Fruit and vegetable packing

The steps are similar across crops – receive, sort, grade, wash, pack, store, ship – but each crop adds its own rules on tare, curing, grading and pack formats.

Farmsoft · Updated 25 October 2026 · 2 min read

Key points

Deduct tare at receival so growers are paid on net weight.
Grade results per lot drive packout, pricing and grower statements.
Pack from bins, trailers or bulk stores – but always against a lot.
Crop-specific QC templates keep inspections consistent.

The common process

Receive – weigh, deduct tare, record grower, field and variety, label each bin.
Store or cure – cool rooms, bulk stores or curing rooms by lot.
Sort and grade – remove defects, size and grade, record the result per lot.
Wash – potable water, sanitiser checks, drying.
Pack – to customer spec, with labels printed for the right customer and product.
Store and ship – FIFO picking, scan-verified loading, invoice.

Potatoes

Pack from bins, direct from trailers or from bulk storage rooms and silos. Deduct tare on delivery, wash, sort and grade, then pack bags or totes to order. See potato packing software.

Fruit and vegetable packing – illustration 1

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Carrots

Washing, polishing and grading by length and diameter generate significant waste; recording it per lot shows where yield is lost. See carrot packing software.

Onions

Curing and long-term storage dominate onion economics. Track loss and condition by bay and release stock by age or condition. See onion packing software.

Fruit and vegetable packing – illustration 2

Sweet potatoes and apples

Both depend on storage: sweet potatoes after curing, apples in regular and controlled-atmosphere rooms for months. Shrink per room is the key number. See sweet potato and apple packing.