Knowing when to harvest the agave's heart--the 50-to-80-pound mass from which juices are extracted--is an art.
The Japanese say that they are hunting whales off Antarctica in order to ascertain when there will be enough to harvest for profit.
Additionally, disease and weather data is also frequently shared via mobile phones, alerting farmers when to spray pesticides or harvest crops.
Profitable before the 1999 agreement, it has slipped into the red every year since, even in 2002, the only year when it was able to harvest its promised allocation of trees.
When it's time to harvest the rows of soybeans and corn, he makes the same trip three to four times weekly.
An experiment in rural Bangladesh provided men with the bus fare to Dhaka at the beginning of the lean season, the period between planting and the next harvest when there is little to do except sit around.
In years when the market is falling, opportunities to harvest losses are rich.
And unlike most of their East Coast counterparts--who commonly dredge submerged shellfish beds from boats--Puget Sound oyster growers typically seed beds in tidal shelves right off the beaches, and walk out to tend them and harvest when the tide is down.
These Victorian legacies include: reliance on the generalist class teacher rather than specialist subject teachers, lower per pupil funding than in secondary schools, lower status for primary school teachers, a formal education starting age of five, and long summer holidays which are left over from the days when children were needed to bring in the harvest.
The "Shockers" mascot is short for "Wheatshockers" and recalls when students shocked wheat to earn money during the harvest season, according to the school's web site.
That's supposed to be when everybody is working on -- out on the farm and bringing in harvest.
Both men occasionally find odd jobs when locals need men to carry shipments from one place to another or farmers need workers to harvest olives.
The term became Wall Street lingo when analysts noticed that investors tend to sell small stocks at the end of a year to harvest tax losses then buy the stocks up again in January.
After seeing health-food stores hawk pricey dried Japanese leaves when French beaches were strewn with it, she created a French company, Globe Export SAS, to harvest and sell it.
The supply chain starts with local farmers, who harvest the leaves in August, when they are richest in artemisinin, and sell then to a handful of companies, mainly Chinese, which extract the chemical and change it into one of the more active derivatives.
When the Tories introduced and then extended voting rights for expatriates in the 1980s, cynics assumed they were hoping to harvest thousands of votes from overseas.
Most loggers harvest when the land is frozen, but a run of mild winters has melted the logging roads and made it impossible to harvest the wood without scarring the land which, in turn, gives environmentalists more cause for complaint.
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