Gertrud admits that they made her angry, and she sent them off berry picking in the forest of Ilsenstein.

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None of these alternatives appeal to farmers as much as SAWS. British workers are often unreliable: many participants in a trial scheme for the local unemployed in Angus, Scotland, quit after a week, complaining that berry-picking was not for them.

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Mr. Bryan, the California berry grower, says mechanization doesn't work for picking berries, which ripen at different rates.

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