Sentences with phrase «happen at harvest»

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Helen Bull, partnership and fundraising officer, said: «Probably what's happened is that it is harvest time and lots of people clean out their cupboards and donate items that they have never used and don't really look at them.

Our cabbage did a funny thing a week or so ago, which is that just about when they were ready to harvest, the roots filled up with a quick and heavy rainfall, thereby pushing pressure into the heads of the cabbages and causing them to burst (at least, that's what I have sussed out happened based on some reading I did about it).

To make that happen, we need freezer space so that local growers can harvest their crop, store it at the market, and then reap their profits long after the harvest season is over.»

The speculator uses his knowledge of the market, and of economic and statistical analysis, to try to arrive at a better guess than the farmer may be able to make, and thus is able to offer a price that the farmer will consider an attractive alternative to waiting to sell at whatever price happens to prevail in the market at harvest time.