harvester
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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
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
Over several days, Moffett observed at least 90 harvester ants interacting with the smaller cone ants, which belong to an undescribed species in the genus Dorymyrmex.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 14, 2026
Ton-Ton worked toward a conclusion with the same, slow deliberation as the shrimp harvester he drove along the tanks.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
“Robotic harvesters remain slower than human workers and make more errors,” says Jon DeVaney, president of the Washington State Tree Fruit Association.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
Mechanization soon followed, with threshing machines and combine harvesters leaving less behind for gleaners to collect.
From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2025
The industry is turning to robot harvesters, hydroponic tabletop farming and other developing technologies to address some of those challenges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2024
For more than 20 years, salmon caught outside their typical range have been recorded by subsistence harvesters who target other Arctic species, including Dolly Varden and Arctic char.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2024
When her father’s hat peeked over the hill, and the laughter of the harvesters was a far-off chime, Aziz would run into the house to tell everyone, “They’re coming! They’re coming!”
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
