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The insular nature of Canadian agriculture is one of its biggest innovation challenges, said speakers at a recent agriculture event. Growth will thrive when connections are made, collaborations are struck, and investors are found to put up the dollars needed to take a concept and make it reality, but there’s not enough of any of those things, according to speakers at Bioenterprise’s National Call to Action in Ottawa Nov. 25.
Keeping the fruit and vegetables you harvest in the same condition you found them in the field can be a challenge as there can be a number of points-of-contact in the handling process. One in particular being getting produce from a field bin to larger containers during processing. With this in mind, Tecnoagri has introduced a new side-tipper design that locks the bin in place as it turns on its side, eliminating the overhead arm that holds it in place that could result in contamination from hydraulic components. At the EIMA agricultural machinery show in Italy last month, Federico Mingazzi with Tecnoagri showed how the system works.