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Harvesting is not only a necessity, but also a traditional agricultural economic activity that, although it has been mechanized, remains in the memory of the generations that work the fields.
It is not surprising, then, that Catalonia is a land rich in the celebration of harvest festivals, such as the Festa del Segar i el Batre de Santa Eulàlia de Riuprimer, whose images from the latest edition we can see in this report in Las Photos de The Readers of La Vanguardia.
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.
The Festa del Mowing and Batre de Santa Eulàlia de Riuprimer is held in the field below the Era del Soler. It is known that the last time they fought in this town in the Osona region was in the mid-sixties of the last century, in Les Comunes.
It was from 1997 when the activity of beating was recovered as a summer party that has survived to this day, when we can see the traditional haystacks again.
