Duckwall Fruit Turns 100

Duckwall Fruit is celebrating in July its 100th year of operation.  The Odell fruit packer started up in 1919 when the Duckwall brothers, John and William St. Clair, shipped apples from Hood River to Indianapolis, and returns were better than that of neighboring growers who asked to be included in the following year’s shipment.  John Duckwall’s son and company CEO Fred Duckwall says the company established the first independent cold storage in 1935, and moved to a central location in Odell in 1958.  Duckwall Fruit and Pooley Fruit Company merged in 1971, and Duckwall Fruit currently packages over 2.25 million cartons of pears that are grown by over 70 growers on 115 separate farms.

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