harvest

A decorated egg thrown into the field would be a wish for a good harvest.

In 1972, for instance, the Soviets, recognizing their poor harvest early, quietly cornered the world wheat market.

And the rises were short-lived: prices typically returned to normal with the next harvest.

A quarter of this year's American grain harvest will be used to produce bio-fuel for cars.

A fourth of this year's U.S. grain harvest will go to fuel cars.

Storms and floods in its main potato growing region last year caused the worst harvest in more than 3 decades.

But frequently untreated human waste harvested from lavatories is delivered to farms and spread as fertilizer.

Some scientists are examining the potential for harvesting icebergs form Antarctica, which is estimated to have the biggest reserves of fresh water on the planet.

It is recommended that engineering knowledge and suitable technology in developed countries be introduced to developing countries to improve produce handling in the harvest.

In short, savings are the seed corn of a good economic harvest.

After conducting extensive research in which he studied the festivals of many African groups of people, he decided that the new holiday should be a harvest or "first fruits" celebration, incorporating ideas from many different harvest traditions.

Despite being the continent's second-largest producer of tomatoes, Nigeria is dependent on $1 billion worth of tomato-paste imports every year, as around 75% of the local harvest goes to waste thanks to a lack of proper storage facilities.

In planting and harvest times one can see their bearded men working the fields with horses and their women hanging out the laundry in neat rows to dry.

Kwanzaa is a Kiswahili word meaning "the first fruits of the harvest".

While companies like Facebook harvest attention to generate revenue from advertisers, other technologies have no such agenda.

A study found that a strong nifio in 1997-98 helped America's economy grow by 15 billion, partly because of better agricultural harvest, farmers in the midwest gained from extra rain.

Agricultural harvests in rich countries fall.

In my hometown, there is always a harvest supper for the farmers after all the wheat has been cut.

It enables small-scale farmers to harvest 175 pounds of green vegetables per hour—a huge improvement over harvesting just a few dozen pounds by hand—suddenly making it possible for the little guys to compete with large farms of California.

Long before most of us even noticed what we now call "the environment," Buckminster Fuller said, "Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting."

When harvest came around, he was already selling herbs, vegetables and cotton in the market which people from the towns met regularly.

While the effect of cows milk harvested at different time has not been tested on humans up to now, taking melatonin drugs has been suggested to those who are struggling to fall asleep at night.