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The plough arrives

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Zoomed through Back Field with the combine.  Sadly it only yielded 1T per acre.  Which is rather disappointing as a good crop of organic wheat will produce twice this and a field of conventional wheat often does over 4T/acre.

The moisture was over 20% so this adds insult to injury; but I'm glad we cracked on, as now the grass can be sown. Today the plough is here (see photo) attracting hundreds of seagulls (but somehow I only seem to have photographed one!)seagull

Our other field of wheat (Ainderby Road) was combined on the same day and produced nearly 2T per acre so we're happy about that.  There is no rush to plough this field as it will have a spring crop (beans.) 

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