The Shepherd's Son LLC

Knouse Foods, located in Peach Glen, Pa., is a cooperative fruit processor that produces food items, including apple butter, apple juice, apple sauce, pie filling, cherries and vinegar. Founded in 1949, Knouse owns an 80,000 square foot storage facility in Peach Glen. The facility contains 18 controlled atmosphere rooms, which enables it to regulate temperature and humidity, as well as oxygen and carbon dioxide content. Each of the rooms are 2,746 square feet and can hold 31 tractor loads of apples per room, allowing for total storage of 558,000 bushels. The company also operates processing plants in Chambersburg, Biglerville, Gardner and Orrtanna, Pa.; Paw Paw, Mich., and Inwood, W. Va. Knouse distributes their products to retailers and foodservice operations and provides a variety of packaging and packing solutions.

Rice Fruit Company, founded in 1913, is one of the largest apple packing facilities in the eastern United States. It receives, stores, and packs more than a million boxes of Pennsylvania apples annually. The company offers more than 20 varieties of apples, including red delicious, golden delicious, royal gala, empire, Fuji, mutsu, Rome, stayman and Granny Smith. Its apples are stored year-round in state-of-the-art controlled atmosphere storages, and packed to specification using the electronic color-sorting equipment and electronic sizers. Varieties of pears offered by the company include barlett, red barlett, shinseiki, niitaka, bosc, seckel and Asian pears. It also offers a variety of peaches, such as nectarine, yellow, white and donut peaches. Rice Fruit Company is headquartered in Gardners, Pa.