[AT] OT robot apple pickers

[Kenneth Gene Waugh]

My maternal grandparents had a small orchard in Whitley County, Indiana,
for years and years. Virtually all sales were right at the farm, retail.
Over the years, the farm has left the family, and the orchard is no
longer---torn out.

On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 6:01 PM Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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:
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>> 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
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>> On January 11, 2020 at 4:39 PM James Peck < jamesgpeck at hotmail.com >
>> wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> https://www.agequipmentintelligence.com/articles/3529-kubota-invests-in-us-harvesting-robot-maker
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>> https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6621786893652676608/
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Gene
Kenneth Gene Waugh
Elgin, Illinois
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