“It was absolutely desperate 10 days ago and we‘re relieved to have nearly finished.”

Mr Hues has 1,000ha (2,500 acres) of Claire. The first wheats, grown after oilseed rape, yielded 9.88 t/ha (4 t/acre), while second wheats yielded 7.41 t/ha (3 t/acre).

He is going to carry on harvesting again later this afternoon (Sept 2) and hopes to get lower moisture contents.

“We‘re trying to avoid the drier. We‘ve been cutting at 22% moisture this year and drying bills are massive.”

“I‘m glad we harvested at that moisture because we managed to save some of the hagbergs. We got a £3/t premium which covered the drying bill.”

Mr Hues said his oilseed rape was far from a success this year.

“The winter rape was a big disappointment. We were only managing to get 1 t/acre (2.5 t/ha) while the spring rape did 1.75 t/acre (4.3 t/ha).”