Thunderbirds are go?

• Temporary Grain store prepared?
• Sales and storage strategy agreed?
• Long term storage cleaned?
• Combine serviced and ready
• Grain trailers prepared and ready?
• Tractors Ready?
• Staff trained and available?
• Crops ripe and dry?

Harvest 2025 is almost ready.  It’s such an early harvest this year due to the dry weather.  It means the preparation is a little rushed (we usually have 2 weeks more time) but we have a plan and expect the combine to role into our fields within the next week.

The dry weather has had a major impact on some critical growth stages and we’re quite wary of yields this summer.   The growth of all our crops has been restricted by the dry weather but the recent (last week) sunshine will hopefully help the seeds fill out.   Simply due to weather a very good result will be an “average” yield.  This alongside the currently very depressed grain prices mean that we expect another challenging financial year.

Hopefully when we get some yield results (from the combine yield meter) I will be able to report back with better news. 

For now though, all systems are go and we’re waiting for the crops to reach their harvest criteria.