harvest
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In agriculture, the same knowledge could help researchers develop cereal crops that are less likely to fall over before harvest.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
It’s believed to have its origins in the seasonality of money demand when the world economy was dominated by agriculture—planting during spring and harvest in the autumn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Several other attacks on Palestinians during the annual olive harvest have also been reported in the run-up to the elections.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Veteran journalist Hazem Bader had been planning to cover the Palestinians' olive harvest, a flashpoint for tensions in the Israeli-occupied territory.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
She went off to harvest the birdlime traps.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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In New York, for example, she engaged high-profile feminists in the grape boycott, highlighting the horrendous working conditions of mothers and pregnant women during harvests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
A powerful El Niño threatens to disrupt coffee harvests around the world, adding to farmers’ already steep production costs.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
By revealing how a previously underexplored class of plant immune receptors can be engineered to recognize multiple fungal threats, the researchers have identified a possible new strategy for protecting future harvests.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
Some 1,200 sheep are brought in to graze on the crops in between rice harvests, and they leave behind organic matter, which enriches the soil naturally.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
The early harvests were poor, but they soon improved.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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Farmworkers – who harvested cotton, vegetables and fruits — organized and marched for roughly 400 miles from the Valley to Austin to demand fair wages and better working conditions.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
There are thousands of retirement-age turbines waiting to be harvested as America’s wind industry ages, reports Ed Ballard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
New Mexico sued the company in 2021 after revelations surfaced that a U.K. political consulting firm had harvested millions of Facebook users’ personal data without their consent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Cambridge Analytica was a political consulting firm found to have improperly harvested personal data from millions of Facebook users for targeted political advertising, notably during the 2016 US presidential election.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
When they’d harvested the last crop in October, they’d head back to Texas and school.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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Several other participants harvesting olives are still in detention, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Existing scorpion antivenoms are produced by injecting horses with venom and harvesting their plasma antibodies, making them expensive to produce, variable and effective only against specific species.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
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
Not until May were the men harvesting the best of the crop.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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