ROCK ISLAND, Wash. — As growers plant the new Cosmic Crisp apple variety for the first time next spring, they need to think about what type of tree structure will be best-suited for robotic apple picking, a research scientist says.
“Cosmic Crisp should work great for robotic picking so which structure do they think is best for that?” asked Tom Auvil, research horticulturalist at the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission in Wenatchee.
Article by Dan Wheat, Capital Press
