Highland Grain Registered Office:- Glaikmore North Kessock Inverness IV1 3UD UK
Tel: +44(0)1463 811435
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27 October 2008 2008 - A Difficult Harvest Successfully Negotiated
The 2008 harvest will be remembered by many in Southern Scotland and Northern England for all of the wrong reasons, with excessive rainfall turning many good looking crops of wheat, barley and oats into poor quality product which, in many cases, may be difficult to sell. A buoyant market pre-harvest fell sharply as big crops of mainly good quality cereals were harvested across the whole of the Northern Hemisphere. Nature was kinder in the Highland Grain area but it was nevertheless a difficult harvest, with average moisture levels up by at least 1% over the 10 year mean. Harvest was also later than normal and continued for 8 weeks, from start to finish. Overall, the crop was harvested successfully with both yield and quality satisfactory, given the late sowing, late harvest and difficult weather at harvest. Highland Grain met its tonnage target and has sufficient quantity of the right quality to meet its pre-harvest orders entirely, and with some to spare.
