Combine harvester
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The modern combine harvester, also called a combine, is a machine designed to harvest a variety of cultivated seeds. Combine harvesters are one of the most economically important labour-saving inventi
A Lely open-cab combine
A "Sunshine" harvester in the Henty, Australia, region
Case harvester, 20+ mule team
Case IH Axial-Flow combine
Threshing
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Threshing, or thrashing, is the process of loosening the edible part of grain from the straw to which it is attached. It is the step in grain preparation after reaping. Threshing does not remove the b
Combine harvester
…bedding and cattle feed. The name of the machine is derived from the fact that the harvester combined multiple separate harvesting operations – reaping, threshing or winnowing and gathering – into a single process around the start of the 20th century. A combine harvester still performs its functions according to…
A farmer in India threshes grain by hand.
An animal-powered thresher
A grain flail
Harvesters threshing in Akaroa, Canterbury, New Zealand