He hopes to finish harvesting his 140ha (350 acre) wheat crop on Friday (Sept 3) and then swiftly combine 16ha (40 acres) of linseed.

“I don‘t think it‘s been a bad year at all – I‘m very happy and if prices were better I‘d be delighted.”

One field of Robigus yielded 11.12 t/ha (4.5 t/acre) while his Solstice produced 8.4 t/ha (3.4 t/acre) and made milling quality with Hagbergs over 280.

“Yields are phenomenal.”

“It‘s coming in dry which is an enormous bonus. We haven‘t had to do too much drying so far.”

He‘s received 7 or 8 inches of rain in the last month and said: “We got our fair share.”

The main money earner for Mr Branstone is the equestrian unit and this year‘s wheat produced a bad crop of straw which he said was “disappointing”.