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harvest

[hahr-vist] / ˈhɑr vɪst /




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This is a place better known for commercial fishing, where the fall moose harvest makes top news.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

In agriculture, the same knowledge could help researchers develop cereal crops that are less likely to fall over before harvest.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

Several other attacks on Palestinians during the annual olive harvest have also been reported in the run-up to the elections.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Veteran journalist Hazem Bader had been planning to cover the Palestinians' olive harvest, a flashpoint for tensions in the Israeli-occupied territory.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Then I went foraging for fronds from the different palm species on the island, as well as for vines and reeds, dragging my harvest back and piling it into a heap.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

A powerful El Niño threatens to disrupt coffee harvests around the world, adding to farmers’ already steep production costs.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

By revealing how a previously underexplored class of plant immune receptors can be engineered to recognize multiple fungal threats, the researchers have identified a possible new strategy for protecting future harvests.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

"Growers like to have people in the mix to make some of those very critical decisions – especially when it comes to harvests," he says.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Should energy stay high through next year, and the El Nino weather pattern hit harvests, growth would likely be significantly weaker, while central banks would respond to higher inflation with bigger rate moves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

And he bought three pigs and a flock of fowls to feed on the grains spilled from the harvests.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

Farmworkers – who harvested cotton, vegetables and fruits — organized and marched for roughly 400 miles from the Valley to Austin to demand fair wages and better working conditions.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

There are thousands of retirement-age turbines waiting to be harvested as America’s wind industry ages, reports Ed Ballard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Cambridge Analytica was a political consulting firm found to have improperly harvested personal data from millions of Facebook users for targeted political advertising, notably during the 2016 US presidential election.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

It involved overtake mode - which allows an extra 0.5MJ of energy to be harvested - being switched on and off again in the space of 28 seconds.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The tree branches couldn’t still be alive, and it had to use plants that weren’t harvested for another purpose.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

The Woodland Trust said unsustainable harvesting of plants - and particularly fungi - could put wildlife under pressure.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Existing scorpion antivenoms are produced by injecting horses with venom and harvesting their plasma antibodies, making them expensive to produce, variable and effective only against specific species.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

And, of course, there’s a brain-melting plan for SpaceX to launch data centers into orbit, harvesting free power from the sun.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

Diamond said there’s also a long tradition of locals harvesting food from the ocean.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Every day she works in the rice fields, planting and harvesting rice.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung


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