Machine-harvestable tomatoes available from UF/IFAS; growers hope cultivars can help lower labor cost
April 25, 2024
Ever since Florida farmers have been growing tomatoes, they’ve picked them by hand or hired laborers. It’s painstaking work that might be made easier soon with machine-harvestable tomatoes developed by University of Florida scientists. Now ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFASTags: Cultivar, Florida, Florida Tomato Committee, Growers, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Horticultural Sciences, Hybrid, Jay Scott, Jessica Chitwood-Brown, Machine Harvesting, Michael Schadler, Plant Breeding, Sam Hutton, Tomatoes