But the advent of tractors and combine harvesters did not lead to permanent unemployment.
Mr. Noseworthy of Fur Harvesters says he doesn't expect the muskrat-belly market to collapse disastrously.
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They can make much more money from renting their lands to big-game hunters than to peyote harvesters.
Harvesters pick the seaweed on beaches, cutting the plants with a short-bladed knife to allow them to regrow.
In Kyrgyzstan he is driven around in a bucking jeep with harvesters among the walnut trees of the Ferghana Valley.
Using the harvesters on the wings, the researchers were able to draw out over 45 micro-watts of electricity per insect.
The researchers created two piezoelectric energy harvesters, one attached to each wing.
But do not confuse harvesters of sun and wind with electricity plutocrats.
To compete with hand-picking, robot harvesters will need to twist, pluck, cut or suck produce from stems and handle it as gently as possible.
Even though grape harvesters, which shake or knock grapes from vines, have been around for about 40 years, some growers still pick by hand.
Modified grape harvesters with rotating fingers then knock off the raisins.
And he is keen to import American- and Israeli-made cotton harvesters.
Indirectly, that legislation also ensured that the small band of predominantly Latino peyote harvesters, or peyoteros, in south Texas would be able to continue their trade.
Experienced harvesters, however, can pick 1, 000 buttons in an hour.
Given some refinements in design, they estimate it may be possible to convert enough energy such that the harvesters alone would be sufficient to power all of the implants in the cyborg beetle.
Since the mid-1990s, with the introduction of a quota system that limits the amount of oysters that could be harvesters, the annual haul has rebounded to an average of 72, 000 bushels in the past 10 years.
Oyster harvesters are cautiously optimistic about aquaculture.
In addition to affording the harvesters a living, the peyote business helps funnel the dollars of Indian peyote-seekers to restaurants and hotels in large cities like Laredo as well as small towns like Rio Grande City, which is home to five of the seven licensed harvesters.
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