McIntyre Fruit visit 2020

A beautiful bunch of cherries

Cherries protected in the tree

The cherries are ll grown in polytunnels

Matthew McIntyre

A 'high tech' solution to catching wasps designed by a Bulgarian agronomist

The cherry orchard sits on the highest ground to get the latest fruit.

These are new trees on a temporary structure, they will be trained to grow at a 45 degree angle.

The pack house in Blairgowrie

The grader is from STAS

The cherries are graded on colour, size and quality.

Reinier Wernsen - Operations Director of Blairgowrie Fruit Packers Ltd.

Each cherry is photographed

The cherries are sorted into nine different lines

Elips technology photographs the fruit.

The packhouse has had perspex screens installed to make it COVID safe for the workers.

Matthew and the new hydrocooler

The hydrocooler cools the cherries in 3-4 hours, so the fruit can now be picked and packed same day.

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