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Harvest Diaries 2025: Cereal harvest reaches final stages

Keep up to date with how harvest is progressing this season as winter barley drawers to completion and combines are part way through wheat, oats and spring barley

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Harvest Diaries 2025: Cereal harvest reaches final stages

Cereal harvest reaches final stages - Aug 29 Based in Newbury, Berkshire, Georgie Carlisle Smith farms alongside her two twin brothers Tom and Will Carlisle. As part of a contract farming agreement...

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