Sentence examples for mechanical picking from inspiring English sources

A chemical defoliant is usually applied before mechanical picking to cause the plants to shed their leaves, thus encouraging more uniform ripening of the bolls.

Given the perishable nature of the berries and the unlikelihood of mechanical picking, the fruit is generally grown near centres of consumption or processing and where sufficient labour is available.

The ghastly supermarket versions were spawned at the University of California's Davis campus, where Prof. Gordie Hanna, to save local farmers from a labor shortage in the 1950s, developed a tomato thick-skinned enough to withstand mechanical picking and square enough to fit tidily into shipping crates.

Women in saris, their movements mechanical, picked up the chunks, placed them in the containers atop their heads, walked listlessly down the street and then dumped them into another pile only a few feet away.

To the south, a half-dozen cranes tower over the still-smoking rubble of the trade center, their mechanical arms picking gingerly at mountains of twisted steel and depositing the wreckage in enormous dust-coated trucks.

Handpicking also produces considerably cleaner cotton; mechanical harvesters pick the bolls by suction, accumulating loose material, dust, and dirt, and cannot distinguish between good and discoloured cotton.

Most mornings, Mr. Garcia says, are loud — as his big truck rumbles to the curb, and its mechanical arm picks up, empties and repositions 90-pound plastic trash bins — and predictable.

And the company managed to reduce the mechanical noise picked up when you make video clips with your phone, too.

But it was ruled as a mechanical failure, Hindes picking himself up to help his more experienced team-mates to an Olympic record.

How something as simple and mechanical as just picking up a glass can become important and poetic.

Following the mechanical feather picking, the carcasses are dipped in a melted, dark-coloured wax.