Could Saffron Help Vermont Farmers?

From HK hk@icarustrading.com
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
>
>
> > -----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
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