harvester
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In a forest grove to the east, a contractor climbed into a mechanical harvester and pivoted its head to grip and fell a tree, strip its branches and cut the trunk into exact lengths.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
The harvester is out in this Somerset orchard, but the apples have rotted before they ripened, because of the drought.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
He said he would hang on until next week to cut his wheat, for fear the combine harvester would spark a fire in the parched crop.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
Mills farms 4,000 acres with five tractors and a harvester.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
And so the shrimp harvester ground on until it reached the corner where the fence turned right.The road continued north toward a low range of hills.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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The letter indicated that 572 employees will be terminated, including 459 harvesters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Modern tractors and combine harvesters are so high in technology such as GPS steering that it's no longer such a leap to consider autonomous harvesting.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
This season, Yerxa said he’s paying roughly double for the diesel he uses to power the farm’s tractors, combines, harvesters and dozens of other heavy-duty machines.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
For mezcal producers and harvesters, that could make sustainable production more complicated.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2026
The same five harvesters were there, and Elvio talked and joked with them all, sometimes in English but mostly in Spanish.
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
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