poor harvest
Meager agricultural yield
A poor harvest is a growing season that yields less crop than expected or needed.
The phrase appears in agricultural contexts and historical accounts of famine: The poor harvest left villages facing starvation through winter.
Figuratively, any disappointing return on effort: Despite months of networking, she reaped a poor harvest of job leads.
- famineSevere food shortage
- droughtProlonged water scarcity
- blightPlant disease causing decay
- crop failureWhen fields yield nothing
- barrenUnable to produce
scarcity · grain shortage · withered · hunger · frost · locusts · parched · stunted · meager · starvation · rotted · fields · grain · yield · hardship · hard times · dust · dust bowl
- farm hazardsdrought, frost damage, flood, hail damage, frost
- farm yieldsyield, crop, bushel, bale, bumper crop
- berry pickingstrawberry picking, blueberry picking, berry basket, berry farm, u-pick farm
poor harvestbumper crop
Unusually large harvest
bountiful harvest · good harvest · overproduction · banner year · glut
poor harvestbumper crop
Unusually large harvest
feast · cornucopia · windfall · land of plenty · horn of plenty
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