page_title: Combine harvester
hierarchical_section_title: Combine harvester
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: koeris using harvester English: Combine harvester Claas Lexion 570
context_page_description: A combine harvester, also called a combine, is a machine that harvests crops. Its name comes from doing three separate parts of harvesting crops at once:
  reaping: cutting and collecting crops when they are ready for harvesting,
  threshing: separating the parts of a crop that can be eaten by people from the parts that can't, and
  winnowing: removing the already separated parts of the crop that can't be eaten by people, the chaff, while keeping the part that can be eaten, the grain.
  Far fewer people work in farming as a result of the combine harvester.
context_section_description: A combine harvester, also called a combine, is a machine that harvests crops. Its name comes from doing three separate parts of harvesting crops at once:
  reaping: cutting and collecting crops when they are ready for harvesting,
  threshing: separating the parts of a crop that can be eaten by people from the parts that can't, and
  winnowing: removing the already separated parts of the crop that can't be eaten by people, the chaff, while keeping the part that can be eaten, the grain.
  Far fewer people work in farming as a result of the combine harvester.
caption: Harvesting oats in a Claas lexion 570 combine with enclosed, air-conditioned cab with rotary thresher and laser-guided hydraulic steering
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