YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - In today's Home Grown, we look at a way that man and machine can co-exist side by side in the field.<\/p>\n
There are millions of dollars invested in harvesting each year, but with a continuous labor shortage, it makes it difficult to get crops out of the dirt.<\/p>\n
Thinning, weeding and spraying have already shifted to machine labor in our area.<\/p>\n
Harvesting, on the other hand, is much more difficult because a robot would have to replicate a human being.<\/p>\n
\"You're looking at something. You're evaluating it. You're making a decision,\" said Dennis Donohue, executive director of the Western Growers Association. \"You know, if you're looking at a strawberry, is it red, does it have white shoulder, is it no good.\"<\/p>\n
Harvesting is a difficult process because a machine would have to have the same evaluation capabilities as a farmer.<\/p>\n
Even though nothing can compare to the human eye, farmers feel switching to harvest automation is a necessary step in feeding America.<\/p>\n
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