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The legendary UC-Blackwelder tomato harvester, which arguably saved California's processed tomato industry in the 1960s and raised concerns that machines were depriving people of employment, was ...

Gozitan Domenic Camilleri has really taken the recycling and reuse principles to heart. Instead of buying a tomato harvester, he decided to make one - using a 60-year-old Dodge truck as the base.

Across Iowa’s corn country, huge machines with anteater snouts gulp the ears off 8-ft.-high cornstalks, an instant later spit golden kernels into self-contained bins. In California, packing machines ...