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Three weeks of agricultural visits in Australia 2021-12-22

Cucumbers growing on a plant just prior to harvest. Gherkins are not a crop one encounters very often, but when we visited Ben Parle near Griffith in New South Wales on the ITLUS tour last January, we discovered that his father’s business is the sole supplier of this product to McDonalds in Australia. A trailer load of small cucumbers on their way from the harvester to be transformed into gherkins. Gherkins are really immature cucumbers, but a specific variety that can survive the pickling p...