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Economics of Mechanical Tree Fruit Harvesters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Darrel Good ,
Eddy LaDue  and
Lance Davey
Darrel Good
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois
Eddy LaDue
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University
Lance Davey
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University
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Mechanical fruit harvesters have been commercially available to New York growers for ten years. However, adoption of mechanical apple harvesters has been relatively slow because of (l) the availability of relatively inexpensive hand labor, (2) the lack of a suitable fresh fruit harvester, and (3) the wide variation in tree size, apple varieties, farm size and production practices which make operation of a mechanical harvester physically and/or economically infeasible.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , April 1977 , pp. 17 - 29
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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