Sentences with phrase «mechanical harvesting»

If suitable equipment is available and affordable, then mechanical harvesting could be just what the industry needs to expand and keep up with demand for locally grown cider apples.

Mechanical harvesting equipment is then used between the rows to gently shake each bush, helping to release the ripe blueberries into catchers.

SUN's effect dwarfs that of another shape gene called OVATE — yet another Tanksley discovery — and both seem to have been nurtured in Europe in the last several hundred years to ease mechanical harvesting and processing.

A new study by researchers at Washington State University shows that mechanical harvesting of cider apples can provide labor and cost savings without affecting fruit, juice or cider quality.

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.

It was a very useful mutation, as it created a natural joint at which tomatoes cleanly detach from the plant, thereby facilitating mechanical harvesting.

The short stature of mature FIN - 314 ® allows for mechanical harvesting with conventional machinery.

For example, a special tomato is just being developed for a large Italian food company that needed special properties for mechanical harvesting for the texture of the fruit, to make it suitable for a new sauce product.

«Loss» indicates the removal or mortality of > = 50 % of tree cover and can be due to a variety of factors, including mechanical harvesting, fire, disease, or storm damage.

The other issue is that mechanical harvest is likely to damage fruit, but just what this means for the final product is unknown.

Mechanical harvest is a logical solution to this challenge — except for two complications.