Edgar Salar drops boxes down a chute to workers at the new cherry processing facility operated by Blue Bird Inc. during a mid-June packing run in Wenatchee, Washington. The facility replaces a $10 million facility destroyed by a 2015 wildfire. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower) Eleven months to the day after a wildfire destroyed a packing house in central Washington, one of the Northwest’s oldest grower cooperatives reopened to cherry packing there with a new line that is bigger and more sophisticated than the one it lost. That speaks to the speed at which new technologies are coming to market on […]