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The Effect of Urea Fertilization Method and Moisture Content at Harvest Time on Mechanical Properties of Dried Corn

Journal of Agricultural Machinery, 2014
Mechanical properties of grain are influenced by various factors including soil nutrients and grain moisture content at harvest time. In order to reduce mechanical losses, the design of different processing operations should be performed based on the ...
S Kordi, A Fadavi, M Eskandari, M Barari, M Rafiee, A Ashraf Mehrabi   +5 more
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Mechanical aids to sweet potato harvest

California Agriculture, 1969
APPROXIMATELY 9,000 acres of sweet potatoes are grown annually in California, with Merced County accounting for more than 60 per cent of this total acreage. Fresno, Stanislaus, San Joaquin, and Kern counties grow the remaining 40 per cent of the acreage.
M Zahara, R Scheuerman
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Mechanical Damage Of Strawberry During Harvest And Postharvest Operations

Acta Technologica Agriculturae, 2015
Strawberry is a non-climacteric fruit with a limited harvesting period. Because of high susceptibility to mechanical damage, strawberry has a small postharvest life. In this research, an experiment was designed to study the mechanical damage phenomena in
Aliasgarian Saeed, Ghassemzadeh Hamid R., Moghaddam Mohammad, Ghaffari Hossein   +3 more
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Sustainable Substrate Management in Soilless Tomato Cultivation: Combined Effects of Biochar and Wood Distillate on Plant Growth and Fruit Mechanical Properties

Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment
Tomato production increasingly requires high‐yield plants and fruits with enhanced firmness and resistance to mechanical damage in order to reduce post‐harvest losses.
Anna Agosti, Valeria Gianguzzi, Samreen Nazeer, Valeria Guarrasi, Angela Paterna, Estella Rao, Alfio Daniele Romano, Martina Papa, Nicolina Timpanaro, Margherita Amenta, Benedetta Chiancone   +10 more
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Mechanical Harvest of Southern Highbush Blueberries: Influence of Harvest Interval, Delay to Impact, and Pulp Temperature at Impact on Postharvest Quality

Horticulturae
Fresh market blueberry (Vaccinium spp.) fruits are fragile and experience numerous impacts during harvest, packing, and shipping. Mechanical harvest of southern highbush blueberries (SHB) is being increasingly implemented due to rising costs and limited ...
Adrian Berry, Steven Sargent, Merce Santana, Jeffrey Williamson, Sonya Stahl   +4 more
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Disease incidence of Monilinia fructigena coupled with codling moth damage and mechanical injury in an organic apple orchard

International Journal of Horticultural Science, 2013
In a two-year-study, disease incidence of Monilinia fructigena were quatified and the importance of certain fruit wounding agents was determined. The first infected fruits were observed at the beginning of August in 2011 and 2012. Disease development was
I. J. Holb
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Basics of seed harvesting [PDF]

Selekcija i Semenarstvo, 2005
A review of seed-related literature has shown that there is no an integral text on seed crop harvesting. Simultaneously, analyses and descriptions of a number of elements of harvesting process have been found and general principles derived on their basis.
Mirić Mladen, Babić Momčilo, Molnar Imre   +2 more
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Freestanding‐Mode Tribovoltaic Nanogenerator for Harvesting Sliding and Rotational Mechanical Energy [PDF]

, 2023
Sicheng Dong, Tianzhao Bu, Zhaozheng Wang, Yuan Feng, Guoxu Liu, Jianhua Zeng, Zhihao Wang, Jie Cao, Zhi Zhang, Feng Liu, Chi Zhang   +10 more
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Visual analysis of fruit harvesting machine based on CiteSpace [PDF]

Guoshu xuebao
[Objective] In the context of the acceleration of agricultural modernization, the development of fruit harvesting machinery is of great significance for improving the production efficiency of fruit industry and reducing labor costs.
YANG Daorina, ZHANG Fengkui, WANG Yulong, HE Ruohong, ZHU Jikui, LI Ping   +5 more
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ANALYSIS OF THE MAIN FACTORS INFLUENCING THE QUALITY OF WINE FROM MECHANICALLY HARVESTED GRAPES

Journal of Agricultural Engineering, 2009
The present paper consisted in the study of the main factors influencing the quality of wines produced from mechanically harvested grapes. In particular, 8 samples of grape clusters were examined, different for the harvesting technique, grape juice ...
Pietro Catania, Mariangela Vallone, Felice Pipitone   +2 more
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