. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. REGIONAL NOTES . . (continued from page 13) WOCB W. Yarmouth, 1240 k AM and mg. FM, 2 and 9 WBSM New Bedford, 1420 k AM and mg. FM, 3:30 and 9 * * * * A new member of our Cranberry Station staff, Miss Sherri Roberts, began work on April 11 as our Cranberry IPM Coordinator. Sherri will be visiting selected bogs through- out the season as part of the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program. She comes to us from Wisconsin and Idaho. We are pleased to have her with us. Dr. Robert Devlin attended the annual meeting
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. REGIONAL NOTES . . (continued from page 13) WOCB W. Yarmouth, 1240 k AM and mg. FM, 2 and 9 WBSM New Bedford, 1420 k AM and mg. FM, 3:30 and 9 * * * * A new member of our Cranberry Station staff, Miss Sherri Roberts, began work on April 11 as our Cranberry IPM Coordinator. Sherri will be visiting selected bogs through- out the season as part of the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program. She comes to us from Wisconsin and Idaho. We are pleased to have her with us. Dr. Robert Devlin attended the annual meeting of the Northeast Section of the American Society of Plant Physiologists in Hartford, Conn., on April 29-30. WASHINGTON By AZMI Y. SHAWA During the past several months, a five member team of seniors in the Agricultural Engineering Department at Washington State University has been attempting to solve a problem important to cranberry growers and processors. As a senior design project, the team was asked to design a machine for sorting cranberries without causing additional injury. Through cooperation with this writer and support from Ocean Spray Inc., the team measured cranberry properties and examined numerous methods of sorting. At the termination of the project, the design team had selected a combination of optical (color) and vibratory (firmness) properties of cranberries as sorting criteria. They developed a bench top sorter to test their design and demonstrated that there is good potential for their design. Because cranberries that were available for use in evaluating the sorter in late May were relatively soft, only a general indication of its performance could be obtained. The color sorting worked well but was not tested at high speeds. The vibratory sorting was able to separate relatively soft berries from very soft berries. Plans to evaluate the sorting concepts were to be carried on in the fall of 1982 and major work on sorting will begin in July 1983 on the return of
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