Citrus Mechanical Harvesting Field Day :: April 18, 2007

Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Southwest Florida Research and Education Center
Immokalee, FL

Brochure (PDF; 54kb)

Agenda

7:30 am
Registration, coffee & wake-up refreshments, and visit poster displays

8:00 am
Welcome & outline of the day’s events- John Dunckelman, UF-SWFREC

8:15 am
Morning presentations (SWFREC auditorium):

• Overview of IFAS Citrus Mechanical Harvesting Program (.ppt; 10mb) - Jackie Burns, UF-CREC
• Economic Benefits of Abscission and Mechanical Harvesting (.ppt; 780kb) - Fritz Roka, UF-SWFREC

9:15 am
Depart for field site #1

9:45 m
Abscission demonstration- Jackie Burns, UF-CREC

10:15 m
Trunk shaker demonstration- Jackie Burns, UF-CREC

10:45 m
Pick up machine- Tylor Cain, OXBO Corp, Intl. and Reza Ehsani, UF-CREC

11:15 m
Canopy shaker demonstration

11:30 m
Board bus to return to SWFREC

12:00 pm
Lunch

1:15 pm
Second field trip: Concept Grove Or Visit poster displays and Q&A with IFAS Mechanical Harvesting Faculty