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Cloudy with a few spits and spots of rain.

Now dry, sunny and breezy here.

I've washed my 'smalls'.....................

Went on one of my 'Rural Rides' yesterday evening. Several bits of winter barley now done, and most oilseed rape sprayed off. Amazing just how quick the wheats are beginning to turn. Wouldn't be surprised to see some wheat done before the end of July. Spring barley, in the main, looks poor. Sugar be...

Bit of rain here this morning. Not a lot as yet, by sky looks grey. Think it might rain some more before too long.

Another sunny and warm day

Saw a gretol chunk of winter barley which had been knocked down between Dry Drayton and Hardwick yesterday.

Also a field of what looked like winter sown linseed being cut near Royston yesterday evening.

Got a couple of fields of WB they discovered today, one's ready at 13% because of the chalk and the other way over near greenham common on gravel is at 11%! so we have chucked all the covers and guards on the combine and are aiming to do them on monday-Tuesday, then I can try and get the irrigation...

Sunny and warm here today. Lovely summers day.

Got a couple of fields of WB they discovered today, one's ready at 13% because of the chalk and the other way over near greenham common on gravel is at 11%! so we have chucked all the covers and guards on the combine and are aiming to do them on monday-Tuesday, then I can try and get the irrigation...

NQIT wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 11, 2019 8:55 pm

Combine going near here today in barley. For an hour. It's 18%! Its July 11th. FFS go away for a week. That's what Raggy would do.

And he would be right to do so!!!!

Hazy sunshine and humid here this morning.

Sun beginning to break through the clouds. Slight breeze at the moment.

Went on one of my 'Rural Rides' yesterday. Here's a question. Now that crops are beginning to ripen, I have noticed a pronounced increase in the area of winter barley being grown. Has winter barley come back into fashion? Or is there now a bigger market for it? And is it malting or feed winter barl...

Went on one of my 'Rural Rides' yesterday. Here's a question. Now that crops are beginning to ripen, I have noticed a pronounced increase in the area of winter barley being grown. Has winter barley come back into fashion? Or is there now a bigger market for it? And is it malting or feed winter barle...

A bit cloudy at the moment, but the sun looks as if it will break through.

Then a lovely summers day beckons.....................