Re:More farms are turning to automation amid labor shortages
by bryanlarsen on Monday October 28, 2024 @02:06PM
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You're totally right about the root veg (and I assume peanuts counts as a root veg in this context).
I meant to say cereal instead of wheat which would have caught oats and barley and some specialty cereals. Beans/pulses generally use the same machinery as cereals.
Definitely didn't mean to include tomatoes, lettuce & spinach, though. I know those are partially mechanized, but don't they still include a large unskilled labor component? Or am I out of date?
I’ma say most nutrition is highly-mechanized (even if it may not make up the entire grocery bill if you buy lots of produce).
Highly mechanized would also include carrots, potatoes, onions, beans/pulses, oats, the flavourless tomatoes that make up 98% of the market, peanuts, lettuce & spinach.
Plenty of fruits I’d say are semi-mechanized: apples, pears and most citrus can use a machine that violently shakes the tree onto a net to catch the falling fruit.