Harvest 20: Winter barley yields matching five-year average despite season's challenges

In Cambridgeshire, Cassia winter barley yields are looking ‘suprisingly okay’ says Tom Mead of Mead Farms in Foxton.

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Harvest 20: Winter barley yields matching five-year average despite season's challenges

In Cambridgeshire, Cassia winter barley yields are looking ‘suprisingly okay' says Tom Mead of Mead Farms in Foxton. "We finished cutting a 16ha field yesterday which did 8.6tonnes/hectare at 14 per...

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