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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
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<div>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.</div>
<div>We always had an old sales adage... "Sell the sizzle, not
the steak". :-)</div>
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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
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<div> 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
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