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Improved asparagus harvester: Second experimental set-level, nonselective machine used to harvest test plots in commercial fields during 1957 season

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Robert A. Kepner, University of California

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California Agriculture 11(12):4-20.

Published December 01, 1957

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Relative yields of green asparagus obtained by mechanical harvesting and by hand cutting, the operational characteristics of the machine in commercial plantings, and plant growth characteristics that influence the results of set-level harvesting, were studied in field test plots on two types of soil during the 1957 cannery season.

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Robert Cowden, Senior Laboratory Technician, and Tom Clarke, Engineering Aid, Agricultural Engineering, Davis, assisted in the tests reported in the above article. The K. R. Nutting Co. and Cochran Company, Inc., cooperated in the studies.

The above progress report is based on Research Project No. 1693.

Results of tests with the first model are described in CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE for October, 1952, and September, 1954.

Improved asparagus harvester: Second experimental set-level, nonselective machine used to harvest test plots in commercial fields during 1957 season

Robert A. Kepner
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Improved asparagus harvester: Second experimental set-level, nonselective machine used to harvest test plots in commercial fields during 1957 season

California Agriculture > Volume 11 > Number 12  > research article 

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Share using any of the popular social networks Share by sending an email Print article
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Authors

Robert A. Kepner, University of California

Publication Information

California Agriculture 11(12):4-20.

Published December 01, 1957

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Author Affiliations show

Abstract

Relative yields of green asparagus obtained by mechanical harvesting and by hand cutting, the operational characteristics of the machine in commercial plantings, and plant growth characteristics that influence the results of set-level harvesting, were studied in field test plots on two types of soil during the 1957 cannery season.

Full text

Full text is available in PDF.

Author notes

Robert Cowden, Senior Laboratory Technician, and Tom Clarke, Engineering Aid, Agricultural Engineering, Davis, assisted in the tests reported in the above article. The K. R. Nutting Co. and Cochran Company, Inc., cooperated in the studies.

The above progress report is based on Research Project No. 1693.

Results of tests with the first model are described in CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE for October, 1952, and September, 1954.

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