date:Jun 27, 2017
Over the past few years, Californian agriculture has been affected by the lack of labour, so much so that finding new solutions for thinning, weeding, irrigation and harvesting operations became imperative for lettuce producers in the Salinas Valley. Thinning is an especially demanding operation, as it is carried out by hand.
For these reasons, automatic thinners equipped with a computer to process images and a system that sprays herbicide to eliminate undesired plants were introduced 4 years a