Farming during the winter

The winter months are a time to prepare for the coming year by budgeting for and purchasing farm requirements such seeds and fertilizers.  The winter is coolor and leaves begin to change colors. September is when most grains and other spring-planted crops are harvested. This helps restore nutrients in the soil that the last crop used up. Farmers begin planted crops such as winter wheat. During the winter it gets really hard for the farmers to farm because the sun sets early, and you can't grow tomatoes or even most greens with such low light. One way to keep plants growing is to install a hoop house. This helps grow plants that are typically grown during the spring or summer time grow during the winter time. Vegetables are great to grow during the winter time. For example, Garlic, Spring Onion, Broad Beans, Peas, Winter Salads, Asparagus, and Onions. Farmers during the winter don't stop farming. The winter months are a time to prepare for the coming year by budgeting for and purchasing things like seed and fertilizer. Some crop farmers store their crops on-farm, and spend winter shipping grain from their farm to ethanol plants, feed mills, and river terminals, where hrain gets loaded onto barges and shipped far and wide. Many farmers work on farm equipment like tractores and planters in preparation for spring tillage and planting. It is in this time of year that many farmers also make the final decisions about what crops to plant on which fields. A lot goes into that final decision, including factors like what crop was in the field that previous year, what the relative profitability of various crops are, known disease pressure that might be in the soil on that particular field, and the soil types of field. Winter for livestock farmers is a bit different than it is for crop farmers.   —Yahya