Possible Clues:

• Harvesters
• Harvesting machines
• Scythe wielders
• Carolina __: superhot peppers
• Gatherers
• Farmers giving military personnel spare produce
• So they won't, by the sound of it (7)
• Crop workers
• They don't sound like so-and-sos
• They gather that they're not so-and-sos, it seems