He‘s having problems with heavy dews and increasingly shorter days.

“The dew is so heavy I can‘t get going until the afternoon and then sun goes down at about 7.30 leaving me right back where I started.”

He is a third of the way through the wheat harvest having cut 30ha (75 acres) out of 90ha (225 acres).

Cordiale and Xi19 were harvested before the bulk of the rain. He said the Cordiale was “fantastic” but the Xi19 had problems with protein.

But the Robigus, Gladiator and Claire have been harvested after the rain. The ears have become very brittle and he is losing some of the heads. There is also sprouting in the ear.

“It looks awful. The grain is all pale, like everything‘s been washed out of it.”

“We‘re just going to get what we can. It‘s a mess – it‘s really testing my patience.”

Mr Lankfer still has 16ha (40 acres) of winter beans, 7ha (15 acres) of spring beans and 3ha (7 acres) of Lupins to harvest.

His Clipper winter beans have gone flat while the Wizard remained standing, but is very thin and he believes yields will be poor.

One of the few things that have gone well in recent weeks is the drilling of the oilseed rape crop which was done with relative ease, he added.