What this apple-picking robot means for the future of farm workers
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For example, modern olive culture. Regular olives come from a full size tree, people used to (and maybe still do) beat the trees with sticks to get the olives off. But now many olives are grown in low rows that a machine can straddle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0glTpuK8SY
Guessing similar or else some type of espalier is the future of stone fruit culture.
[1] http://www.goodfruit.com/growers-get-peek-at-automatic-picki...
I didn't realize there was a labor shortage. The way people talk (at least in the northwestern United States)—and our current president—it sounded like there were plenty of people doing this kind of work, many of which from Mexico.
Hell trumps own hotels are still applying for immigrant visas to staff them.
Is there a labor shortage that can be filled by bringing in immigrant workers? Then push for new laws that makes bringing in foreign workers easy like many rich middle eastern countries and many European countries have done.
Why do you want people to break the laws instead? How is it better in any way?
Hopefully lower prices for consumers, but man will this put alot of immigrants out of jobs.
Automation is never a bad thing from a macroeconomic standpoint.
As the population ages and farmers' children seek out other non farm industries (US, Japan, Korea, Europe, Australia, etc. for example) this becomes a necessity.