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<blockquote data-quote="cow pollinater" data-source="post: 1586234" data-attributes="member: 14661"><p>In my opinion, no. At least not at this point. That is changing as mechanical harvesting methods improve but it will be decades before we'll see most crops machine harvested. Take olives, for example. We have the technology readily available to machine harvest them. New plantings are mostly tight spaced rows similar to a vinyard and the trees are pruned down to make a hedgerow yet the vast majority of olives are hand picked because there's so many trees already in the ground that will remain productive for decades and they're planted at orchard intervals that are only conducive to hand picking. Citrus is similar. </p><p>As to the water quality, lots of pistachios and other salt tolorent crops have gone in in the last decade on the west side of the valley where the water quality is poor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cow pollinater, post: 1586234, member: 14661"] In my opinion, no. At least not at this point. That is changing as mechanical harvesting methods improve but it will be decades before we'll see most crops machine harvested. Take olives, for example. We have the technology readily available to machine harvest them. New plantings are mostly tight spaced rows similar to a vinyard and the trees are pruned down to make a hedgerow yet the vast majority of olives are hand picked because there's so many trees already in the ground that will remain productive for decades and they're planted at orchard intervals that are only conducive to hand picking. Citrus is similar. As to the water quality, lots of pistachios and other salt tolorent crops have gone in in the last decade on the west side of the valley where the water quality is poor. [/QUOTE]
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