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Mobile Mechanized Hops Harvester

Side view showing a bine being stripped (harvested).
Feeding a bine into the machine.
Stripped and sorted hops coming off the machine.

This mobile hops harvester was developed to bridge a gap for nascent Northeast US hops growers between hand picking and larger investment in a stationary harvester. It was developed by a team of farmers and brewers along with an agronomist and an engineer. Support for the project came from the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources, the USDA Specialty Crops Program and UVM Extension.