Sentence examples for mechanical picker from inspiring English sources

But most growers say they cannot foresee a mechanical picker handling something as delicate as a bosc pear or an empire apple.

The cherries are mostly picked by hand, although some larger farms use mechanical pickers.

Mechanical pickers try to separate out the open-shelled nuts, but some that are closed invariably make their way into the pile.

The result was a profusion of herbicides and fertilizers, which produced overly abundant grapes, harvested early by mechanical pickers because growers feared the risk of waiting for optimal ripeness.

They set the date of the harvest; they permit or ban irrigation, rule on the adding of sugar during fermentation and on the use of mechanical pickers in the vineyards.

Then, to facilitate mechanical pickers, breeders played with the tomato plant's root structure.

They had mechanical pickers of the cotton, and they had herbicides to thin out the boll weevils.

As mechanical pickers gradually replaced the human workforce, hop-picking had become a memory by the time the branch closed in 1961.

The mechanical cotton picker spurred a migration to northern cities-and the civil rights movement.

These inventions included the television, facsimile machine, mechanical cotton picker, and trailer homes, among others.

Black people moved to the city during the 1930s when the invention of the mechanical cotton picker put many people out of work in the south.