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How to choose the appropriate harvest
type : manual, semi-manual or mechanical treatment ?
There are two major factors that will help you determine the most appropriate solution: the
level of investment you can afford and the mechanical harvest tolerance of the varieties composing your crops.
In any case, it is essential to wait about 3 weeks after turning to harvest the crop. This
will leave enough time for the tubers' skin to thicken. Some varieties are well adapted to mechanical harvest. Other (Spunta for example) are not
and can badly suffer from such treatment.
Therefore, harvesting sometimes simply consists of lifting the soil, loading in trailers when
necessary, and cleaning the harvest in the field or in the storage facility. The potatoes will then be graded
(manually and mechanically) and stored. The storage period varies greatly, depending on variety, health and
temperature conditions.
Taking all these parameters into account, ICS offers a wide range of equipment selected from
different lines such as Agronomic' or Grimme'.
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