Grapevines can be modified by various trellising and pruning methods so they may be successfully mechanized. There are six conditions that must be optimized to successfully mechanize a vineyard. A properly trained vine allows efficient operations with out excessive damage to the vines or reduction of fruit yield and/ or quality. Shoot positioning can be accomplished efficiently with machines wh...

Animal traction has supported humans in most field operations since the origin of agriculture. With the introduction of mechanization, humans gained access to much more work power at similar management costs and were able to significantly increase the productivity and time efficiency of field operations. This achievement completely changed food production systems for all populations able to acc...

In the field of biomass and bio-energy production, an analysis was performed of the whole production process from biomass supply to bio-energy production. The available biomass, harvesting and transportation costs and the distribution of supply area were quantified. The assessment of volumes was based on forest type and its relative increment. The transportation costs, influenced by different s...

The digging depth is an important factor affecting the mechanized garlic harvesting quality. At present, of combine harvester (GCH) adjusted manually, which leads to disadvantages such as slow response, poor accuracy, and being very dependent on operator’s experience. To solve this problem, paper proposes a machine vision-based automatic control system for original device. uses improved YOLOv5 ...

We show empirically using panel data at the plot and farm level and based on a model incorporating supervision costs, risk, credit-market imperfections and scale-economies associated with mechanization that small-scale farming is inefficient in India. Larger farms are more profitable per acre, more mechanized, less constrained in input use after bad shocks, and employ less per-acre labor than s...

In a state with a very large, highly mechanized timber harvesting industry, animal-powered logging still occupies a niche in Alabama as a small-scale harvesting alternative. This article summarizes the results from a study that examined the extent of animal logging in Alabama. We investigated this topic by asking who is logging with animals, where are they working, what equipment are they using...