harvester
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This Animal Farm does indeed put certain aspects of the book through a proverbial combine harvester.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
"Sometimes the wheat's too dry, so the grain is too small and risks being thrown out with the straw" by the combine harvester, said Franck Laborde, FNSEA's head of climate risk.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
Philip is a harvester of periwinkles, but says the sea snails - a delicacy in the Niger Delta - are hard to come by these days in the mangroves and swamps.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Mills farms 4,000 acres with five tractors and a harvester.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
“The harvester works on, uh, solar energy,” said Ton-Ton.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
The Taylor family is credited with helping to pioneer numerous innovations, from bagged salads to the U.S. industry’s first automated harvesters for romaine lettuce, cabbage and celery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
For mezcal producers and harvesters, that could make sustainable production more complicated.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2026
He said he had seen videos that showed flocks of ravens hovering behind the harvesters so they could “feast on the carnage.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025
Mechanization soon followed, with threshing machines and combine harvesters leaving less behind for gleaners to collect.
From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2025
First there was the local apple crop, threatening to rot because the harvesters had all gone into the army or war factories.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
