[AT] OT robot apple pickers

[Indiana Robinson]

There are a few old orchards in this area and quite a few newer ones. One
of the newer ones has more recently added hundreds of peach trees. The
orchards in that case along with a large sweet corn operation is a
replacement for that families confinement hog operation. It all comes about
during a generation change. All of the orchards around here are not really
mega volume many semi loads heading to some factory type of things. They
make their main income as "destinations" with steady sales along and a lot
of weekend events in the fall that also usually involve a lot of pumpkins
as well. Some even involve a few old tractors.
We always had an old sales adage... "Sell the sizzle, not the steak".  :-)


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On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 3:48 PM Brian VanDragt <bvandragt at comcast.net>
wrote:

> My Grandpa was a fruit farmer here in southwest Michigan until the mid
> 70's.  He had migrant workers from Arkansas, and during WWII, German POW's
> picking fruit.  What killed the apple industry here was that cheaper
> transportation brought Washington apples to our markets (Chicago). The WA
> apples look nicer, but don't taste as good, but people buy them based on
> looks.  I still have the John Deere AO that he bought new in 1952.
>
> Brian
>
> On January 11, 2020 at 4:39 PM James Peck < jamesgpeck at hotmail.com >
> wrote:
>
>
>
> The area I grew up in lost many of its apple orchards due to Washington
> state which harvests apples with immigrant labor. Will robot apple
> harvesters bring back apple growing nationwide?
>
>
> https://www.agequipmentintelligence.com/articles/3529-kubota-invests-in-us-harvesting-robot-maker
>
> https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6621786893652676608/
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Francis Robinson
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Central Indiana USA
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