Patchy weather has been the focus of frustrated farmer tweets as rain holds up harvest progress across the UK.

Some have been luckier than others in the past week or so, but rain rants have become all too common on social media lately.

We’ve picked 19 tweets to give a flavour of the mood among arable farmers this week.

See also: Harvest 2017: The 5 top-yielding winter barley varieties of harvest 2017

Don’t forget to follow Farmers Weekly’s dedicated harvest account @FWharvest for all the latest news, analysis, photos and videos of harvest 2017.

Complete standstill

Can't seem to get 3 days in a row with the combine #harvest17 pic.twitter.com/JwX8enMsBX

— Walnut Farm (@farmwalnut1) August 8, 2017

Here we go again. The view of #harvest17 pic.twitter.com/l1DCXU1j3o

— Neil&Annabel Farbon (@FullardsFarm) August 7, 2017

🌧️🌧️30mm of rain since midnight has put a pretty firm stop on #harvest17 at the moment, no sign of it stopping any time soon either 😨🌧️🌧️

— Mark Jelley (@PerkinsLodge) August 8, 2017

Well, #harvest17 ‘s off again. Surprise surprise ☔️😤😱 pic.twitter.com/AEGJCN9nrX

— Jordi king (@JRagrifab) August 7, 2017

Harvest in the hail

First combine with 4wd great for hills becoming useful on flat to #harvest17 pic.twitter.com/JXDkdhPdqY

— A. R. Peters & Son (@sussexfarming) August 8, 2017

Dark clouds

Got to love sunny #august #Shropshire #harvest17 pic.twitter.com/v4oVH5J63t

— Dr_Dick_Byrne 🌍 (@Dr_RJByrne) August 8, 2017

Checking the weather forecast can cause a big mood swing

Oh joy more thunder and maybe hail forecast for the afternoon, another standstill day #harvest17 pic.twitter.com/LMfC4uZoCT

— Verity Garrett (@kentishfarmer) August 8, 2017

How we feel right now 😭🌧 #harvest17 #harvest2017 #clubhectare pic.twitter.com/ztWLNIWVR5

— Harvest Live 2017 (@FWharvest) August 8, 2017

Night shift to beat the rain

Good night sunshine, the question is what time is Mr rain up?! #harvest17 onwards pic.twitter.com/aZqYTRpcPm

— James Thompson (@farmerThomo) August 7, 2017

The rain held off and into the wheat at 8.30 pm… #harvest17 @FWharvest #theboys #suffolk @CLAAS_Eastern pic.twitter.com/B2XrXRLn25

— H (@countrymousie) August 7, 2017

Chomping through some OSR as the sun goes down #harvest17 pic.twitter.com/KIf4XdciZQ

— Farmer Rich 🇬🇧 (@rich_whittaker) August 7, 2017

Others resorted to pleading with the weather

@CumbriaWeather pls can you get rid of this hubby says wants this instead #harvest17 Any chance 👇🏼. 👌🏽👌🏽🙏🏼 pic.twitter.com/GHvIydQgKl

— rattycastle (@rattycastle) August 8, 2017

The sun will come out tomorrow

@AHDB_Cereals @JpfClay #harvest17 Its all about perspective.We cant do it all at once and the sun will come out soon. pic.twitter.com/wLnX4Uuzer

— martin williams (@loosecollie) August 7, 2017

Not everyone has suffered as much from rain

#harvest17 is going well at @YattendonEstate. The team are working hard to bring the crops in and cultivations are ahead of schedule #Claas pic.twitter.com/CYTcxnx4Zg

— Yattendon Estates (@YattendonEstate) August 8, 2017

We have a blue sky in Fife😎 #harvest17 #weather pic.twitter.com/8k2qZrk3XC

— William Telfer (@telfer_william) August 8, 2017

Anybody else still combining? Somehow we seem to have missed almost all of the #rain. #LGSundance earlier at 13.5% moisture. #harvest17 pic.twitter.com/kKW1PxU1W3

— Kit Papworth (@farmerkit) August 7, 2017

#harvest17 had a good afternoon #wheat cutting,been lucky with the weather so far😊 pic.twitter.com/20AiirKO8m

— Steve (@gaptoothbaldy) August 7, 2017

Rain? What rain…. lucky so far. Wish @metoffice were accurate #harvest2017 pic.twitter.com/rIqjMpaJjl

— Harry Mouland 🇬🇧 🚜 🌾 (@Farmer_Mooo) August 8, 2017

Some lucky people have Harvest 2017 all wrapped up already!

https://twitter.com/JR_Stokes/status/894616555828457472