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Dan Seymore puts the finishing touches on the stainless steel fruit take outs he built for the new fruit grading system at Lindcove.  These will allow the researchers to evaluate the fruit by any chosen parameter and then they are returned to a central belt where they can be loaded into bins.

Frost protection kicked in again this week.  Hopefully the rain will arrive soon and give everyone some rest.
 
If you want to study frost protection in detail, I highly recommend reading the Focus on Frost Protection issue of Sep/Oct 2011 Citrograph.
http://www.citrusresearch.org/frost_issue

At Lindcove we had 14 nights of wind machine activity during December to protect the citrus fruit as temperatures hovered around 26 degrees.  The citrus fruit is looking good and we are glad to get a break from frost protection.