date:Dec 19, 2016
We have a seasonal fresh cherry program and started with a year-round frozen cherry program in 2013, says Julie McLachlan with Jealous Fruits. For our fresh program, we have a 1 percent defect-in-the-box requirement. Industry wide, up to 15 percent defects is allowed. In the past, we would sell the product with defects as a 2nd grade product, but now we can sell it into our frozen program, McLachlan added. The percentage of defects varies from year to year and largely depends on the weather. Nor