To address the first challenge, Miles and her team used a mechanical raspberry harvesting machine to pick Brown
Snout cider apples, a variety grown at the research center.
Miles and King performed a 2 - year study of «Brown
Snout» bittersweet specialty
cider apple (grafted onto M. 27 and East Malling / Long Ashton 9 rootstocks) to compare the total weight of harvested fruit, labor hours for harvest, tree and fruit damage, and fruit and juice quality for traditional hand harvest and mechanical harvest using an over-the-row small fruit harvester.