"Intangibles" justify the salad leaf grower's decision to invest in a weeder.

2026-04-01 00:00

For the New Zealand salad leaf producer LeaderBrand, the decision to acquire a laser weeder was not just a simple calculation of replacing manual weeding with automation. According to General Manager of Farming Gordon McPhail, "Some people may be very one-dimensional: Right, I spend

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