[Zuben Elgenubi]

Tomatoes are next!!!!!

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Tomatoes are next!!!!!

Honestly, I can’t see how this technology can’t apply to any other fruit...

[vbmoneyspender]

They've had tomato harvesters for awhile See Link

I believe strawberries were the last major crop not to have mechanical pickers.

[freedumb2003]

Tomatoes PEOPLE are next!!!!!

[mad_as_he$$]

Err tomatoes have been mechanically harvested for 30+ years.

http://tomatoharvester.com/

[vbmoneyspender]

The machine that revolutionized a harvest - The UC-Blackwelder tomato harvester, developed at the University of California, Davis, in 1949, helped to usher in mechanization that proved vital in the growth of California's tomato-growing business. Partly because of this piece of equipment, California now produces 95 percent of the processing tomatoes grown in the United States.

[Syntyr]

“Tomatoes are next!!!!!”

Please cotton next!!! Haven’t had to do it in ages but as a kid I picked cotten. Those bowls will cut up your fingers and them dang sacks were heavy!!!

[NVDave]

Tomatoes have been mechanically harvested in California for some time. This is why today’s tomatoes taste tough and lifeless, compared to tomatoes of, oh, 30 years ago.

They’re also harvested green, so as to remain tough enough to survive mechanical processing and transportation handling.

The tomatoes that are harvested ripe red are usually taken by large dump trucks to the plants where they’re turned into sauces, soups, etc. They’re stacked deep enough in these end-dump trucks with plastic liners that there’s tomato juice/guts leaking out of the truck the whole time it is rolling down the road.