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New Shipping Containers for Fresh Western Cherries: Costs, Performance, and Trade Acceptance

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  • Hinsch, Robert Tom
  • Fountain, James B.
  • Rij, Roger E.

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Excerpts from the report: Approximately three-fourths of the sweet cherry crop sold fresh in the United States is produced in California, Washington, and Oregon. The jumble-filled wood box has been the most commonly used container for shipping fresh cherries to market since 1960. The purpose of this study was to find out (1) how much the cost of marketing fresh western cherries by air and by rail could be reduced if they were packed and shipped in fiberboard and polystyrene foam boxes instead of in wood boxes and (2) whether the injury to cherries would be greater or less by packing them in fiberboard boxes and in polystyrene foam boxes than by packing them in wood boxes.

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  • Hinsch, Robert Tom & Fountain, James B. & Rij, Roger E., 1971. "New Shipping Containers for Fresh Western Cherries: Costs, Performance, and Trade Acceptance," Marketing Research Reports 313655, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation and Marketing Program.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uamsmr:313655
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.313655
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