harvesters

noun

plural of harvester
as in farmers

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  1. farmers
  2. growers
  3. reapers
  4. cultivators
  5. planters
  6. tillers
  7. agronomists
  8. agriculturists
Noun
  • Better monitoring tools can help farmers identify disease threats earlier and avoid expensive eradication campaigns.
    — Robert Kelly, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • This summer, farmers in parts of Europe reported their livestock being infected, including cattle.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of farmers
Noun
  • Local growers supply everything from beef and lamb to mushrooms, honey, cheese and vegetables.
    — Derek James, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Likewise, regenerative agriculture, which outlaws increasingly expensive synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, can help growers keep costs down.
    — Bella Webb, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of growers
Noun
  • At the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, American revolvers and reapers with swappable parts stunned international observers.
    — Guru Madhavan, IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2026
  • The combine/reaping machine cutting mechanism (1833) American inventor Obed Hussey patented one of the earliest practical mechanical reapers in 1833.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
Definition of reapers
Noun
  • Cut, trim and prune with loppers, shears, snips and more, dig and weed with scoops, trowels, weeders and more and take and cultivate with cultivators and rakes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • This scientific understanding is enabling cultivators to engineer diverse, less pungent strains and driving innovation in discreet, low-odor products like edibles and vapes.
    — Peter Su, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of cultivators
Noun
  • Tender Fuchsias Most fuchsias are tender hybrids that tolerate USDA Hardiness Zone 9 and warmer, are used as an annual in hanging planters or containers, and need to be brought indoors for winter.
    — Sarah Everett, The Spruce, 7 Oct. 2026
  • My favorite way to style them is to add them to seasonal planters alongside other fall favorites such as sweet alyssum, ornamental grasses, ornamental kale, or mums, and gourds (which last longer than pumpkins in the heat).
    — Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of planters
Noun
  • All electric tillers use front-line tillers, meaning the tines are placed in front of the wheels and pull the tiller forward.
    — BestReviews, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2026
  • America has largely been out of tune regarding that refrain, but its greatest defenders of democracy and its tillers for a better world have not.
    — Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2025
Definition of tillers
Noun
  • Their wider ecosystem includes field workers, seasonal workers, input suppliers, agronomists, university researchers, local traders and ginners.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Elsewhere in Kigali, a group of young agronomists are training farmers to adopt technologies such as hydroponics to maximize productivity, using water instead of soil.
    — Evelyne Musambi, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
Definition of agronomists
Noun
  • Dressing gardens with compost helps improve soil structure and fertility, supports sustainable gardening practices, keeps ecosystems in balance and can reduce greenhouse gases, agriculturists tell us.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • Despite that, effective control over such management priorities has long rested with agriculturalists and hunters, whose interests are not always shared by the vast majority of Coloradans.
    — DP Opinion, Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2026
Definition of agriculturists
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