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ABOVE: A worker with Foothills Packing places a mini watermelon on a moving packing table that is hooked to a flatbed trailer pulled by a tractor while he and his crew, along with a cutting crew, harvest the melons in a field for Dulcinea Farms and...
ABOVE: A box of Dulcinea Farms and Pacific Trellis Fruit mini watermelons sits on a flat bed trailer, ready to head to the market. BELOW: Discarded mini watermelons that didn’t make the grade are left behind in the row by the packing crew.
ABOVE: A worker with Foothills Packing stacks boxes of mini watermelon on a flatbed trailer. BELOW: Using a specialized, stainless steel harvesting knife, a member of the cutting crew harvests a mini watermelon.
ABOVE: A mini watermelon, its stripes too “wide” indicating it’s not yet ready for harvest, sits in a field in the Gila Valley waiting to picked the second time around. BELOW: Boxes of mini watermelons are stacked on a flatbed trailer.
ABOVE: A worker with Foothills Packing places a mini watermelon on a moving packing table. LEFT: A cutting crew selects mini watermelons for harvest. A packing crew follows the cutting crew through the field.