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Mechanization soon followed, with threshing machines and combine harvesters leaving less behind for gleaners to collect.

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The Taklamakan Desert was a vast floor of threshing dust.

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It takes a village, not a threshing machine, to complete the harvest of pounds of watermelon seeds that will fill the simple, white packets sold by Turtle Tree Seed.

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She downloaded the book’s audio version and listened to it as she drove her 25-ton John Deere combine through her fields, reaping, threshing and winnowing hundreds of bushels.

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Adelaide connects socially with men who work the land as cowboys or on threshing crews.

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