It was yielding 9.39 t/ha (3.80 t/acre) at 13.5% moisture content with a specific weight of 67 kg/hl.

“The bushel weight is absolutely exceptional.

“The Siberia is an early crop and I find it easy to combine.

“The only trouble is that it’s not worth a lot.”

Mr Jones’s farm in North Wales hasn’t seen much of the bad weather that most of the rest of the UK has had in recent weeks.

“I called up a friend in Rugby, and he said that he was having huge amounts of rain while I was sitting on the combine harvesting.”