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  • September 2016 Issue
  • Story by TJ Mullinax, Dave Weinstock
  • The tech advantage of digital oversight – Video

    Digital add-on uses a combination of GPS and video data to track performance of man and machine.

    Rick Howitt, right, monitors a small computer that records data collected from a Huron Fruit Systems platform during apple thinning on July 1, 2016 at Wafler Farms in Wayne County, New York. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower) Wafler Farms wanted to do more than just mechanize tasks on the farm. Paul Wafler also wanted to be able to monitor the progress and location of the farm’s own Huron Fruit Systems platform in the orchard, as well as track yields and worker performance. He wants the orchards running like a production line; wherever there is a problem, he wants to be able […]

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