4.00pm - Sunday 25th October 2026 28,422

After one of the driest autumns on record, the rain has finally arrived, 21mm in a day, and with the drilling done it is a rare moment to enjoy. The crops are a real picture, and the oilseed rape in particular, which caused so much worry earlier in the year, has turned into a genuine game changer. In this episode we walk the emerging wheat, barley and rape, including the hybrid wheat trial, and are honestly delighted with how it looks corner to corner.

The big story, though, is electricity. Our total bill has now topped £200,000 a year, with a single meter seeing a £54,000 jump, and a huge share of it is not even the power we use but standing and capacity charges, which has us deeply regretting ever moving to half hourly meters. We explain the drastic steps we are now weighing up, from battery storage and a much bigger export cap to disconnecting outlying farms entirely, and why we are reinvesting in a second colour sorter in the grain hospital to become more efficient per kilowatt.

We also walk the fields scarred by the water main and archaeological works, where the damage could last decades, look over some old farm buildings we hope to convert, and finish with an honest word on a grain market that stubbornly keeps falling. From the first green shoots to the fight against spiralling costs, this is another look behind the scenes of a modern farming business.

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:19 Putting everything away, and a £200,000 bill
1:51 Battery storage and a bigger export cap
2:30 Rain at last, and the crops coming up
4:44 The rape is a game changer
6:06 Servicing and clearing out the workshop
6:53 Inside the grain hospital: the colour sorter
10:56 A clever plan for a second colour sorter
16:16 Should we invest, or hold off?
20:44 Landscaping, and extending the shed
21:57 Filling the fertiliser tanks
24:00 Walking the rape and the hybrid wheat
29:07 Rectory Farm and the buildings to convert
30:26 Decades of damage from the water main
35:55 The grain market and the electricity sting
39:20 Rain, half term, and off to ride a horse

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