Research Team
- Diane Barrett: Designing consumer trials to evaluate quality of processed fruit
- Jackie Burns: Developing abscission compounds to facilitate mechanical harvesting
- Sergio Castro-Garcia: Development of mechanical harvester
- John Ferguson: Assisting in evaluation of mechanical harvester and pruning systems
- Louise Ferguson: Project Leader; preparing the tree canopy for better fruit removal
- Kitren Glozer: Preventing olive fruit damage with pre- and post-harvest chemical treatments
- Jean-Xavier Guinard: Evaluating quality of processed fruit
- Bill Krueger: Training olive trees for mechanical harvesting
- Neil O'Connell: Assisting with harvester trials in Tulare County
- Uriel Rosa: Improving the picking head of the olive harvester
- Rich Rosecrance: Determining the curve of fruit loosening force in table olives
- Dave Smith: Development and improvement of the mechanical harvester