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The article focuses on the effect of the dry season on farms in Lincolnshire, England. It notes that crops have been slow to take up applied nitrogen and more tillers than usual have been dropped in an effort to sustain growth. Wildlife is also affected by the lack of rainfall. It mentions that dry slugs have been coming up on heavy land.

Presents updates on farming in Lincolnshire, England as of September 2005. List of crops grown at Easton Lodge; Number of finishers being market by a breeder/finisher pig unit each year; Information on the arable farm Sacrewell Lodge.

Compares the crop gross margins for harvest in 2004 with the five-year average yield at the Easton Lodge arable farm in Lincs, England. Results of harvest on winter barley, peas and sugar beet; Factor that led to the reduction in area allocated to sugar beet; Impact of the loss of International Annealed Copper Standard payments on the gross margin figures.

Discusses the state of the Easton Lodge farm in Lincs, England and the plans for the farm in 2005. Hectares of land at Easton Lodge that will be harvested for wheat and barley in 2005; Acres of set-aside and uncropped land in the farm; Actions taken by the farm manager at Easton Lodge to address the issue on established regenerated set-aside land in the farm.

Provides information on a family-owned portfolio of Grade 1 silt farmland in Lincolnshire, England that will be launched by Brown & Co. Retirement of the senior directors of the land; Description of the main block of the land; Average acres of the land that were under eligible crops; Overall price of the land.

Reports on the harvest yields at Sacrewell and Easton Lodge in Lincs, England in 2004. Improvement in the yields at Sacrewell Lodge; Average wheat harvest at Easton Lodge; Wheat variety assessment.