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peer-reviewed research article

Time of machine harvest for harvested broccoli

authors

R. A. Brendler, Ventura County.

publication information

California Agriculture 24(1):6-7. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v024n01p6. January 1970.

author affiliations

R. A. Brendler is Farm Advisor, Ventura County.

abstract

Abstract Not Available – First paragraph follows:

HAND HARVESTING costs run over $85 per acre for a 5,000-lb crop of broccoli for freezing. Mechanical harvesting of this crop, if feasible, could be done at a small fraction of this cost.

author notes

Assistance in this project was given by Gino Lorenzi, Ray Swift, Louis Brucker, Seraphim Silveira, and Kenneth C. Knapp. Statistical consultant was Thomas M. Little, Extension Bio-metrician, University of California, Riverside.