harvest work
Gathering the crops
Harvest work is the labor involved in gathering mature crops from fields—cutting, picking, bundling, and transporting agricultural produce.
The term often implies seasonal, physically demanding employment: Migrant workers follow harvest work from farm to farm.
It can extend to any intensive effort of gathering or collecting: The harvest work of compiling oral histories took years.
- reapingCutting crops for collection
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- threshingExtracting grain from stalks
- gleaningCollecting leftover grain
- pickingAct of selecting
golden wheat · bushels · fields · crops · grain · combine · sickle · scythe · laborers · farm hands · hired help · autumn · yield · bumper crop · bountiful · abundance · sweat · farmhands
harvest workplanting
Placing seeds in earth
sowing · seeding · tilling · plowing · cultivation
harvest workfallow period
Unproductive interval for recovery
off-season · idle time · dormancy · land clearing · rest period
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