misharvest

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ harvest

Pronunciation

• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪsˌhɑː(ɹ)vɪst/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /mɪsˈhɑː(ɹ)vɪst/

Noun

misharvest (countable and uncountable, plural misharvests)

1. A poor harvest; a crop failure.
   • 1983, Gerald M. Meier, Pricing Policy for Development Management, page 242:

     The use of the profit criterion leads thus to the ridiculous conclusion that a misharvest is better than an abundant crop.

   • 1995, J. B. Schiere, Cattle, Straw and System Control, page 66:

     In those farming systems the use of livestock is handy or even important as a security against misharvest or other misfortune, but is not a precondition for cultivation (Bosman and Moll, 1995).

   • 2005, Antonius Holtmann, A Lost American Dream, page 16:

     Then there were misharvests. Potatoes rotted away and grains withered.

   • 2012, P. Glasbergen, Co-operative Environmental Governance, page 78:

     Furthermore, the population in the Finnish countryside faced hardship in the aftermath of a serious misharvest and hunger catastrophe in the early 1860s.

Verb

misharvest (third-person singular simple present misharvests, present participle misharvesting, simple past and past participle misharvested)

1. To harvest the wrong thing or at the wrong time.
   • 1989, University of Peradeniya. Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture. Congress, Tropical Agricultural Research, page 137:

     Performance and accuracy covering harvesting width, adjustments for different crop heights and lodged plants, percentage of misharvesting, slippage and sinking of machine, header loss on field, quality of grain out put capacity of machine, clogging and case of its reduction, safety arrangements, power requirement, operating cost of machine and ease of operation.

   • 2005 ·, Sahelian Pathways: Climate and Society in Central and South Mali:

     The Malian state offered the village a gift in July 1998 to try to reduce the effects of the famine caused by misharvesting at the beginning of that year.

   • 2007, S. Yamamoto, S. Hayashi, H. Yoshida, K. Kobayashi, K. Shigematsu, “Development of an end effector for a strawberry-harvesting robot”, in Proceedings of the International Symposium on High Technology for Greenhouse System Management: Greensys2007, page 567:

     The rate of misharvesting in which the robot harvested other fruits which did not adjoin the targeted fruit was 12% when there were no adjoining fruits, and 11% if adjoining fruits were in front of or beside the targeted fruit.