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Combine harvester at work

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Combine harvester at work

A combine harvester cuts ripe wheat, west of Oxford in North Canterbury. The combine harvester has the functions of a header-harvester and the tractor that powers it in one machine. It cuts the heads of wheat, which pass to a threshing apparatus that removes and cleans the grains.

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James Watson, Farm mechanisation – Vehicles, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18401/combine-harvester-at-work (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by James Watson, published 1 March 2009.