When does an agricultural year begin and end?

Question

Like which month does it start and end..

Answer 1

SAm that depends on if your talking tax year crop year and what part of the world. My tax year begins in Jan1 ends Dec 31. Corporate farms can move their year ends more in line with the crop cycle. Most North American crops are harvested in the fall. Sept Oct. If you are more specific you could get a more detailed answer.

Answer 2

Depends on what your planting, but generally things are planted in the spring & harvested in the fall.   IE: Wheat & Corn

Answer 3

a season is different then a year, and an agricultural season would be all year long from the start of planning to the end of tax year?  does that make sense I think a lot of them here already explained this to you pretty good

Answer 4

Our agriculture year ends December 31 and begins on January 1, because that's the tax year.  My father always told us that farming was from can see to can't see 365 days a year.  We had a mixed corp and livestock farm.  Corn, soybeans, and wheat rotated each year.  We raised beef cattle, hogs, and sheep, and had a couple of milk cows and several chickens for the family's use.  There was no down time on the farm. Spring, Summer, and Fall were busy times with the crops, the livestock pretty well making it on their own on pasture, and we had to fill the pig feeders about once a week.  Chickens had to be fed and eggs gathered daily and the milk cows milked every day morning and night. The milk cows were how you started your day and ended it.  I soon learned that there were a few holes in that can see to can't ideal, there were lights in the barn and on the tractors and combine harvester.  On the plus side, my father never allowed anyone to work on Sunday, with the exception of the milk cows and chickens.  You might think that Winter would be down time on the farm, but you would be wrong.  All of the livestock had to be fed daily with there not being any pasture. And the hardest part, making sure they all had water available to them.  On our farm that meant chopping holes in the ice on the ponds every day, the coldest job on the farm.  Then there were always fences to be repaired and work cleaning and repairing the barns. So the farming year really doesn't have a beginning and end except that Uncle Sam needs to get his cut.

Answer 5

buy you a farmers almanac it has the growing seasons for every crop you can think of

Answer 6

spring and fall

march and october

Answer 7

You probably mean how long it is in terms of months, i.e., twelve months as opposed to an irregular number of full moons.

Answer 8

This entirely depends on what crop you are talking about, and what location.

Please remember the word "agriculture" covers things like salmon farming, citrus crops, wheat, cattle, dairy cows, raising snails and frogs for specialty markets, cut flowers....just about everything.

So in effect there is no end.  Agriculture of one sort or another is year around.  

I raise meat goats, and meat rabbits.  I stop raising rabbits in the summer, when it's hottest, since they do not like heat.  But that's when crops around me like wheat, sugar beets, and alfalfa are really growing.

During the winter when I'm often very busy with my animals, crop/dirt farmers around me are not too busy.  There is nothing growing on the fields.  Yet they may be pulling truck and tractor (hundreds in some cases) in and doing maintenance and repaires on them.

Of course when the year begins and ends not only depends on what crop farmers are growing, but what plant zone they live in.  

In some tropical areas, they have plants that produce year around...their season NEVER ends.  

Besides, when you are a farmer, the work goes on year around, even if you are not actively, harvesting, planting crops, or birthing animals.  There is always something that needs to be done.

Dairy farming (milk) would be one of the most labor intensive agricultural fields there is.  They don't have a slow season, or a time when they don't need to harvest "crop."  Dairy cows must be milked every day, two or three times a day, not to mention all the other work that goes along with them.

By the way....my seed catalogs just started to arive yesterday.  So while I'm not growing a dirt crop right now, we are planning who, what, why, where, and how things are going to be planted next year. My does (goats) are also in the middle of their second kidding of the year.  "Agriculture" is year around on my farm, and many, many other farms.

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years