harvest

Farmers are gearing up for the harvest season, and large parts of the Northeast are less than a month away from burning heating oil to stay warm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

"Aggressive" pruning is needed to keep the harvest at a height that's convenient for workers.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

His community struggles to survive a single harvest ruined by floods, and sees "the farmers are getting more and more aged, and the newer generation is not interested in farming."

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

In 2023, with El Niño denting the harvest, India suspended some rice exports, contributing to a run-up in global prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Her chief festival, of course, came at the harvest time.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

But Spain and France have also been hit by heat waves that hurt harvests, and the Strait of Hormuz crisis has caused fertilizer costs to spiral.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 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

That episode was blamed for chocolate-price inflation after floods followed by dry winds devastated cocoa harvests in key producers Ivory Coast and Ghana.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

In France, farmers are bracing for their smallest corn crop since 1980, and winegrowers are reporting some of the earliest harvests on record.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

The harvests were past, and the grain they beat out upon the threshing floor which was also the dooryard to the house.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

The pattern accelerated after the Cold War, when Washington harvested the “peace dividend,” cutting forces and procurement and allowing much of the production capacity behind them to disappear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

“Meta harvested kids data. That’s how Meta makes money,” O’Neill said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

If you take a loaf of bread as an example, first the grain is grown, harvested, milled and stored until it is ready to be taken to a factory.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

"This year is historic because the grapes have never been harvested in July before," said Matteo Castellani, head of the Coldiretti farming union for Casteggio, south of Pavia.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

As humble a product as it was, sponges were extremely important to those who bought them and profitable to those who harvested them.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

Last year, three Chinese nationals who had stayed at his hotel were fined and deported after illegally harvesting protected crabs native to Amami-Oshima.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

El Niño has affected rainfall in Thailand, while heavy rain has disrupted cane harvesting in Brazil, the world's largest sugar producer, where mills are also diverting more cane to ethanol.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Some winegrowers elsewhere in Germany already started harvesting in the second week of August, which is exceptionally early, industry group the German Wine Institute said this week.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

"Cytology brushes can be used when dry and do an excellent job of harvesting cellular material without damaging the integrity of the artifact being sampled," says Breen.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

They don’t grow anything, and it is growing things—preparing, planting, weeding, harvesting, storing—that takes time.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell