Harvesting season is crucial for a farmer and so is the process of harvesting. Harvesting needs be handled very carefully as there is always a risk of grain loss during cutting and threshing the crops manually. Different types of grain crops such as rice, wheat, barley, rye, and soybean need to be harvested very carefully to get the edible grains. The edible parts of these crops is used as grains which is further used to make products like bread, cereal etc. to feed the population around the world. Once the seeds or the edible part is separated from the chaff or stalks, the stalk needs to be discarded as it is inedible. In manual harvesting process which is quite long and hectic farmers first, have to cut down the crop with a long-handled cutting tool known as a scythe and next they have to separate the inedible chaff from edible grain by beating the stalks with hands in the process known as threshing. Lastly to get the final edible grain, the remaining debris is cleaned from the seeds for mill use. The whole process takes several days to weeks from the cutting to finally getting edible grains. However, farmers nowadays use modern combine harvester machine or multi-crop harvester that cuts, thresh and separates grain, collecting them in the header of the machine very efficiently in one go without any wasting any. A combine harvester significantly reduces the chances of grain loss while the quality of the grains also remains good. Here we are going to mention the key advantages of using a combine harvester –
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