With labor getting scarce and minimum wages on the rise, Cole Mangum of Bell Nursery says it’s time to take a closer look at automating your operation.
Despite the frustrating nature of our current political climate, now may be the best time for you to address your long-term labor and automation needs.
Harvest Automation’s HV-100 robots automate one of the hardest, most labor-intensive jobs at growing operations – plant spacing. With more technology coming, investing in robots could become even more realistic for growers of all sizes.
Harvest Automation’s HV-100 robots automate one of the hardest, most labor-intensive jobs at growing operations – plant spacing. With more technology coming, investing in robots could become even more realistic for growers of all sizes.
Harvest Automation’s free robot work offer allows growers to use plant moving robots to alleviate one of the most demanding and repetitive tasks. For Flowerwood Nursery, this has led to higher profit margins with fewer workforce headaches.
The partnership between Harvest Automation and SBI Software will integrate Harvest Automation’s HV-100 plant-moving robots with Harvest Knowledge, a new cloud-based data collection system, and SBI Software’s inventory and production systems.
For Greenhouse Grower’s 30th anniversary look at the future, we spoke to experts in robotics, web technology and production technology to get their opinions on what new opportunities may be in the pipeline for greenhouse growers.
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs at the grade-school level are turning out more students familiar with engineering and computer technologies.
