{"id":608,"date":"2014-12-07T06:47:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T10:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/?p=608"},"modified":"2014-12-07T06:49:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T10:49:24","slug":"hops-harvesting-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/2014\/12\/07\/hops-harvesting-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Hops Harvesting and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I presented an update on small-scale hops harvesters at the 2014 Northeast Hops Alliance (NEHA) Winter Meeting yesterday.\u00a0 We also talked a bit about drying and pelletizing at small scale.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/files\/2014\/12\/Harvest-and-Beyond-2014-12-06-Morrisville-NY-CALLAHAN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">presentation is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A summary of harvesters is provided in the table below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/files\/2014\/12\/Hops-Harvester-Table.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-609\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/files\/2014\/12\/Hops-Harvester-Table.jpg\" alt=\"Hops Harvester Table\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/files\/2014\/12\/Hops-Harvester-Table.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/files\/2014\/12\/Hops-Harvester-Table-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the really exciting things for me to see is the number of small-scale, mobile harvesters available to people is increasing.\u00a0 Mendon Precision, LLC (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopsharvester.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HopsHarvester.com<\/a>), Wolverine, and <a href=\"http:\/\/lagasseworks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">LaGasse Works<\/a> all have produced harvesters that they intend to have available in serial production.These are in addition to the <a href=\"http:\/\/bineimplement.com\/3060-harvester.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bine Implement<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/steenlandmanufacturing.com\/hh1000\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steenland<\/a> harvesters noted previously<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-606\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/files\/2014\/12\/Mendon-Hops-Harvester1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-606\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/files\/2014\/12\/Mendon-Hops-Harvester1-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"Mendon Precision, LLC - HopsHarvester.com harvester.\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/files\/2014\/12\/Mendon-Hops-Harvester1-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/files\/2014\/12\/Mendon-Hops-Harvester1-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/files\/2014\/12\/Mendon-Hops-Harvester1.jpg 1631w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mendon Precision, LLC &#8211; HopsHarvester.com harvester.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_607\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-607\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/files\/2014\/12\/DSCF2005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-607\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/files\/2014\/12\/DSCF2005-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Wolverine Harvester\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/files\/2014\/12\/DSCF2005-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/files\/2014\/12\/DSCF2005-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wolverine Harvester<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This past year also saw more grower builds using the UVM mobile platform design including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aroostookhops.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aroostook Hops<\/a> in Westfield, ME.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_605\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-605\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/files\/2014\/12\/14hopsfam-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-605 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/files\/2014\/12\/14hopsfam-14-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A harvester based on the UVM Mobile design by Aroostook Hops.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/files\/2014\/12\/14hopsfam-14-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/files\/2014\/12\/14hopsfam-14-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A harvester based on the UVM Mobile design by Aroostook Hops.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I presented an update on small-scale hops harvesters at the 2014 Northeast Hops Alliance (NEHA) Winter Meeting yesterday.\u00a0 We also talked a bit about drying and pelletizing at small scale.\u00a0 The presentation is available here. A summary of harvesters is provided in the table below. One of the really exciting things for me to see &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/2014\/12\/07\/hops-harvesting-and-beyond\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hops Harvesting and Beyond&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hops-2","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Chris Callahan","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/author\/cwcallah\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}