Making plans at current grain prices

摘要

Harvest is complete at Fearn Farm in northeast Scotland. Now John Scott is thinking hard about protecting next year's arable margins. John Scott admits he has been fortunate this harvest. A small wheat area of 48 acres was cleared successfully and thefarm's barley is now safely in the shed too. It's also the first year the Scotts have benefited from the new grain dryer installed last year, partly funded under Scodand's Rural Development Programme. "We were luckier than some, there's no doubt. Everything we had is in the shed in good order, and even the stuff that came off at 22% was down to under 15% pretty quickly with the new dryer. But I am aware that others haven't been so fortunate - Aberdeenshire has had it particularly badly."