Summer on the farm.
Watching the wheat and waiting. Harvest begins in late July if the weather allows, and in 2025 it very much did not — drought took thirty per cent of the wheat and forty per cent of the barley.
What actually happens.
Watching the wheat and waiting. Harvest begins in late July if the weather allows, and in 2025 it very much did not — drought took thirty per cent of the wheat and forty per cent of the barley.
The site itself changes with the season — the colours you are looking at right now are the summer palette, and they will change again without anybody touching the code.
- Watching: The wheat
- Harvest: Late July onwards
- 2025: Drought, and a £5,000 loss
When
June to August
In the ground
The wheat
On camera
The field cameras run all year.
In the shop
Whatever this season produced.
The summer plate from the estate illustration set. The Field palette follows the real season at OX7.
The other three seasons.
And what each of them does to a thousand acres.
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.
