boxed in bundles of 200 to 400 per box, depending on the shipper," Moose said. "We keep the plants boxed and stored at between 35 and 40 degrees."
BBI's coolers cover 21,000 square feet of space in three rooms. Workers wear winter clothing when loading and unloading trucks that back up to the cooler doors.
"In the beginning of the strawberry season we store the individual plants," Moose said. "During harvest times we receive and quick-chill the picked strawberries in the individual flats. The flats remain chilled to just above freezing until they are ready to ship."
Three Star Farms has about 100 acres in strawberries in fields just north and east of the BBI coolers. Several growers are supplied from the BBI coolers, including Three Star Farms, Favorite Farms and others.
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