Harvest - August and still waiting
Aug 16th, 2008 by Birdy Trish
It is 14 days since the corn was ready for harvesting.
For those fourteen days there have only been 10 hours when they could combine.
We have had 14 days of wet weather. It has not been raining all the time, but when it rains it leaves the corn too wet to harvest. The sun comes out for a while, then it rains again.
Frustrating summer harvest.
The corn could have been so wonderful.
There have still been other jobs to do. Bringing a few cows in from a small paddock that hasn’t enough grass left for the cows to eat. Milking twice day, looking after the calves and bullocks. It’s never ending!
All I can say is drink British milk and eat British meat!
It seems it has been a really good harvest in other parts of the world. This means, because there is now a lot of corn (wheat), the price we get for our corn will come down. Lets wait and see if the price of bread comes down as well.
The crop in the photographs is barley. We have wheat and barley in our fields. Barley is always combined first.
Here are the photos
Here’s hoping that the sun shines today and we get a go at harvesting the corn. Everyone is hoping that we will be working late into Saturday evening to get the corn in. Then if the sun stays out we will be working all day on Sunday as well.
If it’s a fine sunny day we’ll be working. If it rains we can go out!
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