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Engineer designs innovative technologies to support specialty crop production

Jack Falinski Michigan State University
Dec 28, 2024
Dec 28, 2024

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Yuzhen Lu's team conducting field imaging of asparagus at the Michigan State University West Central Michigan Research and Extension Center in Hart, Michigan.

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Yuzhen Lu's team conducts field imaging of asparagus.

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Yuzhen Lu's team conducts field imaging of blueberries.

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Jack Falinski Michigan State University

Michigan farmers produce about 300 different commodities, cementing Michigan as, “the most diverse agricultural state in the country with a reliable source of water,” an expression attributed to Peter Lemmer, executive vice-president and chief legal counsel for GreenStone Farm Credit Services. Among those commodities are specialty crops, including many fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits and nursery plants.

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