Sunday 14th September 2014

We have had almost 14 days of dry weather and it has allowed us to combine all crops except 80 acres of spring oil seed rape which has been sprayed off so should be  a week to 10 days. We combined on 11 successive days approximately 600 acres. All straw has been baled although we chopped some headlands and about 80 acres of spring wheat. Yields of 1st Wheats and Spring barley have been better than average but the spring wheat was disappointing right across all soils and drilling dates, as was the second wheats.

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