Kurt Scudder, FarmCloud imaging scientist, drives down a row of Fuji apples on an ATV loaded with camera equipment used to measure crop loads in Washington’s Columbia Basin before harvest in September. The equipment, developed by Intelligent Fruit Vision, was being evaluated by FarmCloud, which hopes to provide it as a service to growers in the Pacific Northwest. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower) To the casual observer, the row after row of ripe, red apples on trellises looks so uniform, it’s hard to grasp how widely production can vary from tree to tree. In row crops, tools that enable growers to […]