<div dir="ltr"><div><div>As this becomes more widely known and affordable in US farms, it will be interesting to witness the effect on immigration.<br><br></div>Turning away undocumented cheap labor when it is needed to keep food prices down is one thing.  But once even cheaper robotic labor takes over...<br><br></div>Same thing with other industries that currently employ a large enough number of illegal immigrants to apply political pressure against sealing the borders.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Dan TheBookMan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com" target="_blank">danust2012@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="http://www.popsci.com/farming-is-now-an-app-on-your-iphone" target="_blank">http://www.popsci.com/farming-is-now-an-app-on-your-iphone</a><br clear="all"><br></div>Imagine how this will help with things like using water more efficiently. (Of course, simply allowing water prices for farmers to move -- rather than subsidizing overuse -- would hasten adoption of technology like this.)<br><div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px">Regards,</span></div><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px"><br clear="none"></span></div></div><div><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px">Dan</span></div></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span>  Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Ust/e/B00J6HPX8M/" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Ust/e/B00J6HPX8M/</font></a></div></div></div></div></div>
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