February 2, 2010

Citrus Mechanical Harvesting Field Day- April 21, 2010

Agenda

The IFAS Citrus Mechanical Harvesting & Abscission Team will be holding their Spring Citrus Mechanical Harvesting Field Day on April 21st at the Southwest Florida Research and Education Center (SWFREC) in Immokalee. This year’s theme is titled “Overcoming Obstacles and Making the Transition.” There will be presentations addressing several challenges with using citrus mechanical harvesters and how they are being addressed. There will also be two guest speakers from other agricultural commodities who faced the transition of going from hand harvesting to mechanical harvesting. They will discuss how their industry worked through the challenges and adapted. An optional field trip will provide an opportunity to observe the OXBO canopy shaker and additional harvesting equipment. Please call to reserve your seat on the bus by April 14th. Seats are limited. The field trip will start at 8:00 am and return to SWFREC by 10:30 am when the formal presentations will begin. The lunch and refreshments are being sponsored by AgroSource, Inc. and Oxbo International, Corp. Please RSVP by calling Barbara Hyman at (239) 658-3400 or email at hymanb@ufl.edu.


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