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  • November 2010 Issue
  • Story by Richard Lehnert, Good Fruit Grower

    • From growing and selling

    Last year, Riveridge Produce Marketing, Inc., sold about a third of all the apples produced for wholesale fresh-market sale in Michigan, about 3.5 million boxes. Don Armock, president of the company located on Fruit Ridge a few miles north of Grand Rapids, figured the number was 36 percent last year. Nearly half of Michigan’s 20-million-bushel average crop of apples still goes into processed products, but Riveridge is the state’s largest seller of apples for fresh ­market. In August, the company entered the apple packing business, working from a newly renovated 72,000-square-foot facility equipped with state-of-the-art Compac InVision 5000IR sorting equipment […]

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    Richard Lehnert, Good Fruit Grower
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    Richard Lehnert
    After growing up on a Michigan dairy farm, Richard Lehnert began writing about farming in 1962, while still a junior studying journalism at Michigan State University. He worked at newspapers for a year before joining the staff of Michigan Farmer, where he spent 26 years, the last 15 as chief editor. He was a member of the staff of Good Fruit Grower from 2010 until 2015. Read his stories: Story Index
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