Bill Tos of Tos Orchards said that while the family farm has grown through the years, they haven’t taken the vertical integration step of packing their own fruit. The Tos family has one of the few large, contiguous stone fruit farms in the San Joaquin Valley. They take advantage of having their tree fruit blocks in one location and strive for efficiencies in labor, tree training, and harvest. With 400 acres of peaches, plums, nectarines, and Pluots, third-generation family farmer Bill Tos of Hanford, California, said the large orchard gives them lots of advantages and efficiencies that others who have […]