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The results of a study undertaken in the Western Australian apple industry suggest that what growers want from their downstream buyers and what they actually receive as a result of their transactions with their preferred trading partners are vastly different. While most growers want a return that is commensurate with the effort they put in, the prices offered by market intermediaries generally leave the growers dissatisfied. In order to reduce the risk and the uncertainty associated with the exchange, growers will invariably seek to establish long-term relationships with preferred trading partners. However, many customers prefer to maintain arms-length transactions and seem generally unwilling to provide the growers with either market information or technical advice.

An interview with Mr. Wiley in which he describes life in early Manatee County, the towns of Bradenton and Manatee, and the families and businesses that populated the area. Interview conducted by Libby Warner

An interview with Mr. Hall in which he discusses his early life, and working at an ice-packing house in Palmetto.

A semi-truck of apples is unloaded at Tropicana Industries. The company bottles fruit juice for worldwide distribution.

Citrus Packer staff of the Domino Citrus Association and the Florida Growers Exchange pose with boxes of the packed fruit in front of the packing plant. Full crates of fruit are stored under a shelter at left awaiting transport and empty crates are stacked near the building at right.

Workers sit down and pose for the camera at the Grapefruit Canning Plant. All work of sorting and cutting were done by human workers. There are no labor saving devices visible.

A view of a pineapples in a greenhouse in Manatee County. The first pineapples in the county were grown in the Pollard pinery. Talbot Sharp Pollard arrived in Palmetto from Indiana in 1895. The following winter he returned with his family, bought land near Palmetto. With competition from Cuba and the Caribbean islands, the venture was not a commercial success. Later pineapples were grown elsewhere on family farms.

Picking fruit in the Atwood Grapefruit Grove. One man stands on a ladder while a another man drives a horse or mule wagon loaded with citrus. One of the heavy grapefruit picking boxes lies on the ground near the ladder. Kimble Atwood came to Manatee County in 1890 and purchased 265 acres at Manavista on the Manatee River in 1892.

Domino Citrus Association's office with the Manatee Growers packing plant for the Florida Citrus Exchange in the background. The Manatee County Growers Association formed in 1918.

Grapefruit canning plant. The citrus growers along the Manatee River founded the Manatee County Growers in 1918 and began a packing house.

Photograph showing workers at the Maryland Orchards Corporation loading boxed apples outside of the packing shed at the Picardy, Maryland location.

Photograph of workers in the apple packing shed of the American Fruit Growers, in Tonoloway, Maryland. Depicted are the grading tables over which apples are run to be sorted before being packed in barrels.

Photograph showing workers at the Maryland Orchards Corporation loading boxed apples outside of the packing shed at the Picardy, Maryland location.

Two men sit in a horse-drawn parade float sponsored by the Stacy Fruit Company. Many crates of fruit are visible on the back of the cart. Patriotic bunting decorates the float.

A truck from Henry Smith Florist filled to capacity with a load of fruit. One black and white photograph.

A truck labeled Penfold & Peppard Company Wholesale Fruit and Produce filled with crates in front of a building with the same name. There is damage to the original especially along the right side. One black and white photograph.

Photograph of workers in the apple packing shed of the American Fruit Growers, in Tonoloway, Maryland. Depicted are the grading tables over which apples are run to be sorted before being packed in barrels.

The men standing wear cloth bags across their chests to hold the apples as they pick them., Oliver Frank “Trixie” Kelly was a Methodist preacher who operated his own photographic gallery as a hobby on State Street in downtown South Whitley, Indiana from the 1890’s until the 1940’s. As a local photographer, Kelly did most of his own work in and around South Whitley and the nearby town of Collamer in Whitley County.

Men are in the tree picking apples. They put the fruit in cloth bags worn across their chests., Oliver Frank “Trixie” Kelly was a Methodist preacher who operated his own photographic gallery as a hobby on State Street in downtown South Whitley, Indiana from the 1890’s until the 1940’s. As a local photographer, Kelly did most of his own work in and around South Whitley and the nearby town of Collamer in Whitley County.

The Knox County Horticultural Society and Extension Service created this promotional fruit display and won a First Premium at the 1933 State Fair.

The "A Century of Progress" exhibit located in the Fruit Growers display section during the 1933 State Fair was put together by A.C. Hainlen and Sons, from Converse, in Howard County, Indiana.

Knox County fruit and educational exhibit on display at the Indiana State Fair highlights the orchards in that county.