Harvest

Seasonal crop latest to suffer from growing season plagued by bad weather and pests

RHASS and St Giles’ Cathedral recognised the efforts of Scotland’s farmers and acknowledged the challenging weather this year

Met Office says 10 English counties experienced wettest September on record

In the last of our potato agronomy series, Farmers Guardian gets the view on harvest prospects and talking points of the 2024 season from agronomists in Scotland and England

Helen is a fifth-generation farmer who farms with her parents, David and Anne Shaw, husband, Craig, and their children, Alfred and Hattie, at Grey Leys Farm in the Vale of York. The farm comprises 162 hectares (400 acres) of grass, maize and wholecrop for the herd of 240 pedigree Jersey cows and more than 200 followers

Following last autumn's troublesome drilling, farmers should think carefully before embarking on planting

ECIU said months of significant rainfall has reduced the wheat harvest by almost a fifth

Wet weather has hampered combining as farmers face looming storage worries

Kate is a fifth-generation farmer running the 750-hectare (1,853-acre) Hundleshope Farm on the Haystoun Estate, Peebles, where the family have been tenants for 150 years. She runs the hill unit with her husband Ed and their four children. She is also a vet and chair of Quality Meat Scotland

Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops