Blueberries MEGA FACTORY: Processing Thousands of Blueberries with AI
Have you ever wondered how blueberries are grown and processed on a large scale? More than 200 million pounds of blueberries are produced each year in North America. In this episode, we will explore how the blueberries are harvested with huge machines, and how they are sorted, washed, and packed. Advanced AI sorting scanners play a crucial role in separating ripe berries from unripe ones during harvesting. These scanners use computer vision to analyze the color, size, and firmness of each berry in real-time, ensuring only the highest-quality fruit is collected.
On large-scale blueberry farms, mechanical harvesters are often used to efficiently pick ripe berries. These machines use vibrating rods or combs to gently shake the berries off the bushes, and the fruit falls onto conveyors or catchment systems.
At the processing plant, the berries go through a sorting process to remove any remaining leaves, stems, or unripe berries. The berries then undergo a thorough washing process to remove any dirt or debris.
Packaging is also a crucial step: cleaned and sorted blueberries are then packed into various packaging formats, such as clamshells, punnets, or bulk containers. The packaging is designed to protect the berries during transportation and maintain their freshness.
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Apparently all basic computer algorithms are now "AI"...
@SilentStudioExplores
4 ай бұрын
i keep saying "automation" and like you said computer algorithms. programs designed to make something that was once complicated, simplified so a dummy can operate it.
@vincecas3557
4 ай бұрын
8 years ago it would have been 'using cutting edge block chain technology..."
@COCOLEAF1169
2 ай бұрын
Yes any computer program is AI
@MircoMarossi
Ай бұрын
And the most funny thing is that even ChatGPT isn’t an AI… but just a fucking LLM 😂 but AI make it sell better 😂
@SilentStudioExplores
Ай бұрын
@@MircoMarossi ChatGPT is powered by the GPT backend provided by OpenAI. The Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) relies on a Large Language Model (LLM) so technically its a GPT that relies on an LLM to operate.
Very good video and lots of useful information
Blueberries have always been my favorite fruit. Thanks for sharing.
My jaw is in my lap at all of the technology to process blueberry's, and people have to wait six months for an operation. Also you work at sorting blueberries all day long and are driving home on the freeway. And all you see is a steady stream of blueberries coming at your windshield!! 🤪
The AI blueberry processing factory is really interesting, it's also the first time I've seen it
@vvdd903
2 ай бұрын
big buzz word now
My friend is addicted to blueberries. He is like a Hoover. He's going to Love this little video. I'll send it him. ❤
While people in some corporations are reluctant to work with AI, it is already happening in the agricultural business! Amazing! It’s also good to know that blueberries go through multiple washings before they are packed.
OMG, first time seeing this technology, very interesting
After watching this, I may have to rethink getting into the blueberry growing business.
These baskets are strategically placed onto the conveyors. That machine is slapping those baskets
I loved the process! However the only flaw I saw was the employees handling the open containers with ungloved hands, thus introducing bacteria to the blueberries.
@ultimatepepsi
2 ай бұрын
it's normal in the food industry, not to use gloves because it gets dirty faster and need to change every hour, so....washing your hands is better
@jaguatiricaimediata5305
18 күн бұрын
That is a misconception. Good hygiene is better and safer than wearing gloves. Gloves are used to protect the worker, not the food.
The company has photo and documentation of every berry which passed its conveyor belt.
I like how commercialy grown blueberries are sold at farmers markets. Usually by crooks claiming they are sourced locally
@christophehorguelin7044
4 ай бұрын
How can you tell?
@Positivevibe123
4 ай бұрын
It was proven by other buyer who saw the same identical fruit cases at the farmer market like the ones at grocery stores - brand names ! I’m the other person who saw it plus employees who told me used to work at California farms and know the business. Want to buy local farmer produces - get to know the farmer original owners who are easily accessible in person ! If not, then it’s commercial business - possibly not free gmo pesticide etc. Best is go and buy it at the farm lands not at farmer market or groceries!
@Adrian-cw8yu
Ай бұрын
Just grow them, I have 25 blueberry plants, they last for 50+ years.
I would be interested in how AI is helping with sorting. I suspect its machine learning from an image library which isnt AI at all, but AI is what everyone likes to call any form of automation these days
Great blueberries harvester
WoW I shall look at the humble blueberry very differently from now on 😮
Berries you pick yourself straight from the bushes are the tastiest and sweetest. As well as the fact that these berries from the forest do not have so many chemicals on them. The berry is a delicate fruit that should be eaten shortly after picking. To withstand transport and then weeks of storage in stores, chemicals must be sprayed. There are people here who have never picked berries in the forest and write that those from the forest are small and sour. This is complete nonsense, because no one collects unripe fruit from a bush (unless it is a machine) and there are areas where forest berries are similar in size to cultivated ones (I picked them myself).
@renewableinvesments6826
3 ай бұрын
the best!
@ana-maria448
3 ай бұрын
I agree. It's different when you are picking them up freshly.
@aidajam3294
3 ай бұрын
No, they are sour and small
@jackalopefpv1708
2 ай бұрын
not true, grandma
@Zosia.B
2 ай бұрын
@@rabbitfarmus People who have never picked berries themselves in the forest do not understand this.
I put blueberries in my pancake mix, and a few on top of my oats in the morning.
love blueberries
these are the blueberries with white interiors and more pesticides than vitamins left in them
I love my cheap blueberries. Those boost up my morning.
Not so sure. We get unripe berries, squashed berries, small, med and large berries and berries with stems still on them - all in one bag.
Gorgeous blueberries😍
I guess "AI" means any machine that had electricity in it
@mistermood4164
2 ай бұрын
Ai just means you’re using an algorithm to get an output.
Each tiny blueberry is scanned and analyzed..............amazing!!!
I love it so much. Everyday I enjoy. South Korea. Thank you.❤❤❤
Love blueberries
Thank you for this video. Very interesting and good to know how my blueberries I purchase are prepared.
Thank you for this video. Very interesting technology processing Machines
Amazing
Satellite imagery utilized by modern agriculture machines enhances overall farm management.
@sheik9956
2 ай бұрын
myth.
Gloria a ti,señor,por todo/ Viva Christo Rey
My grandparents had a blueberry farm in Pennsylvania. I grew up picking blueberries every summer. I would earn about $40, which was a lot of money if you were 11 in 1966. I wonder what my grandfather would have thought about all this. I guess for me, I feel a little sad.
@olwethu2424
2 ай бұрын
Why are you sad
@barblee9615
18 күн бұрын
Your grandfather would be very, very amazed 😳at the speed starting from collecting of blueberries to the end where they are packed. I know I am 😋
❤ Blueberries. This is so awesome!
Wonderful thank you 👍🎉
Did anyone else notice the dead bird in the white crate on 9:09 ?
Seriously 😳 awestruck for real.
In Finland, it's free to pick from forest and tax free when you sell it
So this is how my store-bought blueberries are harvested. Cool.
@Adrian-cw8yu
Ай бұрын
You can take the seeds from the store brought blueberries and grow them, I grew a lot of blueberries that way and brought some other plants and the plants last for many years
Hooray for this company, now I too, can afford frozen blueberries
I really like growing fruit trees
We wouldn't have blueberries without Nvidia!!
Holy crap no wonder so many brands of blueberries are so beat up by the time they get to the grocery store. These things are being thrown around the conveyors like ping pong balls wtf
Good fresh food in mega projects is so so desirable
Really impression with your machine 🤩🤩🤩🤩
Good job good luck then good life but quality and safety always first 👍🥳🎉😘
Que fruta preciosa.
Saying "Human inspection represents the conclusive sorting stage where berries undergo a final examination to detect and remove any lingering defects or contaminants the ai detector machine or sorter may have over looked." just after praising how much better and faster, etc the machine is at detecting and sorting feels like a cop out for the company, if the machines were so much better you wouldn't have a human doing the final check... This is just another company trying to get costs down at the expense of everything else. They could employ people to sort it, but "that's too expensive" which actually translates to "I don't get as much profits, so I can't buy another yacht this year." None of these huge companies are struggling, the fact they can afford the machines in the first places shows that they're not struggling by any means.
Love berries
How they wrote this script tho.. Cutting labor cost will improve the consumer satisfaction... Lol 😂
@sylvariatzaka
13 күн бұрын
(Increases CEO's bank account satisfaction)
power of both robots and human hands feed the world.
Berries and other plants are great food for meat animals . My chickens live on tomatoes, squash and extra strawberries. I will never feed my animals anything other than whole foods.
@brunhildmeyer8995
2 ай бұрын
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Love my blueberries, I like the wild kind better though : )
And such a healthy job too. 😊
In my store organic and regular blueberries have the same brand label on the packaging I wish I could see how is that being accomplished in the factory setting The same goes for a lot of other produce 🤔
Wild blueberries in North America are grown in the Province of Québec and they taste much better than cultivated blueberries
@Adrian-cw8yu
Ай бұрын
Are they the blueberries that grow small plants basically on the ground, but the blueberry is blueish inside, unlike normal blueberries that are like clear/whiteish inside
Very impressive. I love blueberries, especially blueberry pies.
What a long and hard process to just have such a healthy and very nutritional food to the market!! I pray to Allah that we appreciate all this effort and to do at least our part to not waste food or to not take good care of it . I pray to Allah to bless everyone who is not wasting food because it is not meant to be wasted. ❤❤❤
Have you ever wondered how blueberries are grown and processed on a large scale?
Huge amount and large fruit farm are very busy.
lovely
Why are these machines so good at reducing costs and efficiency but the blueberries are still super expensive at the store? All profits going to buying/maintaining the machines or are the CEOs taking too big a cut? Maybe they should go back to human sorting.
woooooo ~~ "FrEeZiNG TeChNoLoGy"
AI is like the new bluetooth. Blueberrytooth
1:47 RIP Mr. Hopper
AI is needed to determine color differences?
@devilious123
3 ай бұрын
How would you sort full ripe. from not berries, spoiled or damaged goof
wow
In my store organic and regular blueberries have the same brand label on the packaging I wish I could see how is that being accomplished in the factory setting The same goes for a lot of other produce
It would be interesting to know how green and unripe blueberries are used or dealt with.
@hyperarm
4 ай бұрын
as a small blueberry farm owner, I still see that ALL commercial blueberries are still sold UNRIPE even with Ai. When You wait week or 2 weeks till full ripening then each blueberry variety taste different, sweetness percentage is different etc. But UNRIPE taste almost same , without any character in it. fully ripened DUKE or NELSON is just insane taste comparing to unripe.
@rogerhodges7656
4 ай бұрын
My father was an Agronomist who did research on row crops. He grew blueberries for home use and ate or put up about 25 gallons/year. Three or four times that quantity were given to others or were picked by friends. Berries were always hand picked and to the extent possible, only ripe berries were picked,.
@lenny108
4 ай бұрын
These berries have almost no taste.
@lenny108
4 ай бұрын
@@hawkfarm Seems they do not collect them in the forests anymore.
people at the end literally barehanded touching the berries xd i feel like this could be run way more efficiently
i see Grasshopper inside bluberri
Overkill comes to mind.
я в 70-х годах ее собирал...в лесу с бабкой под -80-ть.чужая, что работала на -НКВД при -СССР....полезная ягода.....
Do they count them ?
AI should tell them what’s the deal nutrient wise for their plants too
Excuse me. Can i download video?
Everything is called AI these days even when it's not as in this factory.
@FakeReal007
4 ай бұрын
lol yea they can call any form of automation, apps or software “AI” these days.
Complains about machine picking unripe fruit, later: discards perfectly fine fruit as excess to avoid market price downswing when market has glut.
These chain machines are amazing
How do they get the blue in there?
@slicktheslickster
4 ай бұрын
ok@@jay1373
I was a blueberry picker for 35 years ,yes my fingers are stained purple .
Berries are good for the health
Cool
As someone who grew up in Eastern Europe, let me tell you something. North American blueberries taste like sh*t. These blueberries in the area where I grew up are called dogs berries. I remember paying for one pound €3.50, never sort any of them, all of them tasted so good, plus naturally organic from high altitude mountains. I believe in technology and advancement, but if you want real blueberries, August is their time for harvest is the East Europe. 3:33
@sylvariatzaka
13 күн бұрын
They vary mate. Been living in North America my whole life. I've had amazing blueberries and crap ones.
But do they taste good? Lots tumbling, id be worried they be so soft when packaged
@sylvariatzaka
13 күн бұрын
(they will be)
ナカシマのフォークリフト
Don’t buy in the off season and support local farmers; it’s the correct thing to do!
I am surprised how the berries don't get damaged by so many kicks and bumps. 😊
@sylvariatzaka
13 күн бұрын
(they do)
And to think those berries will just rot in my refrigerator
Hmmm pesticides and AI machinery. Where can I buy this. 🤢
I am blue berry eater like millions of people out there lol 😂 love the hygiene process..
Farmed blueberries with extremely out watered taste, at least they are cheap for people not access to the natural product.
No gloves when picking them off the conveyer belt?
Shame these blueberries tastes nothing like wild forest ones.
Вот для чего нужна наука ,чтоб человеку труд облегчать! Это прекрасно когда есть такая автоматизация предприятия. Можно ведь и платить человеку хорошо и на работе мертвым не падать работая по 12 часов
My blueberries always have some weird squished one in it 😠
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Lotta red ones fot$10 pound,!
did the voice is AI as well?
I wonder how they keep crows from eating all the berries in the field?
@FakeReal007
4 ай бұрын
They keep a small army of eagles on watch at the farms.