Could Saffron Help Vermont Farmers?
From HK (Fri, 13 Jan 2017 13:30:40 PST)
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
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Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 1:57 PM
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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
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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
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