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The mowing begins with poor yield forecasts. No clouds and heat. With a misery of cereals, one of the worst harvests in our area, in Manlleu (Osona).
As we can see in the images in Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia, the machines are now in charge of the harvest, while, in the past, it was a job for the harvesters.
In addition to the family work groups, at harvest time gangs of harvesters made up of four, six, eight or more sickles would meet, led by a foreman.
They used to close the group of women, young or old reapers who collected and tied the sheaves in the traditional packages and piles.
In Osona, the fields of barley stand out, a cereal of great importance, both for animals and for humans.
