Harvest is about 60-70% complete in Shropshire, with 40-50% of the wheat now cut, according to independent agronomist Bryce Rham.

“Yields have been all over the place – light land is not clever, at about 7.4t/ha (3t/acre), but fertile, heavy land is yielding over 10t/ha (4t/acre) as normal.”

Despite heavy rain crops were holding up well, he said. “Quality has been fantastic, with bushelweights at 76-82kg/hl.

“Although the odd crop is falling over, generally they are standing and are clean. I haven’t seen any sprouting yet.

“We just need a week of dry sunny weather to break the back of the wheat harvest before it all starts going pear shaped.”

 Oilseed rape was finished, and yields were pleasing at 4-5.4t/ha (1.6-2.2t/acre), he added.

“Cabernet has been a mixed bag – but where it’s failed is where people didn’t control the pigeons – that made a late crop even later.

“Vision and Cubic have done well, with a lot averaging 4.4-4.7t/ha (1.8-1.9t/acre).”