We’re thrilled to extend a warm welcome to all of the new customers who have joined Hectre in the past month! Welcome and thank you for choosing Hectre as your tech partner.
Cowiche Growers, Inc.
Since 1923, Cowiche Growers Inc. has packed and shipped some of Washington State’s finest apples and pears, grown in the fertile soils of the Yakima Valley. As a grower-owned cooperative, they are committed to the preservation of the family farm embracing that honesty and integrity that goes hand in hand with their business philosophy.
Cowiche Growers will be gaining the benefits of the Spectre combo using both Spectre Hand-Held plus Spectre Top Down, enabling access to early size and color data across their operation.
Good Fruit Storage LLC
Led by the dynamic trio of Ted, Rob, and Robyn, and based in Michigan, Good Fruit Storage LLC specializes in long-term controlled atmosphere storage and cold room storage, ensuring top-notch quality produce for their customers.
To further enhance their operations, Good Fruit Storage are also implementing Hectre’s Spectre Top Down solution to gain massive fruit size and color data, directly from arriving trucks.
BelleHarvest Sales
With packing facilities placed throughout the western half of Michigan, BelleHarvest is a premier storage and packing leader of apples on the East Coast. Their main storage facility has over a half million bushel capacity. The BelleHarvest sales desk has over 50 years of produce experience providing world class service to both their customers and their growers.
With the addition of Hectre’s Spectre Hand-Held early fruit sizing solution, they will be able to more effectively track and catalog the harvest each year. Knowing better what exactly is in storage will help them to better serve their customers and growers.
Rivermaid Trading Company
Owned by childhood friends Chiles and Brian, Rivermaid Trading Company is a family farming business and leading innovator in growing, packing and shipping fresh pears and cherries to the world. Headquartered in California, Rivermaid Trading Company is a forward-thinking, vertically integrated farming enterprise.
Now with Spectre Hand-Held at their disposal, they’ll be gaining early fruit size data to further inform their decisions and streamline their operations.
Lake Ontario Fruit
Established in 1982 as a partnership among eleven local apple-growing families, Lake Ontario Fruit has evolved into a leading apple packing and storage operation in Northeastern US. Situated along the fertile and productive southern shores of Lake Ontario, their apples thrive in one of the world’s most bountiful growing regions
Lake Ontario Fruit has a belief of “Great People, Great Apples, Great Future” and we’re excited to be supporting their success with Spectre Top Down, which will deliver early size and color data, straight off the truck.
Duckwall Fruit
From a humble packing house to an internationally respected firm, Duckwall Fruit has become one of Hood River Valley’s largest pear packers, since they began in 1919. The Oregon packhouse ships premium pears to both domestic and international markets.
Duckwall Fruit will also be using Spectre Hand-Held to harness the value of early fruit size data.
Shafer Lake Fruit Inc.
Located in Hartford, Michigan, Shafer Lake Fruit, Inc. is a busy apple storage, packing and shipping facility run by a partnership of two future-focused families, the Hassle family of Berrybrook Enterprises and the Meachum family who operate High Acres Fruit Farm.
Together, the families operate a quality packing facility and use cutting-edge technology to improve their success in the marketplace. Their progressive approach has led to the adoption of Spectre Hand-Held where they’ll be gaining fruit size and color data earlier than ever before.
