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V-Wing creates shallow ditches that farmers can farm right through, with a minimum of ditching passes It bothers Swan River, Man., farmer Jeff Penner to see big water volumes churning and charging down a deep drainage ditch.…
Let’s take a look at steam peeling of fruits and vegetables with TOMRA Food, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of solutions for sorting and peeling. Vacuum-sealed peeled vegetables have long ceased to be an unusual sight in…
The company BBLeap has developed a sprayer that steers and sprays at plant level. The first machine was tested on potatoes last summer. The experiences are good. The two faces behind BBLeap are Peter Millenaar and Martijn van Alphen. They…
It is the dawn of a new era in the sustainable packaging sector: Sorma Group is introducing fruit and vegetable packaging that is 100% paper-based and therefore completely recyclable. The designed models, which are suitable for packaging…
Sure, robots are a hot topic, but what could all this autonomous tech really mean for farming? I’m not sure agriculture has seen a more amazing time, at least perhaps since iron replaced horses. Today’s miracle marriage…
Hoarding is unacceptable behavior in most shops. If every mechanic saves leftover parts and salvaged treasures, before long the shop and grounds look like a salvage yard. The general rule is, if you won’t use it in…
TOMRA Food has introduced the TOMRA 3A sensor-based sorting machine for freshly harvested root crops, offering potato growers unrivalled sorting capabilities, dependability, and affordability. Developed in response to specific customer challenges, the TOMRA 3A delivers a new…
Presorting collected products is not yet popular with Russian farmers and food manufacturing plants. And yet the situation is changing quickly with more and more market players introducing presorting into their production processes and starting to show…
Quality and traceability, two important requirements of potato fresh packing, are threatened by market disruptions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdowns have increased home-cooking and the popularity of fresh potatoes, packers may have been tempted to keep…
Leuven, Belgium, 20 November 2019 – By using the TOMRA 3A high-performance sorting machine Duchemin (Caen) are able to ensure their potatoes are a premium product. Created in 1984 in Tourville-sur-Odon in the Calvados region (14) by…
With fresh vegetable sales boosted by people cooking more at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, many potato fresh packers are stretched to capacity. Some are even turning away work because they are too busy to handle it.…
Variable legs of consumer potatoes work, according to experience of growers participating in the National Experimental Garden Precision Agriculture (NPPL). It does take time in an often busy period. In the case of variable legs of consumer…
