Jade Wisniewski stacks lugs of Sweetheart cherries in a bin at Howard Hansen’s orchard. The planting is covered by a hail net. At Howard Hansen’s cherry packing operation, every single cherry is checked before it goes in the box. Hansen, who operates CR and RK Hansen orchard and fruit packing company at Grove, Tasmania, knows that in order to beat the competition from other Southern Hemisphere suppliers he must ship large, high quality cherries. Many of the cherries he packs are shipped by air to the United Kingdom, Europe, or the United States, where they compete against cherries that have […]