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Exotic and unusual harvesters: Sugar cane
2014-09-08 16:54:44| Sugar Industry News
The earliest sugar cane harvesters date from the 1920s and a single machine could replace up to 100 labourers. In Australia, mechanical harvesters first appeared in the 1950s and were harvesting 85% of the crop by late 1960s. Today that figure is 100%.
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