On Saturday, July 16, Jonathan Pedersen, CEO of Monrovia, spoke to a standing-place-only group at Cultivate’22 about how the nursery has executed automation. Monrovia has rising services at its Azusa, California headquarters, as properly as Visalia, California, Dayton, Oregon, Granby, Connecticut, and Cairo, Georgia. Monrovia grows a wide wide range of crops throughout those spots (additional than 4,000), which helps make automation additional hard. Lots of machines aren’t adaptable plenty of to do what they do for distinct sizes or kinds of vegetation. To complicate matters additional, substantially of today’s automation devices will come from Europe, the place the dimension and scale of nurseries is not the exact as in…