Produce machines needed

Luis of our Fresh Produce Industry Discussion group started this interesting thread about produce machines. This is a great example of why the blog readers should also be members of the discussion group. Lots of news and links provided to the group apart from Fresh Talk.

Luis provides links to several "bots" under development for anything from weeding to harvesting and writes:

New harvesting technology may call for yet newer growing practices (i.e. the whole package) and thus, the continuing R&D support the industry knows full well is the basis of its competitiveness.

TK: The apple industry and tree fruit interests in general have been active in this area, lobbying for more research focus on labor saving technology.