harvest
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“We don’t have a choice to not harvest something because of the price of fuel. We don’t have that luxury.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
There’s continuous underlying demand globally for diesel used in transportation, but the Northern Hemisphere sees a surge in diesel demand in the fall, due to the harvest, and again toward the end of the year.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
Apples are at least somewhat forgiving – the harvest window for those Granny Smiths is three weeks long, says Carter.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
A few kilometres further south, in San Marzano Oliveto, 41-year-old Luca Garberoglio is also pleased with a fine harvest and insists that stocks are "manageable" at the scale of the small Barbera d'Asti area.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
In addition, once the fire died down, Stone Age entrepreneurs could walk through the smoking remains and harvest charcoaled animals, nuts and tubers.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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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
A weather pattern marked by warming water in the Pacific Ocean, El Niño tends to cause droughts in much of the world, threatening harvests for crops from sugar to wheat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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
Once, border migration patterns resembled a loop: thousands of laborers, mostly men, commuted here once or twice a year from Mexico to jobs in the fields, then on to other jobs once harvests were over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The meager harvests may be enough for subsistence but can rarely be brought to market because farm villages are often hours away on dirt roads from the nearest large town.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Food needs to be harvested, transported, stored, sold and — last but not least — purchased.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
The Royal Observatory Greenwich also lists the Corn Moon as another common name, reflecting the crops traditionally harvested around this time of year.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
The following spring, Georgia’s surveyor-general Henry Yonge planted Bowen’s unfamiliar “Chinese vetches” and harvested three crops in a single season.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
But trees are now growing faster than wood is being harvested.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
After, she pairs those who have harvested kalo before with those who are new to the process.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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He said he had learned about a Benedictine Priory site "which is very interesting" and discovered there had been "a really remarkably large industry in harvesting seaweed".
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
"We started harvesting at the end of July, which is unheard of," said Filippo Mobrici, 59, head of the Barbera d'Asti Consortium.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
“Yes, there are laws,” said Jesus, his face wrinkled from years of harvesting garlic, pruning grape vines and picking blackberries in the sun-baked San Joaquin Valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
They also do farmwork, like harvesting corn, herding sheep, caring for cows and chopping wood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The sun had just finished burning away the morning dew, and farmers harvesting wheat and barley in the fields looked up as we thundered past.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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