Yields good and quality high in early wheat harvest

摘要

The wheat harvest kicked off in the eastern arable heartland of England this week, with early reports showing reasonable yields and very good quality. Combines were moving through scattered crops of winter wheat on lighter land, dodging the showers and turning in some good milling grain samples. With a big chunk of the winter barley already cut in southern England and Wales and oilseed rape progressing slowly, attention is switching to the bigger wheat crop. Andrew Tetlow of AWT Farm Services startedcutting some of his milling wheat on Sunday, grown on the farming group's lighter land near Newmarket in Suffolk. The first 1 lOha of wheat cut was coming in at a good yield varying between 9t/ha and llt/ha at 11.6% moisture for the milling variety Solstice.