Cherry sorting is typically an unpopular job. Most people would rather pick, says Hugh Dendy, a Canadian who’s growing cherries in New Zealand’s Central Otago region. Dendy, who has 35 hectares (86 acres) of cherry orchard and his own small packing house near Cromwell, has devised a cherry sorting system that’s made sorters enjoy their work. Each sorter sorts individual buckets of cherries. The fruit is dumped into the central section of a plastic sorting tray. The trays are of welded plastic and are inexpensive to make, he said. The sorter moves top-grade export cherries from the center to one […]