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Which is why the trend should lead towards seasonal offers when it comes to fresh foods such as fruit and vegetables. WHAT ARE REGIONAL PRODUCTS? However, there are no legal regulations that define what the “regional” term means, exactly—not in Germany, nor throughout Europe. ...
But compressed air is also used to move large volumes of loose products, such as flour, grain and plastic pellets or to sort products like fruit, nuts or rejected produce on conveyor belts. ...
September is the time of intensive harvesting in orchards and on plantations. We recently visited our customer while harvesting plums with the MAJA AUTOMATIC LK machine. Fruit grower – Wojtek produces mainly plums, sour cherries and black currants on his farm. He has picked up fruit in his orchard by hand so far. He worked alone with his wife and daughters and hired additional staff. ...
Details: Kyminasi Plant Booster (KPB) technology was installed on 4 acres of their blueberries in December 2019 and harvested in August 2020. Post-harvest quality measurements were completed after 30 days of storage at ...
When did it start to be applied? BRIEF HISTORY OF OPTICAL SORTING Optical Sorting is not a 21st century thing. The idea as such emerged in the first decades of the 20th century. Following the desire (and need) to automate more efficiently the industrial sorting of agricultural products such as fruits and vegetables, and automated ...
That is the reason why supermarket shelves nowadays lay filled with bags and trays of portioned fruits; sliced apple, diced mango, trays with mixed fruits and shakers filled with blueberries and cherry-tomatoes. Especially during the summer, pre-packed fruits in bags and trays are in popular demand by consumers. Pre-packed fruits ...
Making your own organic plant food is easy and fun. It should be noted that most people understand that the best way to get good garden soil is to compost to amend the soil. Plants fertilizers purchased from the local garden center often contain chemicals that may harm your plants, and are not environmentally friendly. Nearly all organic waste go directly to the trash can or garbage disposal; a ...
Mike, our Agronomist, was recently asked a few questions about irrigation and nutrition for a magazine. What quality parameters can be influenced (fruit size, flavour, firmness, shelf life, etc.)? All crop quality parameters can be enhanced through correct use of nutrition. Having the ideal strength and balance of nutrients at all stages of the crop cycle will help to ensure the best product ...
Though firmness has been popularly used to assess the quality of fruit, fruit dry matter is now increasingly being used instead. It is necessary to understand both traits to find the reason behind this shift in preference. Dry Matter When water is removed from produce, what is left are the solids, or the dry matter. The dry matter (DM) of plants is made up of many soluble compounds, called the ...
Integrate Specim FX Cameras to your quality control and sorting processes to enhance their capability in product inspection and process analytics. ...
Arid agricultural regions often turn to using treated wastewater (reclaimed water) for irrigation of food crops. Concerns arise, however, when considering the potential for persistent contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) to accumulate into plants intended for human consumption. This work examined the accumulation of a suite of nine CECs into two representative food crops, lettuce and ...
The Terrestrial Residue EXposure (T‐REX) model, a spreadsheet‐based model developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), is used to estimate the concentrations of pesticides on some representative avian terrestrial food items following a foliar pesticide application. T‐REX uses 5 or 6 categories of food items to assess exposure for birds. Different body size classes are used to ...
In major strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa) production areas, fruit are harvested continuously for 4 to 6 mo. During the season, weekly yields vary. To improve weekly forecasts, a yield prediction equation was developed for ‘Strawberry Festival’ using input variables derived from flower counts and temperature data over two seasons in Florida. Weekly yields are dependent on the number, size, and ...