The Age of Robot Farmers

These bar codes link the berries to the picker, the time of day they were picked, and where on the farm they came from. Santiago Velasco, originally from Oaxaca and known as Chago, may be the best berry picker the farm has ever seen; in his prime, he could fill a hundred and twenty flats a day. A few years ago, the Los Angeles Times sent Hector Becerra, a reporter in his early forties, to a berry field in Santa Maria, California, to write about a day in the life of a strawberry picker.

Source: www.newyorker.com