Durum Wheat.
Hard wheat, grown for pasta. In 2025 it came in at under two tonnes a hectare in places against an expected six, which is the single clearest number for what the drought did.
- Expected
- 6t/ha
- 2025 actual
- Under 2t/ha in places
- Becomes
- Diddly Tractor Pasta
What actually happens with it.
Hard wheat, grown for pasta. In 2025 it came in at under two tonnes a hectare in places against an expected six, which is the single clearest number for what the drought did.
It becomes the tractor-shaped pasta in the farm shop, which sells for £5.50 a bag and does considerably better than the raw grain would have.
- Expected: 6t/ha
- 2025 actual: Under 2t/ha in places
- Becomes: Diddly Tractor Pasta
Drilled
Autumn or spring, depending on the year.
Grown
On Cotswold brash over limestone.
Harvested
Weather permitting, which is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
Sold
As something worth more than the raw crop.
The field this comes out of, in the season it looks best. It does not look like this in February.
Watch it grow.
The field cameras run all year, including the eleven months when nothing happens.
What people actually ask.
The two questions this page gets most, answered without a support ticket.
Because the worst ground costs more to crop than it returns, and because hedgerow, scrub and margin do measurable work that a combine never will.
The seasonal state at the top of every page is the short answer, and the farming year is the long one.
First sight of every drop
The things that sell out do it in minutes. This is the only warning anyone gets.
