Hue base image processing? Wow. On Friday, January 13, 2017, Tim Eck <teck11@embarqmail.com> wrote: > Harvesting (and separation of the pistil from the bloom) is the only > work-intensive part and both are very amenable to 'robomation' using > hue-based image processing. > > Tim Eck > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: pbs [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org <javascript:;>] On > Behalf Of Mark Mazer > > Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 1:57 PM > > To: Pacific Bulb Society > > Subject: Re: [pbs] Could Saffron Help Vermont Farmers? > > > > The minimum wage in Iran is one fifth of Vermont's. The minimum wage in > > Spain is half, and in Afghanistan 'tis one sixteenth. How would green > > mountain state growers ever expect to compete since labor is the > significant > > factor in the cost of saffron production? The proposition simply doesn't > make > > much economic sense unless there is sufficiently great value added > > downstream. > > > > No more crocus here. Rodents ate the entire collection within months of > our > > arrival. Then they feasted on the babiana, and then sparaxis. > > > > Mark Mazer > > Hertford, NC > > > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Judy Glattstein <jgglatt@gmail.com > <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > > > Calling saffron "the world's most expensive spice," a BBC article: > > > http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37581228/ looks into what's > > > involved in raising and harvest saffron in New England's ski-centric > > > state of Vermont. > > > > > > So perhaps we'll have our choice of imported-from-Afghanistan or > > > domestically-produced saffron. Paella for all! > > > Fahrenheit > > > Judy in the Garden State, where our weather is gleefully flip-flopping > > > from nighttime lows of 9 degrees Fahrenheit to a daytime high of 59 > > > degrees fahrenheit a week later > > > _______________________________________________ > > > pbs mailing list > > > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org <javascript:;> > > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org <javascript:;> > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org <javascript:;> > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >