Photos: Winner crowned in 2025 harvest competition

Thanks to everyone who entered Farmers Weekly’s harvest photo competition, with more 1,600 stunning images submitted.

Here’s the winning shot which will be featured on the front cover of our 5 September issue – and a selection of the best entries.

See also: Harvest 2025: Wheat 92% complete, spring barley 68%

© Matt Dick

Coastal Claas 

Matt Dick is the winner of this year’s harvest photo competition, with this stunning coastal image of a Claas Lexion 540 cutting a crop of spring barley.

Matt was corn carting when he snapped the prizewinning shot capturing the crashing waves of Filey Bay, East Yorkshire, in the background.

By trade, Matt is a mechanical engineer in diesel engine design, and enjoys spending his spare time working on his girlfriend’s family farm.

As a keen photographer, his camera is always found in the tractor cab ready to capture that special moment, and rightfully so with office views like this.

“This year was a very straightforward harvest – we didn’t have any rain interruptions, no mechanical mishaps and no backlogs with the dryer.

“My girlfriend’s granddad remarked it was the earliest finish in his 75 years of farming,” says Matt.

Irish spring barley 

© James Byrne

Farming and wildlife enthusiast James Byrne is passionate about capturing the entire farming calendar.

He took this smashing photo of a New Holland CX5.80 combine with a Case Puma 155, driven by John, Mervyn and Joe Tully, hard at work in County Wexford.

We particularly like the red and yellow theme, which matches Farmers Weekly branding.

Dream becomes reality

© Damian Amor

Damian Amor was lucky enough to fulfil his childhood dream of helping bring in the harvest this year in Marlborough.

Growing up in Wiltshire and working for a local building supplier for 26 years, Damian jumped at the chance to go grain carting, chasing the John Deere X9 1100 combine with 45ft flex draper header around the fields for a week.

Busy harvest team

© Sam Wadsworth

Seventeen-year-old Sam Wadsworth sent this delightful snap of the Coxall Farm team harvesting spring oats.

Since his older brother started working on the farm in Shropshire last year, Sam has been busy expanding his photography skill set.

The Hackpen White Horse

© David White

Combining below the Hackpen White Horse on the Marlborough Downs, David White captured the moment this John Deere duo cut a crop of Kingsbarn winter barley.

The White family have farmed on the Downs since 1906.

Ninth harvest

© Jack Ellis

Jack Ellis sent in this great image of Mascani winter oats being cut, marking his ninth harvest at Aythorpe Hall Farm in Essex.

Jack started as an arable operator when he was 16 before climbing the ranks to combine operator.

“My granddad used to work on the same farm for over 40 years, and he too was the combine operator,” says Jack.

Stormy Scottish spring barley

© Ron Bews

Ron Bews has been taking photos and helping at Rosskeen Farm, run by the

Gill family, for more than 15 years. The malting spring barley crop yielded well, but high winds two weeks before harvest caused some crop damage.

Wheat and wind turbines

© Caelan Bales-Howard

Broke Brothers Farmers were busy bringing in the Dawsum winter wheat in Norfolk when Caelan Bales-Howard took this shot.