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<br />and spinach to the marketplace. There has been a considerable shift of summer lettuce to <br />the central growing regions of California. The constant hail threat in our region has been <br />given as the primary reason for that shift. <br /> <br />In the past three years our company has worked extremely hard in developing a <br />summer lettuce supply program for Fresh Express, Inc., the largest packaged salad <br />processor in North America. The success of this project is predicated on the requirement <br />of providing quality supplies six days a week for the entire summer shipping season. <br />Without the protection provided by the hail cannons, Fresh Express would not have been <br />involved in this growing region. Consistency of supply is their # 1 requirement. <br /> <br />The same situation applies to our spinach crop. Our customers are major regional <br />processors who have contracted weekly volumes with their customers - the major <br />supermarkets throughout the East. Once again, consistency of supply is the rule. If we <br />experierll,e;: h"i! d"ulagc that CtIrtails our supjilie.s-dufing the ~hippiJlg sea.on, w"loRe our <br />place in the marketplace. <br /> <br />Since we have implemented this program in 1996, we have experienced minimal <br />problems with the hail peril and have been able to establish our region as a viable, <br />reliable shipping district. <br /> <br />As an interesting footnote, since our program began, Mike Eggers LID has <br />instaiied over fifty-nine other cannons throughout the United States a.'ld there are over <br />eighty-six hail cannons operating in various regions of this country as of May of2000. <br />