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'First commercial
robotic apple harvest'
hits New Zealand
UFO peach system finds
favor at Windy Ridge
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Farm marketers share
produce knowledge
with customers
May 2019 | Volume 58 |
Issue 5
ELEVATED BENEFITS
Colorado peach growers tout flavor
From left, Nathan, Bruce, Charlie, Trevor, Joe (foreground) and Harry Talbott. Photos: Talbott's Mountan Gold Farm.
By Gary Pullano
Managing Editor
Talbott's Mountain Gold Farm is
located in Palisade, Colorado, which
is west of Denver and just slightly east
of Grand Junction. The operation's
packing/processing facilities and
retail market are located on Palisade's
fruit and wine byway and attracts
visitors from long distances.
Taking the lead from their father
Harry Talbott, Bruce Talbott and his
brothers have built the family's strong
farming foundation into a diverse
agricultural operation that produces
peaches, pears, cherries, winegrapes,
juices and ciders - sweet and hard.
Bruce Talbott was a speaker at the
Michigan Spring Peach Meeting held in
March in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
Talbott's great-grandfather started
planting peaches in 1907. The current
business was incorporated by his
grandfather in 1962.
" I enjoy the opportunity to work with
my brothers, " Bruce Talbott said. " I
enjoy having a common purpose and a
common goal. "
It is a fifth-generation operation (with
See TALBOTT, page 5
Structure drives orchard outlook
By Gary Pullano
Managing Editor
With heightened attention being
given to labor-saving robotic harvesters
and other innovative tools for tree fruit
growers, a continued concentration
is being given to the development
of orchard planting systems that
will be able to accommodate such
breakthroughs.
In recent years, researchers have
indicated the optimum planting density
will likely remain close to 1,000 apple
trees per acre. As growers become more
adept at managing this density, they
will likely plant slightly closer, with
densities close to 1,300 trees per acre. If
they adopt summer shearing to reduce
cost and maintain a narrow canopy
wall, they will slowly move from 12 feet
between the rows to 11, 10 or even 9
feet between rows.
Future systems likely will continue to
utilize highly-branched trees for high
early yields. The only exception to this
rule will be those growers who choose
to plant very high tree densities (more
than 1,500 trees per acre), where the
cost of feathered trees is too high and
the value of feathers is too low due to
the small in-row spaces.
Apple
orchard
architecture
trends
were on
full display
during an
International
Fruit Tree Association (IFTA) Tour of
New Zealand in early 2018.
The Future Orchard Production
High-Tech Tools
2019
System (FOPS) was in place at one of
T&G Global's commercial orchards.
EnzaFruit Products is the U.S.
See SYSTEMS, page 8

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