date:Aug 20, 2021
achinery, made in the Netherlands, will reduce labor costs and speed up processing times. The farm introduced the processing line and a new barn to house it on Saturday.
With four lanes and 16 automated sections sorting the tomatoes, the box is packed by itself, DeBackere said. The only human labor required is to put the box on, empty it, and take it off. With the old machine, employees had to walk through the processing line to identify and pack tomatoes into a box a process that was slow and