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Well, these past six weeks have been abysmal. After writing in the last article “I hoped I would not regret drilling all the crops by 9 October as the

We started chopping the maize in the last week of September and finished in four days. A superb effort by James Bell and his team. The crop averaged just

After receiving 110mm of rain in July, we then had 102mm in August. We managed two proper days of combining, starting before 10am and finishing at about

Sorry, for the start of harvest I am not going to talk about the weather again. It has been a “mainly stop and little start” harvest. We have personally

Wow, that was some spring, I think we can say we are in the meteorological summer. We ended up having 320mm rain in 70 days, with 20 dry days in that

Over the past three years, figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency have shown a gradual climb in the number of students enrolling to study

The farm is starting to get wet again and all the flood meadows are currently under water. In the end, 2022 gave us 746mm of rain, which was 216mm below

If you grow oilseed rape, you might be dreading the wet weather more than the average person. After all, it’s well known to be one of the biggest

Since I wrote my previous article, we have had 85mm of rain and two major storms. We were incredibly lucky and only lost a handful of trees, but that does