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Farm Robot Picks Peppers

Is it really true that farmworkers are in short supply? America’s southern border has been wide open for decades, but we are still told that there aren’t enough pickers — perhaps at the wage that farmers want to pay.

Automation can solve the problem here, if one exists. Machines are coming into the marketplace that can […]

December 21st, 2018 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: , , , , , | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post

Canadian Weed-Picker Robot Wins AgBOT Challenge

Automation on the farm is advancing briskly. From cow-milking robots to mechanical strawberry pickers, smart machines are doing the jobs that many once thought required inexpensive Third-Worlders. Not so much any more.

A Canadian company recently won a competition in the weeding category with its machine.

Below, the weed picker from Nexus Robotics is a champ in […]

May 28th, 2018 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: , , , , , , , | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post

The Future of Farming Is Automated

Is it too early to suggest ending the H-2a agricultural visa? The increasingly affordable cost of agricultural robots is making them an attractive choice for farmers rather than hiring foreign workers who are now often more expensive than the machines. Some of the new farmbots are compact, rentable and therefore suitable for small-scale farmers.

Earlier this […]

September 20th, 2016 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post

Robot Farm Machines Advance in Skills

The image of illegal aliens in agriculture persists, since they occupy 53 percent of farm labor, but in the near future we may be seeing fewer of them.

The reason: robots and automation are replacing human workers on the farm just as surely as on the factory floor. A few years back, simple automatic harvesters and […]

July 16th, 2014 | Category: job displacement | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
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