Nighttime harvest becoming the norm - Good Fruit Grower

Nighttime harvest becoming the norm - Good Fruit Grower

A Stemilt Growers crew harvests apples by night on motorized platforms in 2014 near Quincy, Washington, just to try it out. However, the record-setting 2021 heat wave made nighttime fruit harvest more common, enough so that companies are now writing safety protocols and training workers. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)Once a last-minute reaction to record-setting heat, nighttime harvest is now common enough that farms procure lights in advance a…