Harvest

thumb|Harvesting in Volgograd Oblast, State farm thumb|Straw in a field in [[Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.]]

agricultural machine

thumb|A farmer in India threshes grain by hand. thumb|An animal-powered thresher Threshing, or thrashing, is the process of loosening the edible part of grain (or other crop) from the straw to which it is attached. It is the step in grain preparation after reaping. Threshing does not remove the bran from the grain.

thumb|Rice winnowing, Uttarakhand, [[India]] thumb|Winnowing in a village in Tamil Nadu, [[India]] upright|thumb|right|Use of winnowing forks by Agriculture in ancient Egypt|ancient Egyptian agriculturalists

agricultural site

harvest of grapes in order to produce wine

type of festive celebration

thumb|Typical 20th-century reaper, a tractor-drawn Deutz-Fahr|Fahr machine

activity of gathering mushrooms in the wild

Wildcrafting (also known as foraging, especially in North America) is the practice of harvesting plants from their natural, or 'wild' habitat, primarily for food or medicinal purposes. It applies to uncultivated plants wherever they may be found, which can include both wilderness areas and urban foraging. Ethical considerations are often involved, such as protecting endangered species, potential for depletion of commonly held resources, and in the context of private property, preventing theft of valuable plants, for example, ginseng.

robot in agriculture

thumb|right|The Gleaners by [[Jean-François Millet, 1857]]

thumb|MacDon Industries Ltd.|MacDon swather thumb|New Holland Haybine H8040 self-propelled swather

thumb|Wheat sheaves near King's Somborne, England arranged into a stook. thumb|Stooking maize in Kenya. A stook /stʊk/, shock, Aisle (North Somerset), Kiver (Cheshire/Staffordshire)(pronounced Kivver), or stack, (although the word stack more usually refers to larger amounts of cereal crops or hay stored in a barn or stackyard) is an arrangement by which bound sheaves of cut grain-stalks, complete with the grain, are placed with their butts on the ground, leaning together so as to keep the grain-heads off the ground during the period when left in the field. This is after the crop has been cut w

thumb|Drying and bagging of peanuts in [[Jiangxia District, Hubei, China]] In agriculture, postharvest handling is the stage of crop production immediately following harvest, including cooling, cleaning, sorting and packing. The instant a crop is removed from the ground, or separated from its parent plant, it begins to deteriorate. Postharvest treatment largely determines final quality, whether a crop is sold for fresh consumption, or used as an ingredient in a processed food product.

Ratooning is the agricultural practice of harvesting a monocot crop by cutting most of the above-ground portion but leaving the roots and the growing shoot apices intact so as to allow the plants to recover and produce a fresh crop in the next season. This practice is widely used in the cultivation of crops such as rice, sugarcane, banana, and pineapple. Ratoon crops cannot be perennially renewed, and may be harvested only for a few seasons, as a decline in yield tends to occur due to increased crowding, damage by pests and diseases, and decreasing soil fertility.

manual harvesting of fruit