Posted by Dick2 on January 12, 2013 at 04:58:10 from (174.19.205.113):
I've been telling people that the growers need to invest in research and development to design new machines to harvest crops that tradionally been harvested by hand.
I saw last week on America's Heartland that a lettuce grower in CA has designed a machine that harvests lettuce. It uses high pressure water jets to cut the lettuce, that it then moves to the sorting table on the machine. Instead of a crew of people cutting off the lettuce, there are only a couple of people riding that machine to sort out rejects and foreign material.
The same company also designed their own processing machines to wash and pack the lettuce. They move all of the equipment to Yuma when it it time to harvest the lettuce there. I'm sure they have reduced the need for manual labor substantially.
Wonder what products will be harvested next by a new machine?
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