Seasonal production refers to a form of production organization that produces in some seasons and stops production in other seasons according to the alternation of natural seasons. Seasonal production mainly refers to the seasonality of commodity production as the object of futures trading. For example, as agricultural products, the production process of livestock products related to agricultural products such as wheat, corn and red beans is inevitably limited by natural seasonality, so we say that the production of this product belongs to seasonal production.

The reasons for seasonal production are:

(1) The supply of raw materials is restricted by seasons, especially the harvest of raw materials for agricultural and sideline products, such as sugar pressing and fruit processing, is bound to be the season when sugarcane, beet and various fruits are on the market.

(2) Social demand is restricted by seasons, such as cotton-padded clothes and shoes, which are in great demand in winter.

(3) Limited by technological conditions, such as some products need to be processed and brewed in a specific season. According to the degree of organization of seasonal production, seasonal production can be divided into three types: seasonal production of a single product, seasonal production of a single product and seasonal production of multiple products.

The organization and management of seasonal production are characterized by periodicity, variability and unbalanced input and output. Organizing seasonal production can not only ensure sufficient supply of raw materials, high product rate and large sales volume, but also organize some perishable and inconvenient products to be processed on the spot to improve economic benefits. The characteristic of seasonal products is that their output, prices and futures prices will change with the seasons. The law is that in the harvest season, spot prices and futures prices will fall; In the peak consumption season, its price will go up.