Just a quick reminder that the Farmers Weekly Photography Competition 2009 is now open. Full details are here. Good luck!

Some brilliant pictures coming in... I've already been emailed hundreds - and a lot of people have been uploading them direct to the gallery. It's well worth a look at the gallery if you're interested in farming pictures - there are some stunners in there.

 i've uploaded my efforts

i saw that you can enter up to 6 pictures so  i entered 4 pics because i couldnt decide which was my best

Just in case people are wondering - picture that are emailed in will not be added to the gallery (I am afraid there are too many of them for us to cope!)

However, what we will do when we judge them is produce a "long list" of potential winners and these will be uploaded to a separate gallery. You'll at least then see the very best of the ones that have been emailed in!

Final winners will be announced around Christmas.

Just a reminder that this Friday (December 4) is the closing date for this competition - so if you're going to submit any pictures, time is running out. I've just been sorting thruogh some of the entries that have already come in - some fantastic shots in there!

Had a few inquiries about this... we're going to be announcing the shortlist next Wednesday (December 9).

Here are the six winners. You can also vote for which one you think is the best to help us decide the "winner of winners". My favourite's the hare.

This is the picture that ended up being voted "winner of winners" in the Photography Competition. John White's photo of an April scene in Shropshire won the arable category then went on to take 46% of the votes when we opened it up for readers to pick their favourite of the six category winners.