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Saw my first two ploughed fields Tuesday evening, took a more rural trip home crime work this evening and lost count due to poor sight of field boundaries and oncoming traffic at around a dozen.

Thus I think the farm harvest seems to be on track, mostly oilseed rape.

Oilseed Rape combining is under way again around here this afternoon...after a hold up at the last attempt with blocked up and bogged in combines....

Clive.

OIl seed rape right across a footpath. Now harvested leaving a forest of hard stubble and ploughsoil. Rights of way warden informed but I'm not holding my breath.

Bramble tendrils growing right across a housing estate pathway, council informed and as above I'm still not holding my breath.

Tap replaced for a larger threaded one down the allotments, now nothing fits or I can buy a larger tap to get an adapter for £15:00!

WHY, WHY, WHY ?

Cheers, Tony.

Harvesting Rape well into the night here, desperately trying to get it in before the weather changes I guess

VPM
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Oilseed Rape not yet ripe enough to cut north of the county but 40 miles south in the county it is. Winter sown Barley harvested throughout county and OSR harvesting beginning in the south but held up by the weather at present. all bales removed and fields are being scarified at present prior to minimum tilling this year.
Spring sown Barley is a very fine crop here this year.
I suppose the it will all end up with the usual flurry of activity with fingers crossed. All Hay and Haylage gathered in but some is so poor as to have no fodder use and is going to the local log merchant to be burnt for his drying kilns. Very good logs and as a matter of interest they put 18 tons of logs into the kiln and when dried the weight coming out is 12 tons.
JB.