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Re:The rise of the robot farmer by PhasmaFelis on Monday October 22, 2018 @04:13PM (#18278046)
Does that mean they're convinced the results would be unsatisfactory, or just that their rustic image is more valuable than increased efficiency?
Re:The rise of the robot farmer by dbcurtis on Monday October 22, 2018 @09:18PM (#18280045)
Some of both. Machine harvested grapes have a lot of field run, leaves and twigs, etc, and also the grapes are not as gently handled. So you at least have to keep the larger pieces of cruft out of the fermentation vats. But marketing image is also a big part of it, rightly or wrongly, which is all top-line dollars, less cost of harvesting crew, of course, but it pencils out. We are talking premium wines here, not two-buck-Chuck.