A Central Packing-Precooling System for Celery

William G. Grizzell and Frederick E. Henry

No 313253, Marketing Research Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation and Marketing Program

Abstract: Excerpts from the report: Most growers in Florida use "mule trains" to harvest and pack celery in the field. This harvesting and packing system requires many workers. A prototype handling system based on a central packing and precooling plant was designed and evaluated. A system engineering study was made of the central packing and precooling plant, and tests of system components were completed. Components of the study included: (1) Mechanical cutting and harvesting in the field; (2) hauling celery in bulk from the field to the packinghouse and dumping into a large water tank at the packinghouse; (3) mechanical weigh-sizing celery stalks; (4) manual place-packing celery stalks into crates; (5) mechanical inplant handling with fork trucks; and (6) unit-load precooling.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Labor and Human Capital; Production Economics; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42
Date: 1971-03
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.313253

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