Bulk-handling compared with the use of field boxes with reference to the post-harvest physiology of apples
Yellow Newtown apples handled in bulk in large twenty-five bushel bins showed less bruising than those handled in standard one-bushel field boxes. Most of the bruising took place during the dumping on to the grader operation rather than at picking time. The mechanical dumping of the large bins did n...
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University of British Columbia
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/39985 |