Our cucumber processing facility includes over 70,000 square feet with 2 Backus 12 drop cucumber graders, fresh cucumber crate lines, and a hydro cooler.  Our cucumbers are unloaded from the field trailers with water and separated according to diameter and length. A tractor-trailer load of pickling cucumbers can be graded every fifteen minutes.

Nash Produce’s growers produce a total of approximately 2,000 acres of pickling cucumbers for the spring and fall crops.  Harvesting is all done by hand with hundreds of pickers needed.  We are gentle with the crop as to ensure quality.

For processing, pickling cucumbers can be separated into twelve grades and are sold bulk or in forty-two bushel bins. For fresh market pickling cucumbers are processed and placed in bins according to size graded a second time before being packed in 1 1/9 or ½ bushel crates. After packing all products are immediately run through a hydro cooler and shipped or held in our coolers with high humidity.

Pickling-Cucumbers

Pickling Cucumbers are available as follows:

Fresh Market Sizes:

Fresh market shipments begin late May to early June for the spring crop and September in the fall.