They came from an apple packinghouse. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
There are no data on the number of full-time, year-round agricultural workers, such as packinghouse employees. From Wordnik.com. [All Today's News - Sightline Daily] Reference
For example, the agricultural-livestock packinghouse, the poultry slaughterhouse. From Wordnik.com. [24TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ASSAULT ON MONCADA BARRA] Reference
In Chicago a man who had made a fortune selling pork to the Union Army established a packinghouse. From Wordnik.com. [THE AMERICAN WEST] Reference
You'll have the commercial packinghouse, the uniformity, the quality, and that will supply the market. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Lauch Faircloth, July 16, 1999. Interview I-0070. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Page 25 when Don Smith, who was an old packinghouse worker on their executive board became the director as part of the agreement. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with John Russell, July 19, 1975. Interview E-0014-3. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
And therefore they gave ... then I ... with practically all but the predominantly black unions, like packinghouse locals, gave me their money, and I put it in escrow. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with David Burgess, September 25, 1974. Interview E-0001. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
There were some opportunities in an electrical plant that was opening up and so the former packinghouse employees were offered the opportunity to retrain for these new jobs. From Wordnik.com. [The Challenge of 1963] Reference
"It's not as likely in the packinghouse," she said. From Wordnik.com. [Western Farm Press RSS Feed] Reference
Henry is now working ten hours a day out to the packinghouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation] Reference
No packinghouse whistles, no trains rumbling past at all hours. From Wordnik.com. [Jen Robinson's Book Page] Reference
This was a farce, as the system cannot trace beyond the packinghouse. From Wordnik.com. Reference
A conference room and offices in the packinghouse serve as a family museum of sorts. From Wordnik.com. [news | SH | http://www.heraldtribune.com] Reference
In a certain packinghouse, grapefruit are packed in bags and the bags are packed in cases. From Wordnik.com. [LearnHub Activities] Reference
My family bought oranges at the Santiago packinghouse for many years -- starting in the early 60s. From Wordnik.com. [Dissent the Blog] Reference
Every year, over 30% of packinghouse workers suffer on-the-job injuries requiring medical attention. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
The orchard and packinghouse operator pays 80 percent of the premium for workers and their dependents. From Wordnik.com. [All Today's News - Sightline Daily] Reference
Jan Narciso, a microbiologist at the Winter Haven lab, discussed packinghouse treatments to kill canker. From Wordnik.com. [news | LL | http://www.theledger.com] Reference
Like how he and his daddy used to haul cattle across State Road 40 from Ocala to the packinghouse in Daytona Beach. From Wordnik.com. [Daytona Beach News-Journal Online] Reference
They fill his days in the open-air packinghouse in Winter Haven where the Roe family specializes in fresh tangerines. From Wordnik.com. [news | SH | http://www.heraldtribune.com] Reference
The protective measures include registration and monitoring of commercial groves, surveys and stricter packinghouse standards. From Wordnik.com. [Merced Sun-Star: front] Reference
Tate had cut his teeth in the post-war battle between union workers and packinghouse bosses in Omaha -- a battle the unions won. From Wordnik.com. [Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org] Reference
Consistent with Narciso's research, packinghouse treatments do not kill all canker bacteria, Bock said, but they do decline over time. From Wordnik.com. [news | LL | http://www.theledger.com] Reference
Baldwin and Browning noted one of the most important issues is finding effective packinghouse treatments that kill the canker bacteria. From Wordnik.com. [news | LL | http://www.theledger.com] Reference
The risk is especially low given packinghouse treatment procedures, which include pulling visibly infected fruit from the packing line. From Wordnik.com. [news | LL | http://www.theledger.com] Reference
They are now swept along in a trough to a "pocket," carried up by an endless chain of buckets, and then wheeled away to the packinghouse. From Wordnik.com. [Diggers in the Earth] Reference
Some had started at the packinghouse right out of high school, others were married with children and yet others had worked at the plant for decades. From Wordnik.com. [ Features from Minnesota Public Radio] Reference
Just another packinghouse worker in a bloody, soaking apron; fingernails soft and cracking from the brine; and a smell I couldn't get out of my skin. From Wordnik.com. [Jen Robinson's Book Page] Reference
Posey, R-Rockledge, met with representatives from the 14,000-acre citrus farm and packinghouse, one of largest exporters of grapefruit in the country. From Wordnik.com. [tcpalm.com Stories] Reference
He’s just a little speck in this world, said Dora Garcia, 49, a packinghouse supervisor. From Wordnik.com. [Man says he cut Virgin Mary tree] Reference
That there is no one in their youngest generation who wants the grove, or the packinghouse, or the roadside stand. From Wordnik.com. [news | SH | http://www.heraldtribune.com] Reference
3,000 people looking down at the packinghouse yard. From Wordnik.com. [ Features from Minnesota Public Radio] Reference
He was raised in the packinghouse. From Wordnik.com. [news | SH | http://www.heraldtribune.com] Reference
A perplexing packinghouse problem. From Wordnik.com. [Postbulletin.com Local News] Reference
Greenhouse, packinghouse, and drying tables. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 3] Reference
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