crop harvesting
Collecting farm yield
Crop harvesting is the process of gathering mature crops from fields.
The term covers everything from hand-picking vegetables to operating combines that cut, thresh, and clean grain in a single pass.
Crop harvesting season keeps farmers working from dawn to dusk.
The timing is critical—too early and yields suffer, too late and weather or pests may damage the crop.
- sickleCurved hand-held harvesting blade
- gleaningCollecting leftover grain
- scytheManual crop-cutting implement
- reapingCutting crops for collection
- wheatCereal crop for flour
golden wheat · threshing · corn · picking · field hands · rice · seasonal workers · combine harvester · farm equipment · grain elevator · grain storage · straw bales · swathing · sorting · drying · dry season · winnowing · migrant workers
- farmworkharvesting, farmworkers, planting, farm labor, milking
- pieceworksewing, tailoring, alterations, hemming, mending
- prison laborprison labor, convict labor, penal labor, hard labor, convict leasing
crop harvestingplanting
Placing seeds in earth
sowing · seeding · germination · tilling · transplanting
crop harvestingcrop destruction
Ruination of cultivated plants
fallowing · field burning · crop failure · crop loss · crop burning