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harvest

[hahr-vist] / ˈhɑr vɪst /




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A growing cadre of volunteers increasingly helps with the next step, the actual harvest, scooping acorns off the ground and into bags and buckets.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

Che, the former excavator operator, said he was glad his first harvest came through last year, and that he hopes to break even soon.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

"We've just started the harvest season, and we very much need hands, but it's very hard to find them," Sholudko said.

From Barron's Sep. 15, 2026

U.S. farmers will produce a record-breaking harvest of 4.52 billion bushels of soybeans in 2026, according to projections from the U.S.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

Come harvest time, the entire community would gather together and work in one another’s fields—the White families as well as Colored families cooperating to ensure that everyone survived.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

Once, border migration patterns resembled a loop: thousands of laborers, mostly men, commuted here once or twice a year from Mexico to jobs in the fields, then on to other jobs once harvests were over.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

Intensive farming practices themselves contribute to climate change, and farmland is increasingly being abandoned by producers who cannot make ends meet or survive harvests lost to extreme weather.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

Three winemakers earlier this month filed suit against the owner of Hundred Acre Wines, Jayson Woodbridge, and his company alleging that smoke from the wildfire ruined their harvests, the Press Democrat reported.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

Hershey points out a more fundamental objection to Finemore’s thesis: El Niño years can bring good cocoa harvests as well as bad ones.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Those wild cereal harvests were precursors to the domestication of the earliest crops, the cereals wheat and barley, in the Fertile Crescent.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

But trees are now growing faster than wood is being harvested.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

"Farmers need to quickly harvest grains from the fields, not to lose the crop. They need to be able to sell the crop they harvested and reinvest money in the next production cycle."

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

The pristine farms, forests, ocean and rivers serve as the country’s pantry, where Māori food is regional, and ingredients are harvested based on seasonality and availability.

From Salon Jul. 26, 2026

Antivenom is manufactured by providing a small dose of the harvested venom into either a sheep or horse, which trigger’s the animal’s immune system into creating antibodies.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

They grew quickly and could be harvested within a few months of sowing, a big advantage for incipient farmers still on the borderline between nomadic hunters and settled villagers.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The presentation also features a system for harvesting data from mainstream webmail servers and internal email systems, along with data visualization tools that map out email communication networks.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

This year he's harvesting 3,500kg of the fruit, all of which is sold in the city of Bengalaru.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

Some trees were planted in Costa Rica, but the defendants did not maintain the plantation or fund infrastructure to help with harvesting, prosecutors said.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

Wealthy Americans are harvesting losses, considering accelerated charitable deductions and analyzing whether their Opportunity Zone investments have declined in value, advisers say.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

Of all the food-acquiring methods of Aboriginal Australians, millet harvesting is perhaps the one most likely to have evolved eventually into crop production.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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