Citrus Mechanical Harvesting Field Day :: April 22, 2008

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Southwest Florida Research and Education Center
Immokalee, FL

Brochure (PDF; 153kb)

Agenda

7:30 am
Registration, coffee & wake-up refreshments

8:15 am
Travel to SWFREC field sites:

• Concept Grove and New Ideas for Grove Design -Dr. Bob Rouse, UF-SWFREC, Dr. Kelly Morgan, UF-SWFREC and Dr. Bill Castle, UF-CREC
• Autonomous Guidance for Robotic Harvesting and Disease Detection - Dr. Tom Burks, UF-Ag. Eng.
• Abscission Trials, 2007-08 - Dr. Bob Ebel, UF-SWFREC

10:30 am
Presentations in SWFREC main building:

• Yield Estimation with Digital Photography (Abstract) - Dr. Arnold Schumann, UF-CREC
• Machine Enhancements for Mechanical Harvesting - Dr. Reza Ehsani, UF-CREC

12:00 pm

• Lunch
• Update on Abscission Research and CMNP Registration - Dr. Jackie Burns, UF-CREC
• Field Day Evaluation

1:15 pm
Adjourn