Fresh Fig Harvest & Packing (in California)

This video demonstrates how fresh figs are harvested and packed in a packinghouse.

This video was taken at J. Marchini Farms in Le Grand, California, and demonstrates how fresh figs are hand harvested into buckets in the field. The harvested product is then transported to the packinghouse to be graded, sorted and packed.

Video Chapters
0:00 Overview
0:10 Hand harvesting of figs and how the harvesters determine which figs to harvest
0:58 Figs arrive at the packinghouse and go through a quality control step
1:17 Box formation
1:27 Fig Packing house overview
1:37 Figs are packed into three different options: clamshell (primary market), green cartons (secondary market) or into a cull pile
2:28 Quality control for weight and fruit quality
2:53 Labeling and palletizing the packed boxes
3:10 Forced air cooling until further shipment

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[michaeltichael]

As a fig grower on the other side of the planet, I enjoyed this video. Figs go bad so quickly after harvesting which makes this farms scale much more respectable.

[fpsfreak]

How many feet apart should one plant the trees and how high? I'm thinking of planting 4 acres