Talk:Harvest
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- In Western Canada, the annual wheat harvest starts in late August or early September and farmers must balance readiness of the wheat versus the time before the first hard frost in the fall.
- In the era before mechanization the difficulty of providing for the increased volume of labour needed for the harvest was an perennial concern. In many agricultural areas school holidays were set to allow the children to work on their parents' farms. In Canada, immigration was timed to have most new arrivals land in the fall. Most dramatic were the harvest excursions, which saw thousands of labourers voyage to Western Canada each year. The development of the combine harvester that could bring in many crops mechanically solved many of these problems. Even today, harvesting of some labour-intensive crops, like fruits, sees significant labour shortages. It is not uncommon for the farms of southern Ontario to import labour from Mexico and other parts of Latin America.
Can be reincorporated in an expanded version of this article. Tsavage 05:24, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
