Harvest

Potato growers who were unable to get on their fields made their way to the British Potato Show in Harrogate, Yorkshire, last week. The weather was a hot topic, but so was the long-term future of the sector.

An arable farm profitability model using current market data has been updated to produce revised forecasts for harvest 2023 and 2024

With heavy rainfall creating challenging potato harvest conditions, lifting and cleaning crop still in the field with minimal damage is becoming increasingly difficult

We eventually got our field of barley combined last week after a month of obsessing over every weather forecast and watching the undersown chicory, grass and clover grow ever taller until it almost looked like a green field again.

As the forage maize harvest gets underway this autumn, some growers are reporting insufficient clamp space following a bumper grass growing season and the promise of heavy maize crops

A service was held at St Giles Cathedral to celebrate harvest

With sugar beet lifting getting off to an early start as early contract beet was lifted, analysis indicates sugar content is being diluted by larger root weights this season

The NFU is encouraging growers to take part in its Harvest Survey 2023

The rather soggy harvest of 2023 is coming to a close. Well, I hope it is all in the shed by the time this is published anyway. It has definitely been a long one.

British blackberries will be on supermarket shelves beyond hedgerow season until November