Cornell College Affiliate Professor of Horticulture Gregory Peck Ph.D and Indignant Orchard Head Cidermaker Joe Gaynor present an in depth examine of mechanical instruments for orchards of all sizes.
The presentation passed off at CiderCon2023.
No have to be an orchardist to get pleasure from this matter on mechanical harvesting of apples. A few of these similar instruments introduced are additionally utilized in vineyards for harvesting grapes. Notably attention-grabbing for cider followers and makers alike, is the debunking the parable that apples that fall on the bottom can’t be used to make cider. Dr Peck offers an awesome overview on this matter.
Matters within the Mechanical Harvesting Presentation
- Comparability of Cider Economies of New York, US and UK
- Bush Cider Orchards – extensive row spacing for mechanical harvesting
- Cumulative Web Current Worth (NPV) utilizing Outsourced Machine Harvesting (~$300/acre)
- Is it Worthwhile to Develop Cider Apples in NY?
- The price of hand choosing – Labor in America
- Cumulative NPV at Varied Returns utilizing Hand or Machine Harvesting
- Tree-row sweeping and choosing up
- Harvesting off the bottom
- How mechanical harvesting impacts the fruit
- Choices for Small, Medium and Giant scale operations
- Conclusions of this examine
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Contact data for Gregory Peck
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