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HARVEST QUALITY [14 records]

Record 1 2025-12-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Plant and Crop Production
OBS

Tasks : Divide fresh harvested produce into marketable lots and non-marketable lots; Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market; Hand harvesting vegetables; Pack fruits and vegetables; Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops; Seed cutting; Weeding; Harvest crops [and] Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
OBS

Tâches [...] Diviser les produits frais récoltés en lots commercialisables et en lots non commercialisables; Effectuer le classement des légumes et des fruits selon leur taille, leur forme, leur couleur et leur volume afin d'obtenir un prix élevé sur le marché; Nettoyage de serre; Récolte manuelle de légumes; Récolter les semis; Emballer des fruits et légumes; Semer, cultiver et irriguer les produits agricoles; Trier des fruits et légumes; Désherbage; Nettoyer la zone de travail Récolter les produits agricoles; Charger, décharger et transporter les caisses, les provisions, les produits agricoles, le bétail et la volaille; Conduire et entretenir le matériel et les machines agricoles; Nettoyer les étables, les granges, les basses-cours et les enclos; [et] Examiner la qualité du produit et son aptitude à être commercialisé.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Nombramiento de cargos (Generalidades)
  • Producción vegetal
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Record 2 2023-05-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Federal Government Programs (Canadian)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
OBS

The Shellfish Water Classification Program provides recommendations for the classification of shellfish harvest areas based on sanitary water quality monitoring.

Key term(s)
  • Shellfish Water Classification Programme

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
OBS

Le Programme de classification des eaux coquillières fournit des recommandations pour la classification des secteurs coquilliers en fonction de la surveillance de la qualité bactériologique de l'eau.

Spanish

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Record 3 2021-12-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant and Crop Production
CONT

While good agronomic practices can maximize canola yields and returns throughout the growing season, proper harvest management is essential to realizing those yields. Seed and quality losses caused by untimely harvesting, inappropriate harvesting techniques, improper handling, or a combination of these practices, can all result in reduced crop yield, value or both.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
CONT

Gestion de la récolte. Récolter en conditions sèches et éviter de récolter en période de gel pour éviter les chocs thermiques.

Spanish

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Record 4 2016-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Harvesting Equipment (Agriculture)
CONT

1190 Mower Conditioner. From cutting and conditioning to windrowing or swathing, the 1190 does the kind of job that maintains top quality in your hay crops. It is designed and built to handle your heaviest crop and to get you in and out of the field faster so that you can harvest your crops when they are at peak nutritional value.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Machines de récolte (Agriculture)
CONT

Faucheuse-conditionneuse 1190. Que ce soit pour faucher, conditionner ou andainer, la 1190 effectuera un travail qui permettra de maintenir une qualité supérieure de votre récolte de fourrage. Elle est conçue et construite pour couper les récoltes les plus épaisses et pour que cette coupe soit faite le plus rapidement possible de façon que vous puissiez récolter votre fourrage pendant que sa valeur nutritive est la meilleure.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Máquinas para la cosecha (Agricultura)
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Record 5 2013-06-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Zoology
  • Hunting and Sport Fishing
  • Aboriginal Law
CONT

Wildlife harvesting.... Wildlife is harvested for many different purposes. Sport hunting usually takes a sample of the population during a restricted season and often with a restriction placed on the sex and age of the harvest. Harvesting for sport is a complex activity whose product is as much a quality experience as it is meat or trophies. On the other hand the purpose of commercial hunting for food is simply to harvest a product such as meat and skins.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Zoologie
  • Chasse et pêche sportive
  • Droit autochtone

Spanish

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Record 6 2012-06-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Administration (Indigenous Peoples)
  • Silviculture
DEF

The management of forest resources to ensure the maintenance of quality and diversity, including the long-term optimum productivity of those resources, and to ensure a sustainable harvest and its efficient utilization.

OBS

conservation: of natural renewable resources - e.g. soil, water, wildlife, forests - their continuing protection and management in accordance with principles that assure their optimum economic and social enjoyment.

OBS

forest conservation: term and definition taken from the Comprehensive Dene / Metis Land Claim Agreement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration (Peuples Autochtones)
  • Sylviculture
DEF

Gestion de ressources forestières en vue de maintenir la qualité et la diversité de ces ressources, y compris leur productivité optimale à long terme, et d'assurer le caractère durable des récoltes et leur utilisation rationnelle.

OBS

conservation de forêts : terme et définition relevés dans l'Entente sur la revendication territoriale globale - Dénés et Métis du Sahtu.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Administración (Pueblos indígenas)
  • Silvicultura
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Record 7 2011-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Grain Growing
CONT

Harvest Quality. Describes the quality of Canadian cereal grains, oilseeds and pulse crops.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Culture des céréales
CONT

Qualité de la récolte. Décrit la qualité des céréales, oléagineux et légumineuses canadiens.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cultivo de cereales
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Record 8 2010-05-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Grain Growing
CONT

Preharvest sprouting(PHS) is a phenomenon whereby seeds germinate while still attached to the mother plant. The occurrence of PHS in hexaploid wheat(Triticum aestivum L.) can drastically lower grain quality resulting in reduced prices for farmers. Wheat is susceptible to PHS anytime cool wet weather persists near harvest maturity, making it a problem in nearly all wheat growing regions worldwide. The main factor contributing to PHS susceptibility is the low level of seed dormancy encountered in modern cultivated varieties.

OBS

Of cereals in the field.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Culture des céréales
CONT

La germination sur pied. Des conditions humides, juste avant la récolte du blé, peuvent faire démarrer la germination des graines alors qu'elles se trouvent encore dans les épis. Des enzymes, en particulier des amylases, commencent à transformer l'amidon en sucre, nécessaire au développement de l'embryon. La germination sur pied peut avoir des effets néfastes sur la panification, et même un lot apparemment non germé peut être affecté.

OBS

Des céréales avant la récolte.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cultivo de cereales
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Record 9 2010-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weather Stations and Meteorological Instruments and Equipment
  • Pest Control Equipment
CONT

The second scourge of the weather is hail. This has, it is true, a more localised effect but the havoc that it brings is considerable in the small area that it sweeps. The grapes which have been split by hailstones lose their juice which in turn causes rot to set in, which lowers the quality of the already greatly reduced harvest. Certain vineyard areas have installed anti-hail guns but it must be admitted that their success is far from complete.

CONT

Frost is a risk well known to local orchardists, but the sudden hail storms which occur regularly between September and January constitute a particularly selective threat to the young fruit crop. ... alternative means were sought to combat hail. One such device was the ’hail gun’, originating in France and first introduced into an Ardmona orchard in time for the 1986-7 season. Certainly not a recent invention and lacking scientific support for its efficacy, the hail gun has gained a strong following among orchardists. Costing about $30,000 each, hail guns are electronically operated and powered by exploding acetylene; the benefits were demonstrated, to the satisfaction of some, during a damaging storm in 1987. Their precise mode of action remains uncertain.

Key term(s)
  • antihail gun

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations, instruments et équipements météorologiques
  • Matériel de protection des végétaux
CONT

De tout temps les agriculteurs ont tenté de lutter contre la grêle, mais tous les essais de lutte contre ce phénomène se sont jusqu'à présent révélés vains. Parmi les procédés les plus anciennement utilisés figure le canon paragrêle, lançant des charges explosives dans les nuages réputés grêligènes. L'inefficacité de ce canon, conçu sans bases scientifiques, est maintenant reconnue par tous les experts.

OBS

grêlifuge : Se dit des appareils, engins (canons) ou pièces d'artifice (fusées), employés pour lutter contre la grêle.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estaciones, instrumentos y equipos meteorológicos
  • Equipo para la lucha antiparasitaria
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Record 10 2008-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Forestry Operations
DEF

A partial harvest removing only the most valuable tree species, or trees of desirable size and quality, without regard for the condition of the residual stand.

Key term(s)
  • high-grading
  • highgrading

French

Domaine(s)
  • Exploitation forestière
DEF

Récolte partielle qui consiste à extraire uniquement les essences de plus grande valeur ou les arbres présentant les dimensions et la qualité souhaitées, sans tenir compte de l'état du peuplement résiduel.

Spanish

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Record 11 2008-01-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant and Crop Production
  • Agricultural Economics
CONT

The Harvest Survey is a survey of Canadian grain quality. The Canadian Grain Commission conducts it each fall. Information from the survey reaches marketers, buyers and processors around the world. It tells millers, bakers, brewers and food manufacturers how this year's crop will perform in processing. This helps make sales and keeps buyers coming back.

OBS

harvest survey: Term used at the Canadian Grain Commission.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
  • Économie agricole
CONT

L'Enquête sur la récolte est une enquête sur la qualité du grain canadien. La Commission canadienne des grains mène cette enquête chaque automne. Les données obtenues de l'enquête sont diffusées aux marchands, acheteurs et transformateurs du monde entier. L'enquête informe les meuniers, boulangers, brasseurs et fabricants de produits alimentaires de l'aptitude technologique de la récolte de cette année. Ces données aident à vendre notre grain et font revenir nos clients

OBS

Terme en usage à la Commission canadienne des grains.

Spanish

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Record 12 2006-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Harvesting Techniques
  • Silviculture
DEF

A tree harvesting method in which certain trees are selected for harvest and others are left on the site for erosion control, to provide wildlife habitat, for re-vegetation, to maintain biodiversity and to protect water quality.

CONT

The advantage of the selection method is that it is often considered to be less visually offensive than clear-cuts. Therefore, selective harvesting is frequently favored in areas where recreation or scenic values are important. Selective cuts may also be used to harvest timber from sensitive areas such as steep slopes or buffer strips where it is desirable to maintain permanent tree cover.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques de récolte
  • Sylviculture
DEF

Méthode de récolte des arbres par laquelle certains arbres à récolter sont sélectionnés et les autre sont laissés sur pied pour lutter contre l'érosion, pour assurer un habitat pour la faune, aux fins de la revégétation, pour maintenir la biodiversité et pour protéger la qualité de l'eau.

CONT

Une récolte sélective bien faite laisse derrière elle une forêt en bonne santé pour le prochain cycle de récolte.

Spanish

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Record 13 1997-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Crop Conservation and Storage
  • Crop Protection
CONT

Field heat removal from strawberry has been important this year to maintain post harvest quality.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conservation des récoltes
  • Protection des végétaux

Spanish

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Record 14 1992-06-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flowers and Ornamentals (Horticulture)
DEF

Cultivated sod planted on agricultural land and grown specifically for sod purposes. Sod is carefully mowed and otherwise maintained from planting to harvest so as to maintain reasonable quality and uniformity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Floriculture

Spanish

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