Posted on 07/21/2017 5:06:41 AM PDT by Trumpnation
Not quite sure how I feel about these hydraulic tree shakers...
Later
How do you feel about not knowing how you feel about fruit harvesting machinery?
Shakers have been around for years. There is newer vacuum equipment now.
I’m with you.....
Don’t like any machine that would violently shake my nuts.....
or peaches....
The trees like being shaken. They say it tickles.
They’ve been around for years, and are only getting more prevalent.
People want cheap food in a wide variety, but how many kids do you know who want to go into agriculture or work on a farm?
Our government and society actually push them in other directions.
To use shakers you need tough fruit that can stand being roughly handled. Hence the engineered rock hard fruit.
Explain why agriculture is so important yet manufacturing, which creates much more wealth, seems to unimportant? Why is the fact that family farming is dying a national tragedy but an entire factory closing and being shipped to China is not?
I'm not sure anyone holds this view. Both are equal problems
Oh God, you must come here very often. There is an army of neo-con globalist Free Traitors™ that post here regularly. They rejoiced when Ford announced that all Ford Focus cars will be made in China and imported to the USA duty free. They celebrated.
The trees like being shaken. They say it tickles.
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Supposedly, hitting the trunk of a tree with a bat will make it fruit better.
Tree shakers are better for the country than Hispanic slave labor.
Have you never seen a tree shaker run across the border towards freedom?!
Rock hard tomatoes, peaches and strawberries engineered for robotic picking suck. They are as tasteless as they are tough.
The hardness is also for the packing and shipping process. Unless you’re buying fruit that’s babied all the way there is going to be that problem.
I think shakers work best for citrus.
Everyone around here uses them for their pecan orchards.
I consider myself a “free trader” - in that I don’t trust government to manage trade, or anything else that’s very complex.
IMHO - government policy is actually driving US jobs and factories away. We presently have the largest portion of the labor-force not working in 50 years, but as you point out, farms would rather buy picking machines, McDonalds is setting up automated kiosks, and many good companies I know are claiming they can’t find skilled workers. That’s a huge disconnect.
Furthermore, have you looked at the out-of-shape people paying for their food with their EBT card and WIC checks? Have you noticed fat girls with a baby or babies paying with multiple WIC checks? And, it goes on and on.
That’s how it was, at least with strawberries. For years they were controversial, because farm workers had to maintain them with short rakes, guaranteed to damage your back. Finally short rakes were outlawed.
Finally, somebody came up with the brilliant idea to put strawberries in elevated troughs, perhaps four feet high, covered with caterpillar tents. It saves water, fertilizer and pesticide, it makes picking ripe berries much easier, it significantly reduces losses to insects and birds, and the tents normalize and raise temperatures, so that there are three or four harvests a year.
This has radically driven down the price of retail strawberries.
Do you know what was the first US Federal law ever passed?
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