posted 10 years ago
Based on some Googling on this same question as to clover, I didn't find anything in scale between hand-picking individual clover flower heads and running a specialized combine through a field of the stuff (the magic words seem to be "harvested with a combine using a belt pick-up header" which is so much agribusiness babble to me -- in my head it parses to "a big piece of farm equipment with a belt thingy to pick up the flowers before it shakes the heck out of them to collect the seed". Real farmers are probably laughing now.