One correspondent to themushroompeople.com website involved in supplying machines to the industry, and specifically picking machines voiced some pertinent questions this month.
With the credit crisis no-one is prepared to order the new picking machines - so they cannot get into production with the machines.
The picking machine works really well - it doesn’t damage the mushrooms at all. But investing the necessary money now, with a return prospect in 2 to 2 ½ years in the future does not seem likely at the moment. Who would care to predict what financial situation might be even a year hence with the way markets and rates are going.
We can expect only the very farsighted to invest now - but there always are people who see the potential for a new order of doing things.
Stalker hopes our engineering friend sticks with the project and gets a chance to put the picking machine properly into production.
