Harvesting Salad Greens – Mechanized Harvest for Small Farms

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Harvesting salad greens can be a slow and labor-intensive process. With recent innovations that include the Quick-Cut Greens Harvester and the Baby Greens Harvester (a scaled up option not shown in this video) by Terrateck, small farms can greatly increase the speed and efficiency of their harvest.

 

This material is based upon work that is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under award number G182-21-W7903 through the Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program under project number PDP20-009.
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This video is produced by the National Center for Appropriate Technology through the ATTRA Sustainable Agriculture program, under a cooperative agreement with USDA Rural Development.

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