Your winning shots capture farming’s busiest season

Thank you to everyone who entered the 2024 Farmers Weekly Harvest Photography Competition. It was great to showcase the hard work carried out by our nation’s farmers.

We had more than 1,600 brilliant entries that captured a real sense of this summer’s harvest. Here, we crown our ultimate winner and reveal a selection of runners-up that impressed the judges.

See more: 7 fantastic harvest photo competition entries so far

Claas trio

Submitted by A T Bone & Sons

Alice Parkins is the winner of this year’s competition, with her striking drone image of three Claas combines hard at work in Hertfordshire.

Alice works as the junior office administrator at the farming business AT Bone & Sons, which encompasses more than 3,200ha of contract farming, farm business tenancies and owned land. 

She snapped this shot during the harvest of a crop of Zyatt winter wheat, at Lilley Bottom, near Hitchin, which came in at a yield of 9t/ha.

Alice says she has learned a tremendous amount during her time working for the farming company, and is keen to apply her knowledge when she returns to the family’s local arable farm.

“Seeing ATB grow from a 70-acre dairy farm in rural Hertfordshire to farming over 8,000 acres is quite the feat,” notes Alice.

“Working here has opened my eyes; it has given me a much more optimistic mindset of what will happen when I step up to the family farm back home.

“If I have half the business mind of the Bones, I’ll be set,” she says.

Pylon combines

Submitted by Peter Goodrum

This unique shot taken by Peter Goodrum at Leylands Farm, Suffolk, shows a John Deere S785i and Massey Ferguson 8T cutting a crop of Dawsum winter wheat. 

“The MF was brought in to help maintain the harvest schedule following some unexpected downtime with the JD. It was an opportunity to capture some images of the JD and MF working in tandem,” he says.

Peter loves harvest time as it motivates him to spend more time outdoors enjoying nature. He enters the Farmers Weekly harvest photo competition each year to share a snapshot of farms at work.

Nature harvest                            

Submitted by Neil Saunders

Hampshire farmer Neil Saunders took this picture of Laureate spring malting barley being cut, with a winter bird food margin of phacelia and other seeds also in the frame.

Combine operator John Crates, who has worked for Neil for 16 years, was bringing in the 130ha crop with the John Deere S770i at a yield of 8.5t/ha.

“The flowers in the photo are phacelia within a mix of other seeds for one of our AB9 overwinter bird food cover crops.

“I strongly believe that good food production can go hand in hand with environmental care – hopefully this photo illustrates that,” says Neil.

Down the lane

Submitted by Andrew Knaggs

Standing in his driveway on the outskirts of Little Downham near Ely in the Cambridgeshire Fens, Andrew Knaggs took this picture of the local farmer, WR Jackson & Son, bringing in the Skyfall wheat harvest.

Andrew grew up on a farm in Yorkshire. He has lived and worked in The Fens for more than 20 years.

He says it has been great moving back to the countryside, surrounded by farming and nature, and enjoys keeping an eye on all the local farming.

Aerial view

Submitted by Annabel

Luke Norton took this drone photo at Hall Farm in Hemblington, Norfolk, of a crop of Flagon winter barley being cut by a CR9090 New Holland combine.

Sunset snap

Submitted by Katie Hammond

Katie Archer captured this beautiful sunset snap in a field of Planet spring barley near Yaxley, Suffolk. The crop yielded 7.5t/ha at 14% moisture.

Blue skies

Submitted by Peter Fedor

The rain was staying away for winter wheat harvest at Chickney Hall Farm, Essex. Thanks to Peter Fedor for uploading the image.