Sentence examples for dry harvest from inspiring English sources
Farmers want rain in the spring and a nice dry harvest.
Since Lithuania was heavily wooded and its lands were often impassable, its interior was most approachable along its rivers when frozen and during the short dry harvest season in late summer.
In 1999, the small rains nearly failed and the big rains began late and went on into the normally dry harvest months, September–November.
The human survey has shown that DNA methylation at metastable epialleles in lymphocytes and hair follicle cells of infants conceived during the rainy ("hungry") season is significantly different from that of infants conceived in the dry ("harvest") season, providing first evidences of a lasting and systemic effect of periconceptional environment on human epigenotype.
A dry harvest period has been welcome, but overall yields are more or less the same as the near normal last year for paddy, and a modest increase for maize.
Ms. DeGrenier's farm here — one of eight scattered along the Cranberry Trail, a web of bog-flanked roads near the arm of Cape Cod — specializes in dry harvesting, a method of picking berries that dispenses with flooding the bogs.
By the Fall, this same acre of corn will yield ∼4 5 metric tons of dry harvested corn.
To dry-harvest, Ms. DeGrenier said, a farmer drives a mechanical harvester that gently combs the berries from the vines and then trundles them up a conveyor belt and into a burlap bag.
Of the three major varieties grown in Massachusetts, the indigenous heritage berries, Howes and Early Black, are the favored dry-harvest fruit for the few farms that use that method.
Technology – Research and diagram one of the "strange menagerie of machinery" used in cranberry bogs in Massachusetts, particularly the "devices that resemble giant lawn mowers" that help them dry-harvest the berries or the "four-wheeled paddle contraptions" that help them cross flooded bogs.
American Cranberry dry-harvests its berries instead of flooding the bogs and scooping up the floating fruit, so the berries do not spoil as readily.
