Harvester may refer to:

Agriculture and forestry

Combine harvester The modern combine harvester, also called a combine, is a machine designed to harvest a variety of cultivated seeds. Combine harvesters are one of the most economically important labour-saving inventions, significantly reducing the fraction of ...

, a machine commonly used to harvest grain crops *

Forage harvester A forage harvesteralso known as a silage harvester, forager or chopperis a farm implement that harvests forage plants to make silage. Silage is grass, corn or hay, which has been chopped into small pieces, and compacted together in a storage silo ...

, a machine used to harvest forage *

Harvester (forestry) A harvester is a type of heavy forestry vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging operations for tree felling, felling, delimbing and log bucking, bucking trees. A forest harvester is typically employed together with a skidder#Grapple skidder ...

, a type of heavy vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging of trees *

International Harvester The International Harvester Company (often abbreviated IH or International) was an American manufacturer of agricultural and construction equipment, automobiles, commercial trucks, lawn and garden products, household equipment, and more. It wa ...

, a former agricultural machinery company

Information technology

* Harvester (web), a tool to download websites * Harvester (HCI), an open-source hyper-converged infrastructure started in 2020 by SUSE *

Bioinformatic Harvester The Bioinformatic Harvester was a bioinformatic meta search engine created by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and subsequently hosted and further developed by KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology for genes and protein-associated informa ...

, a bioinformatic meta search engine

Music

* Harvester (band) or Träd, Gräs, och Stenar, a Swedish progressive band * Harvester (American band), an American indie rock band * The Harvesters (band), a Swedish alternative country band

Movies and TV

* ''The Harvester'' (1927 film), an American silent comedy film * ''

The Harvester ''The Harvester'' is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Joseph Santley and written by Homer Croy, Robert Lee Johnson, Elizabeth Meehan and Gertrude Orr. It is based on the 1911 novel ''The Harvester'' by Gene Stratton-Porter, which had pre ...

'', a 1936 American comedy film * The Harvesters (Doctor Who), a 1968, ''Doctor Who'' adventure serial * ''The Harvesters'' (film), a 2018 film

Places

Burr Ridge, Illinois Burr Ridge (formerly Harvester) is a village in Cook and DuPage counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. Per the 2020 census, the population was 11,192. Geography Burr Ridge is located at (41.753030, -87.919998). According to the 2021 census ...

or Harvester * Harvester, Missouri, an unincorporated community in St. Charles County

Zoology

* '' Feniseca tarquinius'' or harvesters, a species of butterflies * '' Miletinae'' or harvesters, a subfamily of butterflies * ''

Opiliones The Opiliones (formerly Phalangida) are an Order (biology), order of arachnids, Common name, colloquially known as harvestmen, harvesters, harvest spiders, or daddy longlegs (see below). , over 6,650 species of harvestmen have been discovered w ...

'' or harvesters, an order of arachnids superficially similar to spiders * "Harvesters", a nickname used to refer to the antagonistic alien species featured in ''

Independence Day An independence day is an annual event memorialization, commemorating the anniversary of a nation's independence or Sovereign state, statehood, usually after ceasing to be a group or part of another nation or state, or after the end of a milit ...

'' and its sequel '' Independence Day: Resurgence''.

Other uses

Harvester (horse) Harvester (1881–1906) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from 1883 to 1884 he ran thirteen times and won five races. In 1884 he was involved in the second, and most recent dead heat in the history of ...

, winner of the 1884 Epsom Derby * ''The Harvesters'' (painting), a 1565 wood painting by Pieter Bruegel *

Harvester (restaurant) Harvester is a casual dining restaurant chain in the United Kingdom. The first, The George Inn, opened in 1983 in Morden, Morden, South London. The chain, set up by Courage Brewery to compete with Whitbread's Beefeater (restaurant), Beefeater rest ...

, a British restaurant chain * ''Harvester'' (video game), a 1996 computer adventure game * ''Harvesters'' (Ancher), a 1905 oil painting by Anna Ancher * HMS ''Harvester'' (H19), an H-class destroyer launched as HMS ''Handy'' in 1939 * Harvester, a fictional large vehicle in the 1965 novel ''Dune'' by Frank Herbert (see ''Dune'' terminology) and Dune games