Primocanes are topped by hand during the growing season at about 3'. The subsequent branches are not pruned by hand, but rather a hedgerow is maintained by machine pruning in winter. The old floricanes are not removed, but are left in the row to add support and eventually break off and decompose. There is usually no trellis used. Irrigation, as for all the blackberries grown in Oregon, is usually done with moveable overhead impact sprinklers.
Harvest is done by hand in early morning.
Fruit for fresh market are rapidly cooled, often by forced air and are packaged for shipping. Most of the seeds must be removed as they are much larger than those of 'Marion', for example. The intended market for most of this acreage is fresh. All of the acreage is hand harvested. Plantings are established in spring from tissue culture.