Harvest 2013

From wheat and corn to grapes and cabbages, this season's Northern Hemisphere harvest has been a success.

(Total 38 photos)

1. Gordon Kenison holds an ear of corn during a litter crop at a farm in Levan, Utah, October 5, 2013.

2. Japanese youth harvesting rice on a farm in Isumi, Chiba Prefecture. Although Japan's 4.63 million hectares of rice fields are mostly cultivated by farmers over 65 years of age, more and more young people from urban areas are taking part in rice planting and harvesting as part of an effort to stimulate rural communities.

3. Students harvest beets in the field of farmer Igor Pakush near the village of Putniki, 40 km northwest of Minsk, on October 2, 2013.

4. Migrant workers from Mexico and Nicaragua harvest Burley tobacco in Pleajeville, Kentucky, September 9, 2013.

5. Lloyd Giles climbs into his harvester after harvesting in a field south of High River, Alberta, Canada, September 28, 2013.

Robert Stanford, 16, helps unload a pumpkin from a trailer at Asbury United Methodist Church in Corpus Christi, Texas, October 3, 2013.

7. Palestinian farmer Bashir Khabaybeh (right) gathers sesame in his field in the West Bank village of Sanur, near Jenin, September 7, 2013.

8. Harvest in a barley field near the town of Benešov, 50 km south of Prague, on July 19, 2013.

9. Herve Zarka harvests salt on the island of Noirmoutier, western France, on July 18, 2013.

10. A Palestinian worker climbs a palm tree at a farm in Deir el-Bala, in the south of the Gaza Strip, on October 7, 2013.

11. Don Merry pours oysters onto his boat in Duxbury Bay, Massachusetts, September 12, 2013.

12. People take part in the grape harvest for the Koza-Janot champagne house in Buxoy, France, on September 24, 2013.

13. Students collect potatoes at a state farm near the village of Timki, Belarus, September 5, 2013.

14. A man collects alfalfa on his land in Kolontar, 167 km southwest of Budapest, Hungary, October 3, 2013.

15. Granny Smith delivers apples to a processing plant near Timberville, Virginia, September 24, 2013.

11. 11-year-old Lyren McDaniel jumps in the hay during the Harvest Festival in the village of Shaker, near Harrodsburg, Kentucky, September 28, 2013.

17. Grape harvest near the village of Kachreti, 80 km east of Tbilisi, Georgia, September 22, 2013.

18. Huge pumpkins lie on pallets at the Royal Horticultural Society during the Harvest Festival in London, England, October 9, 2013.

19. Prize apple during the Harvest Festival at the Royal Horticultural Society in London, October 9, 2013.

20. A man harvests cotton in the fields near Kunduz, Afghanistan, October 5, 2013.

21. A woman sorts dates at a farm in Deir el-Bala, in the south of the Gaza Strip, on October 7, 2013.

22. A woman washes bananas at the Santa Cruz plantation in Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas, Mexico on August 2, 2013.

23. Kosovo workers load potatoes during the harvest in the village of Pestova, northwest of Pristina, September 23, 2013.

24. A Khasi farmer harvests cabbage in a field on the outskirts of Shillong, Meghalaya state, India, September 30, 2013.

25. A farmer controls the loading of grain under heavy rain during the annual agricultural fair in Grand Island, Nebraska, September 11, 2013.

26. Unemployed people participate in the harvest of carrots in the field of farmer Igor Pakush near the village of Malashki, 40 km northwest of Minsk, October 2, 2013.

27. Marvin Kenison rides a combine during the wheat harvest at a farm in Levan, Utah, October 5, 2013.

28. Polish fishermen pull their nets at the Milickie Ponds in the village of Grabovnica, in southwestern Poland, on October 8, 2013.

29. A worker picks grapes at dawn near Chenay, Beaujolais, eastern France, September 24, 2013.

30. Harvesting wheat in a field near the village of Divnoye, 190 km northeast of Stavropol, on July 4, 2013.

31. Christian volunteers take part in the grape harvest in the Jewish settlement of Har Bracha on the West Bank, near Shechem, September 3, 2013.

32. Kashmiris participate in the harvest of rice in the village of Boras, 40 km northeast of Srinagar, India, October 2, 2013.

33. A worker in a vineyard near Johannisberg, central Germany, August 26, 2013.

34. A Hmong woman gathers rice in a field in Mu Cang Chai district, northern Vietnam's Yen Bai province, on October 7, 2013.

35. A Palestinian farmer collects dates in Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, on October 3, 2013.

36. Brett Kenison, 7, watches grain being harvested at his family's farm in Levan, Utah, October 5, 2013.

37. Chinese children lie on corn in Jiaozhou, Shandong province, October 4, 2013.

38. Harvesting wheat in a field near the village of Lakino, 95 km north of Krasnoyarsk, September 24, 2013.