misharvest

plural misharvests

1. countableuncountableA poor harvest; a crop failure.

   Then there were misharvests. Potatoes rotted away and grains withered.

   2005, Antonius Holtmann, A Lost American Dream, page 16

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   The use of the profit criterion leads thus to the ridiculous conclusion that a misharvest is better than an abundant crop.

   1983, Gerald M. Meier, Pricing Policy for Development Management, page 242

   In those farming systems the use of livestock is handy or even important as a security against misharvest or other misfortune, but is not a precondition for cultivation (Bosman and Moll, 1995).

   1995, J. B. Schiere, Cattle, Straw and System Control, page 66

   Furthermore, the population in the Finnish countryside faced hardship in the aftermath of a serious misharvest and hunger catastrophe in the early 1860s.

   2012, P. Glasbergen, Co-operative Environmental Governance, page 78

present singular third person misharvests · participle present misharvesting · participle past misharvested · past misharvested

1. To harvest the wrong thing or at the wrong time.

   The Malian state offered the village a gift in July 1998 to try to reduce the effects of the famine caused by misharvesting at the beginning of that year.

   2005 ·, Sahelian Pathways: Climate and Society in Central and South Mali

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   Performance and accuracy covering harvesting width, adjustments for different crop heights and lodged plants, percentage of misharvesting, slippage and sinking of machine, header loss on field, quality of grain out put capacity of machine, clogging and case of its reduction, safety arrangements, power requirement, operating cost of machine and ease of operation.

   1989, University of Peradeniya. Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture. Congress, Tropical Agricultural Research, page 137

   The rate of misharvesting in which the robot harvested other fruits which did not adjoin the targeted fruit was 12% when there were no adjoining fruits, and 11% if adjoining fruits were in front of or beside the targeted fruit.

   2007, S. Yamamoto, S. Hayashi, H. Yoshida, K. Kobayashi, K. Shigematsu, “Development of an end effector for a strawberry-harvesting robot”, in Proceedings of the International Symposium on High Technology for Greenhouse System Management: Greensys2007, page 567