Harvest

Harvest, medieval image

To harvest means to collect what has been planted and grown in the ground. It is usually done by farmers. They can do this by picking crops. Crop failure (also known as harvest failure) is a loss or reduced crop yield due to plants being damaged, killed, or destroyed. Sometimes it brings famine.

"Harvest" can also mean to collect other things than plants such as cultivated bivalves including oysters, scallops, and other animals.

Harvest Media

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  Harvesting in Volgograd Oblast, State farm

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  Straw in a field in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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  Total estimated agricultural production losses from disasters (1991–2023).

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  Some people use their own animals for harvesting their crops

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  Harvesting maize field in Rantasalmi, South Savo, Finland

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  Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Harvesters, 1565

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  Rye harvest on Gotland, Sweden, 1900–1910.

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  Harvesting in Poland, 1938 (Agfacolor).

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  Harvesting rice in Alginet, Land of Valencia, 1953.

• Sugar beet harvester. Baden-Württemberg, Germany.