Harvest write-off after floods?

07 August 1997

Harvest "write-off" after floods?

AFTER torrential rain and floods in Wales and the south of England this week, NFU cereal delegate Meurig Raymond says this years harvest could be a “write-off”.

The wet weather comes as feed grain prices hit a 20-year low, while winter barley and oilseed rape harvests are still under way and the winter wheat harvest has yet to start in earnest.