machine harvesting of legumes in iran is not being done due to unsuitable variety of the plant, lack of farmers' technical knowledge and farms of small scale sizes.currently the plant is harvested by hand and carried to the thresher: yet application of these threshers is not common; they are few in number, and not very suitable for iran. this presentation shows the design and construction ...

Nacrtak An experiment on the growing and harvesting of willow trees aimed at short rotation forestry was conducted in northern Japan. Willows were harvested using a sugarcane harvester from southern Japan during its agricultural off-season. The growing experiment showed the high potential of willow plantations to produce woody biomass of more than 10 dry-t/ha/y. The harvesting experiment showed...

the objective of this study was to evaluate different pistachio hullers and determine the proper harvest time of pistachio nuts for hulling. three pistachio hulling machines (helical drum, helical- blade drum, rubber drum) at three harvest times and 15 days interval were evaluated. the hulling efficiency, percentage of damaged nuts, faulty hulled nuts and unhulled nuts were measured at each tim...

It is commonly accepted that tree form has an impact on the productivity of single-grip harvesters. However, it remains unclear, which elements of tree form are significant and to what degree they impact harvesting productivity. This is of particular importance in hardwood dominated stands, where hardwood trees often exhibit complex and variable stem and crown architecture that can complicate a...

As precision farming technologies are on the rise and witness a tremendous development, consequently, machine settings and harvesting machines themselves are getting more and more complex. Although the Ag contractor business is growing in whole, the number of fulltime employees is permanently reduced at the same time. As a consequence, farmers depend more and more on seasonal workers who are no...