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Workers wash freshly-picked roma type tomatoes which are delivered to the processing facility in hoppers after they are locally harvested. California's plan for cap and trade will affect food processors. Pacific Coast Producers has a tomato processing plant in Woodland that is already being asked to buy carbon credits by New York investment bankers. Wednesday, August 15, 2012. -
Frank Muller, chairman of the board at Pacific Coast Producers watches freshly-picked tomatoes enter the plant. -
Roma type tomatoes sit in hoppers after being delivered from local fields where they were just picked. -
Tomatoes float in the delivery flume where they are cleaned before they enter the processing facility. -
Roma type tomatoes head for the processing facility minutes after being unloaded from hoppers. -
Frank Muller, chairman of the board at Pacific Coast Producers looks over freshly-picked tomatoes before they enter the processing facility. -
Roma type tomatoes glisten in the sun before they head into the processing facility via a conveyor belt. -
The busy hands of workers sort out and remove poor quality tomatoes. California's plan for cap and trade will affect food processors. -
Workers sort out poor quality tomato product inside the processing facility. -
Tomatoes are checked and removed if they show poor quality. -
Workers sort out poor quality tomato product inside the processing facility. -
Workers sort through tomatoes before they are canned and cooked. -
Gallon containers - before they are sealed and cooked - are filled with tomato product. -
Steam is produced by boilers which cook the tomato products. -
Homer Perez monitors the heat in the boiler control room. -
Perez peers into a boiler where he monitors the intense flame. California's plan for cap and trade will affect food processors. Pacific Coast Producers has a tomato processing plant in Woodland that is already being asked to buy carbon credits by New York investment bankers. Wednesday, August 15, 2012.
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