[AT] OT robot apple pickers

Mon Jan 13 19:00:18 PST 2020

Oklahoma had a lot of Orchards on the Eastern border with Arkansas. 
Stillwell foods was a major frozen food manufacturer with Apple, Peach, 
and Strawberry cobbler and Frozen Apples Peaches and strawberries and 
Okra.  When the fruit trees were not bearing, they grew Okra, 
strawberries, and some beans that could be frozen.   They used Indian 
labor and the Indians had a part ownership in the factory.  Then came 
the Bingo Halls and later the Casinos.  It was too easy for them to make 
money serving the gambling industry, so the orchards and  plowed fields 
were later put into grass and the factory was closed.  I heard that a 
tribe had bouht the old factory and was going to turn it into a Casino. 
The old row crop tractors they used went to a salvage dealer in Arkansas.
Cecil

On 1/13/2020 6:56 PM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> I have two apple trees in my back yard. Maybe I can call them an 
> orchard.  :-)
> I do want to plant about 4 more at other locations around the farm 
> this spring. I may never eat an apple off of any of those but son 
> Scott should and hopefully a few other descendants might.
> I'm going to take out 2 bearing persimmon trees that are in the wrong 
> place and I want to plant about 4 persimmon trees in other locations 
> to replace them. The two I am removing are too messy where they are in 
> the yard and they are competing badly with a young Beech tree and I 
> would rather save the Beech in the yard. As long as I am able I'll 
> keep planting trees, especially fruit and nut trees. I also have a lot 
> of mature Tulip Poplar trees dying and so I am saving every new sprout 
> and moving them to certain locations when they are about 18" tall. 
> It's just kind of my thing...  :-)
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> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 7:10 PM Mike M <meulenms at gmx.com 
> <mailto:meulenms at gmx.com>> wrote:
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>     What makes me sad are the orchards disappearing. My first job as a
>     14 year old boy was to pull suckers and run irrigation drippers
>     through an apple orchard, in Grand Rapids, MI. Now the whole area
>     is littered with strip malls and restaurants. Not a fruit tree to
>     be seen.
>
>     Mike M
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>     On 1/13/2020 7:00 PM, Indiana Robinson 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 <mailto: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.
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>>         Brian
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>>         On January 11, 2020 at 4:39 PM James Peck <
>>         jamesgpeck at hotmail.com <mailto: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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