Wet summer weather affects harvest for many Midlands farmers

Farmers across the region are working flat out to make sure they catch up after delays in being able to harvest.

The changeable weather throughout the year has caused a range of problems meaning there's plenty of work still left to do.

It means there are fields of crops across our region waiting to be harvested, and not much time left for the regions' farmers to harvest it.

Poor weather has left many farmers unable to harvest until now - figures from the Home Grown Cereals Authority show that just over half of wheat crops have been harvested so far, when normally they'd expect up to 90% to be done by this point.

That coupled with quality concerns mean it's not been the best year.

The hard work for farmers will continue - getting the best out of their crops that they can. As the turnover continues hope that maybe next year the weather will be a bit more predictable.