Harvest 23: Hagbergs and proteins variable, but yields average

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Harvest 23: Hagbergs and proteins variable, but yields average

Despite delayed harvest progress and lodged crops, many growers are maintaining farm-average wheat yields even where crops are beginning to sprout in the ear

Ashleigh Ellwood

22 August 2023 鈥� 2 min read

Harvest 23: Hagbergs and proteins variable, but yields average

Lincolnshire farm director, Chris Baylis is two-thirds of the way through the farm's 2,700-hectare harvest, which includes barley, wheat, oilseed rape, and spring beans. He says: "July was a very slow...

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