misharvest

Noun

misharvest (countable and uncountable, plural misharvests)

1. A poor harvest; a crop failure.
   • The use of the profit criterion leads thus to the ridiculous conclusion that a misharvest is better than an abundant crop.1983, Gerald M. Meier, Pricing Policy for Development Management, page 242
   • 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).1995, J. B. Schiere, Cattle, Straw and System Control, page 66

Verb

IPA/mɪsˈhɑː(ɹ)vɪst/

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.
   • 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...1989, University of Peradeniya. Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture. Congress, Tropical Agricultural Research, page 137
   • 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.2005 ·, Sahelian Pathways: Climate and Society in Central and South Mali