Exempel på thresh

• Farmers reported that the need to thresh soybean at the homestead made it a more difficult legume crop to bury.

• Also, heaping panicles at a common threshing point for days before threshing may result in the shedding and loss of grains.

• The kernel is loosely covered and it can be easily threshed.

• The use of threshing machines has always fluctuated in tandem with the ability of farmers to access liquid cash.

• Harvesting and threshing are carried out as one activity, mostly on a contract basis, with the contractors receiving 20% of the output.

• Spikes rather than seeds were used because some accessions had glumes that adhered tightly and could not be threshed.

• Farmers were also asked the length of time they kept panicles in the field before threshing and how they were kept.

• Plants were threshed manually when the moisture content in pods reached 12% and assessments of seed yield were attained.

• With the exception of threshing residues of soybean, values were lower at maturity than at flowering.

• Quantities of cereals, pulses, and residues produced on each plot were weighed after threshing and winnowing at the end of the season.

• A class of itinerants emerged who travelled through the countryside to thresh cereals by machine.

• The threshing coefficient of millet panicles, defined as the ratio of grain to panicle dry weight, was deter mined.

• The harvested rice crop was sun-dried for 3+4 d and threshed.

• Seeds obtained after threshing had a high germination rate and required less space for storage.

• However, the values for excess cations in threshing residues differed significantly between species.