1.   At midday Monday back in Kansas, combines and trucks and the crews that run them were busily harvesting fields scattered across a broad wedge of southern Kansas.

2.   Because the artichokes on each plant mature at different rates, the fields are harvested weekly.

3.   Because the artichokes on each plant mature at different rates, each field is harvested once a week.

4.   But because a cane field can be harvested as many as four times with only one planting, destroying acres of cane would have had a long-term effect.

5.   Corn prices rose as traders bet planting delays caused by rain will leave little corn available in September, when the first fields are usually harvested.

6.   In Kentucky and Tennessee, farmers of burley tobacco will harvest their fields this month and next.

7.   Key to the measures is testing for the fungus before each field is harvested.

8.   To harvest a field, one crew is sent out to cut the ripe fruit.

9.   In the fall, the roads are filled with mammoth, slow-moving combines that farmers use to harvest their fields.

10.   So the people of Ghajar asked the Israelis to take over the rest of their village, allowing them to harvest their fields which Israel had occupied.