FMC Cascade Tomato Harvester Being Moved into Henry Ford Museum, 1997
THF146406 / FMC Cascade Tomato Harvester Being Moved into Henry Ford Museum, 1997
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Artifact Overview
Artifact Details
Artifact
Negative (Photograph)
Date Made
04 September 1997
Subject Date
04 September 1997
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
EI.1929.N.B.113283.5
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 2.375 in
Width: 2.375 in
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Tomatoes need careful handling. Growers who contract with processors used to rely on human laborers. The quest to plant and harvest more, faster, gave mechanical engineers and plant geneticists incentive to design a machine and a tomato it could harvest. The FMC Cascade Harvester carried 10-12 laborers who sorted debris out of the crop, fewer laborers than growers had needed for handpicking.