“A good study of the reality of farming business and where it is going: We found a newspaper recently from 1983 – over 40 years ago. Feed wheat prices were up-to £129 per ton, and a new combine harvester was around £36,000. Fast forward to today, wheat is currently around £185 per ton, and an average sized comparable combine harvester is around £350,000. So, wheat has gone up 43%, combine harvesters have gone up 872%! “

It seems the April showers, like most recent years, have come a little early and with an influx of wet weather these past two weeks it’s certainly thwarting any plan to get on the land for many farmers in the UK – well us, for sure, but thankfully the farmer isn’t stressing about it too much…… yet.