Local corn, peaches and hops are typically picked by hand because the crops are so delicate.
At sunrise, a harvest crew with the Tuxedo Corn Company rip ears of Olathe Sweet brand sweet corn from a field off Falcon Road southwest of Olathe, Colorado, on Monday, July 22, 2024. Before dawn on a cool July morning, the rumble of cars breaks the silence on a farm on Colorado’s Western Slope.
What’s more impressive, however, are the dozens of agricultural workers it transports, those who are responsible for bringing this coveted crop to the hungry Colorado masses. At Tuxedo Corn, workers follow the retrofitted military vehicle through the cornfields and pick ears that they deposit in collection trays on each wing. Individuals standing on the truck then gather the ears and stack them into crates of 48 each. Those standing on the second level build and distribute the crates that eventually get filled. And once they are, workers slide the crates down a ramp and stack them onto a flatbed truck that’s being towed behind the picking vehicle.
From left, farm workers Luis Enrique Yebismea Jupa, left, and Miguel Ángel Bernal Garcia search for ripe peaches to harvest in a peach orchard at the Rancho Durazno farm east of Palisade, Colorado, Wednesday morning, July 31, 2024. But today’s harvest is different. Owners Audrey Gehlhausen and Chris Della Bianca are collecting and bagging wet hops. These hops, fresh off the bine, will soon be sent to breweries raw and used immediately in brewing.Worker Kevin Andrews uses a machete to cut down vines of hops at the Billy Goat Hop Farm south of Montrose, Colorado, before sunrise on Friday, Aug. 13, 2021.
Once driven back to the production shed, workers feed the lanky bines into a massive machine called a wolf picker, which separates the hop cones from the rest of the plant. Green hop fragments shower everyone in the vicinity like a light snowfall.The hop harvest leverages more machinery than corn or peaches, mostly because the cones have to be processed using specialized equipment before they’re sold. Still, tools like the pelletizer rely on humans to make them work.
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