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 Potato harvesting and storing

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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Document created : june 2002 - updated : mars 27, 2008

Publication director : Jean-François MARTIN - ICS - 61 rue de la Coppinerie - 17220 Bourgneuf - France

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