[ExI] Just some thoughts, nothing new really

[William Flynn Wallace]

We have all the automation necessary to automate most harvesting now,
including that which is currently done by hand picking.  One must wonder
what happens when it becomes economically viable to get harvest bots.

spike


I don't know who or what is harvesting my California strawberries, but they
are doing a poor job.  The ones I get at the store, Walmart, are about half
white on the bottom - picked too soon.  Oddly, the organic ones are picked
much later and are red all the way down and far sweeter.  And so there is
almost no waste and thus they are much cheaper than the cheap ones.

bill w

On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 11:52 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> At least some immigration is good:  farmers need pickers and the
> immigrants do it and no one else wants those back-breaking jobs.
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> We have all the automation necessary to automate most harvesting now,
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