International Fruit Tree Association meeting dives into sensor systems making progress on providing accurate, actionable crop load data. March 15, 2024 Good Fruit Grower
The dream of managing crop load with sensors and smart sprayers moves closer to reality with technological innovation every season.
But it’s a complex dream, with evolving vision systems, new spray technologies and a different way to make crop load management decisions.
“This is a really challenging thing,” said Tory Schmidt of the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission. He led a session during the precision orchard technology workshop that preceded the International Fruit Tree Association’s annual conference in Yakima in February to highlight the companies in the “rapidly evolving landscape” of drone, tractor and smartphone imaging sensors that promise to track crop load at varying stages from bud to bin.
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