Arable Farmer Focus FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: The inheritance tax fight isn't over yetYou could be forgiven for thinking that farmers have lost interest and abandoned the fight against Labour's inheritance tax raid. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Anyone who has… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Selling wheat at a poor price of £173/tHarvest is all over in record time this year, making it the easiest harvest in history and completed in record time. I don't think I have ever before had two… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Farming pulls together through the fireWhat a month it has been, the largest swath of moor to burn in my lifetime has caused much worry to many and still smoulders in the peat today, two… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: A season of trialling new ideasConsidering how optimistic we were early in the spring, when crops went into promising seed-beds, it seems that mother nature has again given us another testing year. The trial I… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: A good harvest with a poor marketThe harvest was very fast this year, all wrapped in five weeks from start to finish. It was a remarkably quick timeframe, with week after week of good weather -… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Rain arrives and autumn prep beginsIt has finally rained. We’ve had 30mm in the past week, with the same forecast for this week. Hopefully, this gets the weeds and cover crops chitting. We finished combining… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: The best worst harvest everHarvest 2025 was the hardest easy harvest we’ve ever had. It was easy because machines went well and there was virtually nothing to dry. No cereals were cut below 13%… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: A fond farewell means a look forward to changeIn my family’s 30 years in Canterbury and the arable industry, we have been guided by our farm consultant, Roy. Arable was completely new for us - as in, we’d… FARMER FOCUSFarmer focus: Did we just bring in the dream harvest?We often talk about what the dream harvest would look like in Scotland, and this year we may well have encountered it. It felt like we experienced a "Southerner's… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Neighbour’s harvest prompts envyThere are many things that can stress a farmer over the harvest period, the obvious one being the weather. Hearing how your neighbour’s yields have been so much better than… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Second wheats need improvementLike most, harvest has been pretty straightforward, dry to very wet conditions meant the wheat was coming off between 14-15% so no need for drying – just some cooling through… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Sunshine, stress and storageHarvest started at Southesk on 24 July, a week earlier than usual and, at time of writing we are 70% cut. Unsurprisingly, and having reported this in previous articles, 43… More articles
