Harvest

A Harvest represents a specific production cycle or crop year — the temporal and agricultural context in which goods were grown, harvested, or processed. In practice, a Harvest record typically corresponds to a calendar year or growing season, such as "Harvest 2024". It serves as a traceability anchor: contracts, contract positions, and transaction positions can all reference a harvest year, creating an unbroken chain from the field event through the warehouse to the final sale.

This traceability matters not only for internal reporting — knowing how much of the 2023 harvest is still in stock vs. the 2024 harvest — but also for external compliance: organic certification schemes, protected designation of origin (PDO) rules, and export documentation often require that the harvest year of the goods being traded is explicitly declared. By managing harvest years as a master data entity rather than a plain number field, the system ensures consistent use of harvest references across all modules and prevents data quality issues from free-text input.