Watch: Farmer uses bite test to assess wet grain

Farmer Eleanor Gilbert says one of the UK's wettest Julys has left her struggling to make a profit from this year's harvest.

Inside her drying shed near Thatcham in Berkshire, she demonstrates a device that monitors the moisture in crops, plunging the reader into a vast pile of grains.

But it's the "bite test" that truly confirms the state of things.

2 August 2023