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  • January 15th 2010 Issue
  • Story by Geraldine Warner
  • Nursery goes high-tech

    Employees like the machine, and it has doubled worker productivity.

    This machine carries five workers on seats through a block of nursery trees to remove suckers. The machine can be used without seats but with different attachments for spraying and weed control. A nursery in Chile is using the latest equipment to cut the labor involved in growing the branched trees that growers want for good orchard establishment. The Buenos Aires de Angol Nursery in Chile produces more than a million trees, of which more than 90 percent are apple and the rest cherries. Cherries are grown on contract. Both apple and cherry trees are two-year-old knip trees. The trees […]

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