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  • Multiple Trials of New Precision Agriculture Tools for Crop Load Management in NYS

    Elizabeth Higgins, CCE ENYCHP Reprinted with permission from TREE FRUIT NEWS, July 2022, Volume 10, Issue 4. Cornell Cooperative Extension Eastern NY Commercial Horticulture Program Are you concerned about crop load management on your farm?Industry has taken note and you may have more tools for makingmanagement decisions in the future. “One of the challengesexpressed by

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  • Computer vision has its eyes on precision

    University research and R&D from ag tech companies converge on the practice of precision crop load management… Optimized crop load delivers optimum profitability.  Even the researchers and extension specialists who have promoted precision crop load management for the past decade agree that is far easier said than done. “To do that, we’ve developed manual approaches

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  • NNYADP Research: Apple Thinning & Economic Data Results, 3/18 Webinar

    Peru, New York; February 11, 2022  The 2021 results of precision apple orchard management research funded by the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program are now posted under the Research: Horticulture and Local Foods tab at nnyagdev.org (see About Us: NNYADP Projects tab). The research, aimed at fully understanding how to best incorporate the use

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