Freewill
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- Oct 26, 2011
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No, but that is too little for picking tomatoes,
No picking needed anymore
It was hard to tell for sure how many but that trolly car looking thing doing the picking had several workers on board. I saw an operation similar to that back in the 1980's but the workers were walking along side the picker doing something rather than riding on it.
I don't know anything about it, but I would think that the machine could only pick a majority of tomatoes. You might still need humans to get the ones the machine didn't get.
Looking at the video it appears that the whole plant is harvested or pretty darn close. I am not sure how they get all the fruit to ripen at the same time nor separate it. I am thinking they must have some people in the picker sorting out the green tomatoes but I don't see where the green tomatoes are going.
I just found this other video that explains the process step by step. But all it says is that the green ones are hand picked at the site and then further sorted later on. I'm guessing more hand picking.
Your picture and the video don't seem to match up. Yours is what I would expect. The video seems too pure, unless there are a bunch of sorters in the picker.