Posted in Countryside of the Yorkshire Wolds on Aug 23rd, 2008 3 Comments »
We finally managed to harvest the field of barley.
We had to leave one small corner because the rain started again.
It’s still raining and the ground is very wet and muddy. Usually at this time of year it’s dry and easy to walk on.
We still have fields of wheat to harvest. We are hoping the sun [...]
Posted in General on Aug 16th, 2008 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Countryside of the Yorkshire Wolds on Aug 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Last week I wrote this about harvesting the corn
Our corn was ready for harvesting. On the 31 July we managed to get a few hours of combining done.
We have not harvested any corn since the 31 July. The corn is ready but we are unable to harvest it because it has rained so much.
You can [...]
Posted in Countryside of the Yorkshire Wolds on Jul 31st, 2008 No Comments »
The day has arrived. Since planting the corn we have been waiting for this day. The corn is ready.
So harvest was here today for two or three hours. Then it rained.
But an hour or two ago the combine had roared into action.
Everyone knew what jobs they had to do.
The corn has to be dry to [...]
Posted in General on Jul 25th, 2008 No Comments »
The harvest ripens week by week. The photo below was taken last week.
Here are the photographs I took this week
See how the corn is slowly changing to a golden yellow.
There is a buzz in the air on the farm as we are getting all the machinery ready for the harvest. Jobs are getting done, the [...]
Posted in General on Jul 17th, 2008 No Comments »
Every week for the past three weeks I have been taking photographs of corn ripening.
The photo on the left was taken last week. The larger photo on the right was taken today. You can see how the corn has ripened during the past 7 days.
