AIM GOLDEN RETRIEVER STREAMLINES POST-HARVEST IRRIGATION PIPE RETRIEVAL FOR DRISCOLL STRAWBERRIES At the Driscoll Strawberries nursery in McArthur, California, workers spend a week or more every year completing the time-consuming, post-harvest process of manually breaking up irrigation pipe and loading it onto trucks. Pipe typically is laid out in quarter-mile stretches and at times can be seen scattered over 50 acres of fields. CASE STUDY AGRICULTURAL IRRIATION Application: Agricultural Irrigation Project Type: Irrigation System Crop: Strawberries Owner: Driscoll Strawberries Associates Product Used: Certa-Set ® and Certa-Lok ® PVC Irrigation Pipe Grower: Driscoll Strawberries CHALLENGE Retrieving pipe by hand is a time- intensive, costly process for a farming operation. P

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