Plastic bulk containers in Fresno

Fresno and Madera counties sit in the middle of the San Joaquin Valley, where tree fruit, grapes, raisins, almonds and pistachios are grown and packed. Fruit and vegetable preserving runs at 6.5 times its national share of jobs here, with 3,355 jobs in the disclosed counties in 2025; meat and poultry add 6,499 and food manufacturing 13,497.

The valley uses harvest bins of every kind. Stone fruit and table grapes go in solid bins; wine and raisin grapes in solid bins that hold juice; almonds and pistachios in vented bins at the huller. Growers here usually buy by the truckload and mark bins so they come back from the packer.

Fresno's 93725, south of downtown along Highway 99, has more warehousing establishments than any other ZIP in the metro, 30 in 2023. Warehousing had 5,006 jobs in Fresno County, and beverage manufacturing 1,655.

Fresno County is among the most productive farm counties in the country, growing grapes for raisins and wine, almonds, pistachios and stone fruit. Raisins dry on paper trays between the vine rows and are then collected into bins.

Fresno buyers need vented bins for almonds, pistachios and walnuts at the huller, solid bins for wine grapes at crush, and shallow bins for peaches, plums and nectarines, which bruise easily. Raisin packers want bins for dried fruit moving into the packing line. Bins are needed before the summer harvest.

Citrus grows on the valley's east side.