Similar advances with other crops have released people from hard and boring jobs for more creative work, whilst machines harvest crops more efficiently with less waste.

对于其它作物，相似的改进把人们从艰难又枯燥的工作中解放出来，可以做更多创造性的工作，同时机器收割庄稼的效率更高，浪费更少。

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Autumn is the ideal season for farmers worldwide to harvest crops.

对世界各地的农民来说，秋季是收割庄稼想季节。

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Right about now, I take a few minutes to harvest crops, put up several small businesses, collect rent, and hire Facebook friends to work at community halls.

就在刚才，我花几分钟时间收割了庄稼，建立了几家小企业，收了租，并且雇佣了几个Facebook的朋友在我的社区大厅里工作——这是因为上个月，我加入了“城市小镇”（CityVille）游戏的玩家大军。

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The Chavez family joined thousands of other farm workers who traveled around the state of California to harvest crops for farm owners.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

They traveled from place to place to harvest grapes,lettuce, beets and many other crops.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

And with no money for seeds, and insects attacking her crops, the next harvest is at risk.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

Additionally, disease and weather data is also frequently shared via mobile phones, alerting farmers when to spray pesticides or harvest crops.

FORBES: The Untapped Potential of the Mobile Phone

But this device was once one of the most important tools in the world, used to cut grass for hay and harvest crops from fields.

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Sarah Pettitt, chairman of the Horticulture and Potato Board of the National Farmers' Union, said farmers were having to use "innovative and desperate measures" to harvest crops in frozen ground.

BBC: How are farmers coping with the snow?