IFTA’s summer field tour in New York last year focused on automation technologies and growers who are utilizing new equipment to save on labor. And automation is still on everyone’s minds. At the IFTA conference in Washington in February, two speakers shared updates on apple harvesters currently under development. Abundant Robotics aims to have an automated apple harvester available for commercial use in the U.S. by the 2018 harvest. Read and watch more about the company’s efforts in the November 2016 issue of Good Fruit Grower. Growers at IFTA also got a first look at another automatic harvester in […]