5 Tips for a Successful Harvest - E4 Crop Intelligence (2024)

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What makes a successful harvest? ›

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Check over the quality of your crop and standability. Adjust harvest field order to allow the best use of time and avoid as much harvest loss as possible. Check for areas of high disease infection, poor stalk integrity, or probability of ear loss and move ahead in harvest order.

The agricultural cycle is the annual cycle of activities related to the growth and harvest of a crop (plant). These activities include loosening the soil, seeding, special watering, moving plants when they grow bigger, and harvesting, among others. Without these activities, a crop cannot be grown.

For many crops, farmers will use a combine to easily pick and separate their crops from the stalk. However, certain plants require handpicking and take much more time to harvest.

A harvest strategy is a calculated decision to minimize all types of spending on a specific product to maximize profitability, despite a potential decline in market share. A harvesting strategy can be developed for product or business lines and serves as an “exit” plan should a product become outdated.

The four steps of harvesting are reaping, threshing, cleaning, and transporting. Utilizing cutting-edge technology to harvest crops is crucial since it decreases grain waste and improves grain quality and quantity. Reaping is the act of harvesting grain or pulses by cutting them with a scythe, sickle, or reaper.

Simply stated, the Law of the Harvest says that in life, we will reap what we sow; we will reap more than we sow; and we will reap later than we sow. Good choices, like seeds, ultimately bring forth good fruit as a reward. Bad choices, like bad seeds, ultimately bring bad fruit as a consequence.

How long does a harvest take? ›

Generally, harvest runs from as early as mid-September to as late as the end of November. For each farmer, how long harvest takes depends on how many acres they farm, how many people they have helping out, the size of their equipment and how many combines, tractors and semis they have running.

Crops need optimum amounts of nutrition (manure), sunlight and water for a good yield. In India most of the farmers are dependent on monsoons for irrigation. Weeds reduce the harvest. Labourers who work on fields need not be highly educated.

Frequent watering and feeding are some of the most important parts of encouraging a big harvest. Keep watering and feeding even when your plants start to be ready to harvest. Plants like tomatoes and beans need lots of water and nutrients. This will increase crop quality and yield.

The harvest principle says, “You reap what you sow.” The basic idea is that, if the conditions are right, if there's enough sun, rain and nutrients, a seed planted will eventually produce rewards, fruit. This principle reminds us that the kind of fruit, the rewards produced, are directly linked to the seeds planted.