Possible Clues:

• Ingathering of crops
• Runners coming about five - time to yield
• Crops gathered in
• Perhaps outcrop of underwear at last
• Collected crops, first removed from landing-stages ahead of time
• Privileged few entertaining first of representatives, little time for gathering
• Season's yield
• Produce mostly stiff undergarment
• Gather in
• Hard to starve, having threshed this?