Innovation is extremely important in driving the labour discussion. Three weeks ago I was in Hong Kong presenting a document on disruptive technology and how it can help drive our entire sector. There is a range of new tools that can support harvesting and picking.
I had an opportunity two weeks ago to visit a new innovation centre in Salinas, California, where they've created an innovation hub—a brand new, amazing facility—that has supported the development of new tools and new products that farmers can develop, and not only farmers but full supply chains.
When you look at innovation, then, it could be tools within a repack shed, it could be tools within the retail outlet, or it could be tools within a wholesale outlet. Looking at labour in the field, it could be something as simple as weeding.
There is an organization, which we had a chance to see, in California that is testing an electronic weeder. For what would normally take a crew of 30, they have two people operating a machine that takes real-time photos of the plant, identifies whether it's a weed or not, and can weed the area in less time than a human workforce can move through.
Those types of technologies exist. Not everything can at this point be harvested mechanically. There are new technologies for apple picking, berries, and so on. They need further development. That's where the opportunity rests: in taking disruptive technologies that are in initial stages and—going back to the comments earlier around commercialization—taking them to the next step. How do we actually implement and deliver and commercialize them across the sector? Labour is one component.