Wapato / Washington / United States
Pride Packing of Wapato, Wash. is a family operation founded in 1974 farming more than 14,000 acres of peaches, nectarines, apples and pears and packs and ships to customers throughout the United States and around the world. Pride brings more than 30,000 bins of fresh fruit into the warehouse every year. Crops are harvested at the end of August through the end of October and then the fruit is held through the first of January in regular storage and through June in controlled atmosphere storage rooms. Pride operates three 2,000-bin rooms, three 1,000-bin rooms, two 1,900-bin rooms, and one room each that holds 2,500-bins, 1,500-bins and 1,800-bins, respectively. All these are used for cold storage. The firm also has two additional 2,000-bin rooms that can be used as either controlled atmosphere or conventional storage. Besides regular packing operations, Pride also puts up a specialty combination pack that includes both apples and oranges. Premium labels include Merit O Pride and Marys pride.
