Obsolete Strawberry Farm Workers Being Replaced By Robotic Pickers
Technocrat engineers build because farmers say Americans don’t want to pick fruit. Seasonal labor used to come from Mexico, but apparently 20 million illegal aliens in America don’t want to pick the fruit either. ⁃ TN EditorThe problem is so pressing that competitors are banding together to fund Harv, which has raised about $9 million from corporate behemoths like Driscoll’s and Naturipe Farms, as well as from local farmers.
Wishnatzki, who created Harv with former I
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