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Rod

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The farmer harvested his wheat yesterday:

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and left us with a present!
The photo was taken on the back of the house, not facing the fields.
Fortunately we managed to shut the windows before too much came in but my next door neighbour had some washing out!

Rod
 
I feel genuinely sorry for the poor blokes. They had a bumper crop in the fields around here, and wheat prices were high. Then, when it came to harvest time, it's rained and rained. The quality of the crop goes right down even if they can get it in at all. The field around me still hasn't been harvested. The combines were working until about 1am last night, when the latest downpour started. That'll now take a couple of good drying days to be rid of, and by then there will surely have been another shower.
 
It's been quite windy here in Dorset today and the farm has been a big plume of dust. :|
 
Does make me smile when we are supposed not to use garden machinery on a sunday afternoon or after dusk but the combines and other farm machinery can often be heard well into the small hours.
 
Mike G":2bq8rcwr said:
I feel genuinely sorry for the poor blokes. They had a bumper crop in the fields around here, and wheat prices were high. Then, when it came to harvest time, it's rained and rained. The quality of the crop goes right down even if they can get it in at all. The field around me still hasn't been harvested. The combines were working until about 1am last night, when the latest downpour started. That'll now take a couple of good drying days to be rid of, and by then there will surely have been another shower.
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Surpringly for up here ours managed to get all fields around us done over 3 days last week before the rains came this week.


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Sometimes the fields grow peas and the farmer only harvest at night, I suppose to keep the crop cool.
Afterwards the villagers go scavenging as there's lots of pods left behind. You soon get fed up of a freezer full of peas though.

Rod
 
Yup...wet cereal needs a lot of drying in the barns. Very expensive.

Anyone else noticed how food prices are shooting up? (Bit of a non-sequitur and not related to the first sentence)
 
was at a VW camping weekend at Santa Pod .. late august. and just as we'd all set up .. out come the combines in the field next to us ! :lol: We got a bit itchy that night !
The farmer carried on till the early hours.
 
Few fields with a lot of collapsed wheat around our office. Off on holiday this week, but I wondered if they'd given up on it.
 
Farmer came around yesterday and told us the combines were going to start on the fields around us immediately, and would be behind us by the evening. Ten minutes later, the heavens opened and they all toddled on back to the farmyard. Much of the greying wheat is now lying down.
 
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