Today our neighbour arrived with his enormous combine to harvest our back field of organic wheat.  

After spending a good hour transporting it and assembling the 20 foot header it began to rain, (not that it rains much in Sinderby!).

We made  a start for about two minutes then discovered the resulting wheat was 22 percent moisture (it is supposed to be 15!)  So the combine now sits in the field looking rather forlorn.  (See photo.)  

It is a bit of a rush to finish the back field as the next crop is due to be grass/clover, which likes to be safely in the ground by the end of August, so time is running out.