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Cauliflower Lifting and Trimming Using the AXIS-2D™ X-ray Camera Clients: Richard Pearson Ltd and United Vegetables Ltd (LINK funded research project) The Problem Supermarkets require cauliflowers to be clean, well presented and consistent in size. Unfortunately, individual plant growth rates vary significantly and it is virtually impossible to estimate the size and position of the curd (the part of the cauliflower you eat) when they are completely hidden by leaves. Traditional manual harvesting methods rely on a ‘slaughter’ harvest, taking all the plants in one pass and accepting the loss in crop value through some plants being lifted too early or too late. 3DX-Ray Limited worked with two companies, agricultural machine manufacturers Richard Pearson Ltd and growers United Vegetables Ltd, to find a more economical and less wasteful way of lifting and trimming cauliflowers ready for the supermarket shelf. The project, which was funded under a LINK grant research project, asked to 3DX-Ray Limited to investigate methods for automatically identifying which growing cauliflowers where the optimum size and to control the cutting heads to crop and later trim the vegetables. Next>> |
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