Could Saffron Help Vermont Farmers?

Tim Eck teck11@embarqmail.com
Fri, 13 Jan 2017 12:27:17 PST
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] 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>
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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