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27th August 2009, Page 52
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Harvesting behind schedule

HARVESTING IS GOING ahead, despite the recent run of wet weather, with farmers fearing that any more rain will leave crops rotting in waterlogged fields, claims the National Farmers Union (NFU).

At the end of the first week of August, harvesting was 10 days behind schedule, and the NFU was appealing to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to lift wet harvest restrictions in order for farmers to be able to bring in the wheat crop.

However, the cost, as in the last two years, of drying grain will add significant pressure to the supply chain.

Cornwall and Wales have been seriously delayed in harvesting; East Anglia is behind schedule; and the West Midlands’ crops are largely not ripe enough for harvest.

Grain hauliers must pray for some dry, hot weather in the next few weeks.


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