harvest
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A caller may be attempting to harvest your personal information.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
However, it has escalated dramatically during this year's olive harvest, which is essential to Palestinian livelihoods.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
He was attacked as he joined the harvest as a symbolic gesture with Palestinians, for whom olives are an important cultural symbol.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
LA CROSSE, Wisconsin — September is both campaign season and parade season in Wisconsin, as communities across the state celebrate Oktoberfest and the harvest of fall crops like apples and pumpkins.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
It was the orchard after the harvest, with bushels of apples under all of the trees.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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"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
That would have been especially troublesome for a community whose religious festivals were closely connected with agriculture, harvests, first fruits, and the seasonal cycle.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 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
While Glidden harvests oysters even when ice forms on the Damariscotta, its tours run only through mid-October.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
We grew our own plantains and coconuts, the harvests were good and there was always food in the house—at least a bagful of rice, a little dhal, if no more.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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That price is paid primarily by the poorer countries where the main ingredient of fishmeal is harvested and processed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
While only 80,000 bison are harvested in a year—the beef industry processes more cattle in a day—that scarcity has pushed bison prices to record highs, often nearly double those of beef.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Dessert featured the two leaders and their fellow diners tucking into vanilla crémeux with sour cherry confit, with an accompanying ice cream "made with harvested White House honey".
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Food needs to be harvested, transported, stored, sold and — last but not least — purchased.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
I pointed with my lips across the fire to Minerva, who was absorbed in chewing through a bag of porcupine quills she’d harvested last week when we ran across its carcass.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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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
In the fields, the cost of diesel needed to run combines as farmers start harvesting soybeans, corn and other crops this month has skyrocketed more than 67 percent since February.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Corn belt farmers are in the process of harvesting their fields, with harvesting expected to continue into November.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Joel’s cows were harvesting their own feed: grasses that had grown right there, powered by little more than sunlight.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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