California Citrus crop

[39mto39g]

The growers are giving interview with the media in cal. saying there crops are ruined and they can't find workers to pick the crop . Some kind of back door BS so when the media wants to say something in favor of Illegal mexicans and jobs they can point to the orange crop and say SEE we couldn't find workers to pick the crop so orange juice cost more.
Most of an orange crop is made into juice anyway and if the growers would pay more than $3.00 hr maybe there would be people other than illegal mexicans working there. And there are machines that pick oranges, there called a Goat.
And in the end, orange juice is nice but not necessary, So Keep your California orange juice and your illegal mexicans. And maybe the rest of the country can figure a way not to send Cal any federal tax money, that will be a good day.
Ron

Goat, grabs the tree and shakes it, oranges fall into a net.

[Seascamp]

Ron, I think pickers are paid by the lug, not by the hour. At $3.00/hour I think that little citrus would be picked and then only the low hanging fruit, maybe.

I saw a very interesting exhibit at an EU trade show a bit ago. Through Siemans Precision, Germany, Vietnam is developing pick and place robotics that can distinguish between shapes, size and colors and has a glove soft touch. This capability isn?t any great shakes theses days except the Vietnam has apparently identified a market nitch for very low cost, lower precision robotics.

Some beefing up of the picking arms, down-sizing of the control package and mounting on a small farm vehicle and kazaaam, a 24/7 citrus picker at the cost of a medium sized farm tractor. I suppose the picture of a citrus grove in the display booth wasn?t a mere coincidence, but who knows.

Then the challenge will be getting a robotic picker past our docks where the Longshoreman CBUs have a defacto import embargo on any and all robotics. The robotic may arrive at the intended destination, but the forklift tong holes n? other damage usually defeats the purpose.

Scamp

[39mto39g]

Ok it takes a hour to pick a LUG and they get paid $4.00 or whatever. If the growers paid a decent wage then the dirty white boys would work there and the CANs would have no job. The growers say they can't find workers, well offer $20.00 an hr, you'll get workers.