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WSU Team attends the ISHS Symposium on Mechanical Harvesting & Handling Systems of Fruits & Nuts, April 2012, Orlando, Florida

Pictured left to right:  Karen Lewis, Qin Zhang, Karina Gallardo, Matt Whiting, Long He, Jianfeng (Austin) Zhou.

 

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Research Updates:

 

Project Goals:

This research project’s long-term goal is to improve the sustainability of the U.S. sweet cherry industry by developing a highly efficient, production, processing, and marketing system for fresh market quality sweet cherries. 

Sweet cherry harvest is one of the most labor-intensive of all agricultural endeavors.

  • The hand harvest process for sweet cherries accounts for approximately 60% of annual production costs.

  • The adoption of a mechanical and/or mechanical assist harvest system for sweet cherries has the potential to revolutionize the sweet cherry industry with labor savings and improved fruit quality.

 

 

 

 

Research Team Partners:

          

Funded by the 2009 NIFA USDA Specialty Crop Research Initiative

 

 

 

                  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     
 
 
 
 
   
 
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