Fresh strawberry supply involves growing, picking, pre
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cooling, sorting, packing and then
distributing different sized plastic containers (or punnets) of strawberries to different cus
tomers. The pre
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cooling, sorting and packing operations of Berrymore P/L all take place in
on
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farm packing sheds that are within a few hundred metres of the strawberry fifields. The
company has signed a contract to supply 120 thousand 250g punnets of premium strawber
ries to Coles supermarkets in Adelaide in June. The only Berrymore P/L farms that can
supply strawberries at that time of year are the four farms the company owns in Queensland
and Western Australia. The maximum numbers of punnets that can be supplied by these
farms in June are reported in Table