The Wicken Estate hosted a visit by some of the team from McCain's Whittlesea Factory this week. The idea was to bring the growing and processing teams together to learn about each other's experience to produce potatoes for the McCain food businesses. #norfolkpotatoes #growingpotatoes #norfolkfarmers #norfolkfarming #norfolkagriculture #mccaingrower The Whittlesea Team discussing potato varieties in field

Ready….steady…let’s go! Harvest 2026 at The Wicken Estate is a go. Here is a little footage of the team in action. #norfolkfarming #harvest2026 #feedthenation

Across the UK the temperatures are rising this week. The farm team are all working hard to get crops irrigated so they can continue to grow despite the heat. The sun is also making all vegetation across the farm grow. None more so than on some of our ponds. So we took the opportunity to get the waders on and give one of the ponds a little TLC. The main issue is the amount of vegetation that had grown across the pond. Left to go undeterred, this could actually kill the aq