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Automatic Mushroom Harvester Developed
Devices for automatic cutting
and gathering of commercially
grown mushrooms have been
developed by agricultural
engineers at Pennsylvania State
University. The equipment in
cludes an oscillating saw or
cutterhead and airstreams and
an air suction chamber to pick up
the cut mushrooms and move
them to a storage bin.
Using the innovations, a har
vester—the first of its type—has
been built and tested by Dr.
Sverker Persson and associates
at Penn State. Engineer in
charge of the project, Dr. Per
sson says the equipment can be a
vital step toward complete
mechanization of mushroom
production. Harvesting, he
claims, is the only major phase of
mushroom production still
lacking suitable mechanized
equipment.
These developments at Penn
State’s Agricultural Experiment
Station are the latest phases of a
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long-time program to improve
mushroom production. Research
to date has helped Pennsylvania
mushroom growers produce a
crop valued at over 55 million
dollars annually—the largest
source of cash income from crop
production in the Com
monwealth This amounts to
about two-thirds of the nation’s
supply of mushrooms and one
third of total world production
each year.
The harvesting machine,
patented recently, can be used
where mushroom trays are
brought by fork lift truck to a
harvesting center in the
mushroom plant The oscillating
saw or cutterhead works through
a one-foot wide row of
mushrooms in the four-foot long
tray in about 20 seconds, Dr
Persson says. The present cut
terhead must pass back and forth
over the beds four times to
harvest a tray. When fully
developed, the machine will
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feature four cutterheads har
vesting the full tray in one pass
Most machme-havested
mushrooms have the same
quality as hand-picked
mushrooms, Dr Persson af
firms. The ideal mushroom
strains for mechmcal harveting
should have fairly long stems and
should not form clusters.
Practically all mushrooms from
one sprouting or “flush” should
reach suitable size for harvesting
in one or two days
The machine will .harvest less
than ideal mushrooms but with
reduced capacity and increased
losses. Additional research is
needed, Dr Persson points out,
before the harvesting techniques
are perfected Above all, studies
are needed of the economic
consequences of a wide variation
in mushroom size Further
analysis must be made of the
possibility of using mushrooms
with slight damage
Young people who haven’t
decided on a career may want to
consider the rapidly developing
leisure industry People are
needed to work in our parks,
playgrounds, recreation centers,
camps, ski areas and other
recreational facilities, reports
Joe Cardenuto, Extension
recreation specialist at Penn
sylvania State University Those
interested in serving others or
interested in our environment
and natural resources might do
well to examine the parks and
recreation field as a career Job
opportunities range from plan
ning and management to
teaching and leading activities,
says Cardenuto
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