Posted by RBoots on April 03, 2016 at 16:22:10 from (97.32.139.146):
In Reply to: pickles posted by RusselAZ on April 03, 2016 at 13:10:10:
Lots of cucumbers grown in Gratiot County, which is just east of RRLund. As he said, it is all mechanized now pretty much. There is a small pickle plant/factory in central Gratiot Co, called Sparks Pickle Co. The pickles soak in their brine in these deep tanks that are mostly in the ground. I was told the are about 15' deep. They are probably 10-15' across, and there are LOTS of these tanks out there. I don't know what kind of pickles they make, but it sure has a funny smell when they remove them from those vats and when they truck them through Ithaca in huge plastic totes with open tops. I heard they take them somewhere where they are "finished out", maybe they are sold to the place that finishes them out, I don't know for sure. Sparks Pickle Company uses almost all IH tractors, and has a " timeline" of tractors working around there, from new to ones from the 60's. The pickle harvesting seems sort of wasteful, kind of like potatoes, many of the farmers are contracted to a certain size from what I've been told, and the machine sorts them and spits out the over and undersized ones. There is cucumbers left all over the field when they are done, just like potatoes, and there is nothing wrong with them, they are good eating.
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