Harvest photo comp: Win your place on FW’s front cover

Harvest is a particularly photogenic time of year and with combines rolling through winter barley and oilseed rape, many farmers are grabbing pictures on their phones and cameras.

So if you have captured an image of harvest 2016, Farmers Weekly has a great opportunity for you – we are offering readers the chance to see one of their harvest photographs on the front cover of the magazine.

Picture by CJB Contracting

All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning this unique prize is upload your shots of the summer season to our Harvest 2016 photo gallery.

It could focus on the crop, the combines, a tractor, people hard at work or perhaps a more unusual aspect. Basically, we are looking for a snap that captures the spirit of this year’s harvest.

Early reports suggest the word “disappointing” sums up the harvest experience for many, but as farmers move into winter wheat, some are more optimistic about the prospects. 

See also: French farmers hit by wheat yields catastrophe

The winning picture will be the main image on a cover of Farmers Weekly towards the end of the summer or in the early autumn.

We will announce a closing date later in the summer (it depends on how early or late harvest is), but when we spot the perfect picture we will use it – so don’t take too long to share your entries.

The picture at the top of this article is just one of the many Farmers Weekly readers have already shared. Loaded into the gallery by FWi user “CJB Contracting”, it shows a combine “racing to snatch some Concerto under a moody sky” in Norfolk.