According to a chap from Andersons the consultant people - on most combinable crop farms, break crops are unprofitable, winter wheat is the one for profit and a first one at that. He was saying that most farms rather than trying to set spring rape etc. following the wet weather last backend, would have been better fallowing to get the best entry for 1st wheat this autumn. Seemed like even winter OSR, was marginal for profit at best. So to keep margins up, shed some machinery and fallow some of the acerage each year. Also direct drill the wheat, after a pass with a straw harrow. Hire in one tractor for autumn drilling, have a mid-range tractor of your own, a sub-soiler, a sprayer, fertiliser spreader (the latter two as big as poss. to get product on in the least ammount of time) and get someone in to do the combining or share with a neighbour. Ensure all kit uses precision famrning technologies to magange everything you are doing. Chop all straw and return to the land to improve soil structure etc. Put un-productove headlands, field corners and even odd-fields into agri-environemtal schemes and then you might get a decent return on investment. To help this lock some of your tomnnage into forward contracts, look for added value contracts and look into hedging/options etc. to manage risk. Could join a co-op and let them market your grain instead, as they will probably do a better job and if you let them dry/store it, you won't have to invest big sums to store grain and can put your buildings to a more profitable use. Also with them being able to blend batches etc., they should get a better price for you. With only one crop type to look after each year, you can do the best job by it re. timelinesss etc. and at certain times of the year actually take some holiday and/or do something with your time that pays a better rate per hour than your farming ;-)