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Wet weather, yields and quality have led to recent price fall as farmers report field-to-field variables

A mix of sporadic showers and sunshine causes worries for growers

Harvest is underway in the UK and around Europe

Traders make haste as global production fears lessen

AHDB’s latest Planting and Variety Survey shows ‘dramatic decline’ despite a modest rise in barley and oats

Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops.