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Too Many Apples, Too Few Hands In Washington

Flickr Photo/Andrea Parrish-Geyer (CC-BY-NC-ND)
U-pick isn't a very practical solution to the problem of harvesting labor shortage.

 
Ross Reynolds talks with Karen Lewis, who is trying to come up with a better way to harvest apples when there's not enough people to pick them. Lewis is a tree fruit specialist at the Washington State University.