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WINTER PRUNING
Moog Inc., a western New York-based
aerospace and defense company with a
growing digital agriculture branch. He
said the company previously worked in
California almond orchards.
The goal would be a Moog autonomous
vehicle that rolls through orchards to
count buds and estimate tree diameter
with a vision system. The goal would
be to store and process the information
in a cloud-based computer system and
provide pruning suggestions to a grower
via a phone, headset or helmet.
" There's a period of time between
green tip and bloom ... when we think
counting can be most accurate and there
are few leaves to occlude fruit, " Robinson
said. " And we think that information will
allow the grower to make adjustments in
pruning and thinning - and especially
at thinning time - to end up with exact
numbers of fruits on that tree. "
Eventually - in an age where automated
harvesting is being explored - a system for
automated pruning may be incorporated
into the project, Robinson said.
Multi-state research
Pruning practices can vary greatly by
apple tree cultivar and the growing region,
so colleagues across the country will work
to develop numbers for those particulars.
" For example, with Honeycrisp, if you
hang too many apples on the tree, and
you possibly can get away with it that
year and still have decent quality but you
end up with no bloom the next year, "
Robinson said.
" And for Galas, it seems to me,
without having any hard data, that
(Washington growers) can hang more
Galas on the tree and still get more
80-count (sized) apples than we can
in New York because they have more
sunshine and better temperatures.
States will also track varieties tied
to their growers, for instance, Cosmic
Crisp in Washington and SnapDragon in
New York. But Galas - the country's top
Colleagues in
collaboration
Cornell University's Terence
Robinson works with horticulturalists,
engineers and economists around the
country to research precision crop
load management.
The research team includes:
Washington State University
* Stefano Musacchi
* Karen Lewis (Extension)
Michigan State University
* Todd Einhorn
* Phil Schwallier (Extension)
Cornell University
* Terence Robinson
* Lailiang Cheng
* Greg Peck
* Mario Miranda Sazo (Extension)
* Craig Kahlke (Extension)
* Yun Jiang (engineering)
* Miguel Gomez (economics)
Penn State University
* Paul Heinemann
* Daeun Dana Choi
* Long He (engineering)
North Carolina State University
* Thomas M. Kon
Virgina Tech
* Sharif Sharif
University of Massachusetts
* Jon Clements (Extension)
Moog Inc.
* Chris Layer (engineering)
Consultant
* Rod Farrow (grower)
apple in terms of sales volume - will be a
constant throughout experiments in the
different states.
" They all will have Gala - that will
give us a cross-climate comparison, "
Robinson said. FGN
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