Combines kicked off across the south of England last week, getting into some early ripening crops before the weather broke.
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Jamie Montgomery baling winter barley at South Cadbury, Somerset. The crop will be used to feed and bed down the family’s Holstein and Jersey herds.Pic by Nick Fone.
Suffolk contractors, the Duchesne family, kicked off the 2013 harvest campaign in Flaggon and Suzuka winter barley last week.Pic by Richard Duchesne.
Mat Leach unloads Canadian red wheat from his Axial Flow into chaser bins pulled by a Magnum at dusk.Pic by Mat Leach.
Mat Leach cutting hard red wheat on his farm near Fenelon Falls, Ontario, Canada. Pic by Mat Leach.
Winter wheat is unloaded into the chaser bins near Fenelon Falls, Ontario, Canada where ex-UK dairy farmer Matt Leach now farms. Pic by Mat Leach.
Coombe Farms Contracting on their first outing of the year cutting barley at Neville Bartlett’s Bridge View Farm nar Chepstow. Pic by HDP.
Westrope Farms’ Claas Lexion 770TT tackles winter barley on the first day of harvest 2013 at Shottisham near Wodbridge in Suffolk. Pic by Malc Pearce.
James and Alistair Heath of J. Heath and Sons get stuck in to their crop of Wilja potatoes last week, with Twiglet the dog looking on. Pic by Ben Broadhurst.
A 1953 Field Marshall and McCormick binder cut winter wheat in Staffordshire alongside a Massey Ferguson 9280. Pic by Tom Giles.
Somerset contractor Ben Stretton chops wholecrop winter wheat with his John Deere 7300 and 4m QuickCut disc header. Pic by Nick Fone.
Grown by the Raymond family at Henstridge for their 280-head Jersey herd. The crop was yielding over 12.5/t/acre. Pic by Nick Fone.
James Faulkner cuts the first of R Davidson and Sons’ oilseed rape on Mersea Island near Colchester, Essex. Pic by Robert Davidson.
