Andrew Wilson
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- Sep 9, 2026
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Farmer Focus: It's the end of the road for sugar beet - Farmers Weekly (opens the original)
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August can often be a wet month here, and 2026 hasn’t been an exception. We had 63mm of rain in the month, which is nearly as much as May, June and July combined. Thankfully, we had finished our cereal harvest by the time most of it arrived, and I’m pleased to report we’ve had a fair to middling harvest. Winter barley and winter beans both yielded about 10% over our average, while spring oats, spring barley and wheat were down about 5%, which is better than feared. The surprise this year has bee
Farmer Focus: Dry days test patience - and profit - Farmers Weekly (opens the original)
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I know I’ve said previously in this column I prefer a dry time to a wet one – and we won’t be the first people to refer to irrigators as irritators – but boy it’s a tester this time! It’s fair to say our systems are a bit antiquated and in need of investment, but as we hurtle towards what looks like another breakeven season at best, appetite for improvement is currently driven by a need to make our physical job more bearable, rather than any financial justification. Root crops have been the back
Farmer Focus: 100 years of farming calls for celebrations - Farmers Weekly (opens the original)
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Time stands still for no man, particularly in farming, and in this, my 50th year, we celebrate 100 years of Wilsons farming on the Castle Howard Estate, which was cause for some celebrations last week. We hosted a group from our local village, some Young Farmers, our local NFU farm safety day, and had a birthday party. It was a good excuse to wash some sheds, lay some concrete and have a deeper pre-harvest tidy-up than time sometimes allows. See also: Farmer Focus: Jeremy Clarkson – an asset to
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