Property, Plant, and Equipment

12 Months Ended

Oct. 31, 2015

Property, Plant and Equipment [Abstract]

4. Property, Plant, and Equipment

Property, plant, and equipment consist of the following (in thousands):


	October 31,
	2015		2014

Land	$	7,023	$	7,023
Buildings and improvements		22,497		21,713
Leasehold improvements		4,810		4,435
Equipment		59,391		55,467
Information systems - hardware and software		7,839		7,564
Construction in progress		12,305		1,057
		113,865		97,259
Less accumulated depreciation and amortization		(44,417)		(39,907)
	$	69,448	$	57,352

Depreciation expense was $6.4 million, $5.3 million and $4.6 million for fiscal years 2015, 2014, and 2013, of which $0.5 million was related to depreciation on capital leases for fiscal year 2015, 2014, and 2013.

Property, plant, and equipment include various capital leases which total $3.3 million and $3.4 million, less accumulated depreciation of $2.1 million and $1.7 million as of October 31, 2015 and 2014.

The increase in construction in progress from $1.1 million as of October 31, 2014, to $12.3 million as of October 31, 2015, is due to the construction of our new processing facility in Jacksonville, Florida, and the construction of a packinghouse in Jalisco, Mexico.

We capitalize software development costs for internal use beginning in the application development stage and ending when the asset is placed into service. We amortize such costs using the straight-line basis over estimated useful lives.