Shellers

Peanut farmers sign contracts with "shellers," who purchase raw nuts, remove the shells and sell the nuts to food companies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For some shellers, the trouble is simply getting the nuts they need before the Chinese buy them. ❋ David Wessel (2011)

Adam and Abdul make all types of items, but they told me that their main products are anchors, which range from small to large (2000-5000/= or $26-65) and, chisels and coconut shellers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While China's appetite for pecans has been a windfall for growers, it poses a challenge for pecan shellers—the middlemen who separate nut from shell and then sell the insides to food companies, grocery stories and direct to consumers. ❋ David Wessel (2011)

Pecans traditionally made their way from U.S. and Mexican growers to the eight or so major shellers in the U.S. In good years, says Daniel Zedan, a long-time pecan broker in Wayne, Ill., the price paid for the nuts would fall and growers would complain "that the shellers had cheated them." ❋ David Wessel (2011)

American shellers complained that selling so many premium pecans to China—the Chinese want the biggest, best nuts—would undermine both the domestic market and export markets in Europe. ❋ David Wessel (2011)

But overall, growers and shellers kept each other in check. ❋ David Wessel (2011)

Brandon Thibodeaux for The Wall Street Journal But when shellers held back, the Chinese went directly to growers. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In bad years, growers would demand higher prices, "leading shellers to feel that they had been taken advantage of," he says. ❋ David Wessel (2011)

Declining peanut sales due partly to the salmonella scare and a surplus from last year's bumper crop prompted shellers to curb their buying. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Manufacturers of farm machinery and household goods were encouraged to display their wares, and were given medals for the best revolving horse hay rakes, corn shellers, horse collars and shoes, kerosene lamps, washboards, bar soaps, and artificial teeth—all of which reflected the deep-felt needs of hard-working farm families in the West. ❋ DEE BROWN (2007)

Be it corn shellers -- you've got ploughs, you've got fan mills, all these things, and these are not, again, antiques. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Some 160 shellers are in use in Thailand and elsewhere. ❋ Unknown (1992)

Tables VI. 1 and VI. 2 provide the engine power in kW for mills and shellers of various capacities. ❋ Unknown (1984)

Table VI. 2 provides estimates of “on-site” costs of maize shellers with outputs ranging from 100 kg per hour (manual sheller) to 4,000 kg per hour (motor-driven shellers). ❋ Unknown (1984)

The above energy costs must be estimated for each engine-powered equipment (e.g. shellers, sieves, dryers). ❋ Unknown (1984)

A priori, any developing country should be able to manufacture this type of shellers. ❋ Unknown (1984)

These shellers are invariably fitted with a simple grain cleaning screen or winnowing fan, and have a positive separation of grain and spent-cob. ❋ Unknown (1984)