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Nominees announced for 2023 TESA awards

The Canadian Cattlemens Association announced their nominees for the TESA awards, looking to give recognition to those producers who help with the local environment.

The Environmental Stewardship Award has been given out for 26 years, with the CCA "recognizing beef producers who explore innovative ways to protect, preserve, and enhance their operations and the environment simultaneously".

The nominees hail from seven different provinces and include:

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Designing a Robotic Berry Picker

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Since blackberries must be harvested by hand, the process is time-consuming and labor-intensive. To support a growing blackberry industry in Arkansas, food science associate professor Renee Threlfall is collaborating with mechanical engineering assistant professor Anthony Gunderman to develop a mechanical harvesting system. Most recently, the team designed a device to measure the force needed to pick a blackberry without damaging it. The data from this device will help inform the next stage of development and move the team closer to the goal of a fully autonomous robotic berry picker. The device was developed by Gunderman, with Yue Chen, a former U of A professor now at Georgia Tech, and Jeremy Collins, then a U of A undergraduate engineering student. To determine the force needed to pick blackberries without damage, the engineers worked with Threlfall and Andrea Myers, then a graduate student.