Harvest has started

I always try to be well prepared for harvest, but this year the oilseed rape ripened up faster than I expected. Even a mad rush at the end didn't help. We started with only one clean trailer and the combine with still a few small jobs needing to be done to it. The combine ran well, apart from the reel speed being jammed but I got away with that one, and we got a good start.

Unfortunately the rain fell that night and the next morning. However, it did give me the time I needed to finish getting ready. When it dried again, we had three trailers and a fully working reel on the combine. All the oilseed rape is in the shed awaiting the lorries to take it away before the wheats are ready. Don't think I got top price or top yields, but I'm happy with the results.

The weather has now turned wet again, I'm really hoping this isn't a sign of things to come......

Windy and hot weather

After a week of strong winds, the weather has finally changed. For the better? Depends if you like it hot or not?

This week was always going to be busy, with a machinery sale at Drainage Farm and the Cereals show at Boothby Graffoe, which didn't start off very well. The wind didn't drop until late on Monday, but I managed to get two tanks fulls of spraying done.

Tuesday was an early start to get the T3's on the wheats with a break at lunch to look round the machinery sale. Nothing took my fancy, so back to the spraying. With the T3's finished by teatime, I had time in the evening to put some Centurion Max on the sugar beet. Yes, blackgrass again.

Wednesday, I went to Cereals. I was more exhausted walking round the show than I am after a days work. But I learnt a bit, KWS Zyatt milling wheat has been recommended for growing next year and new sprayers are over priced. Oh well, the old Team is still working fine.

Thursday, I remembered what a pain in the arse the sugar beet hoe is to put on the tractor. So by the time I'd got it on greased and blades sharpened, it was 2pm. And so I'm still on beet hoeing this weekend. But the sugar beet does look so much better for doing. The hot weather will help the weeds shrivel up but so is the sugar beet. We need rain!

Let's see what the weather does next week......

How do I blog more?

I haven't posted a blog in 6 months, why?

Am I too busy?
Work on the farm has kept me fairly busy, it was an interesting spring and it seemed I would never get the spring drilling done. First it rained and then it all dried, fast! The spring wheat nearly all got away, just a few bare patches, but the peas and the sugar beet looked like I'd drilled random patches of the field. In fact the beet is only just starting to catch up.
However there have been quiet times too when I wasn't working.....

Am I too lazy?
I wouldn't say I'm lazy, but I can always find other things to do rather than the less exciting jobs. Also I get easily distracted. I've been house hunting, car repairing, and finding other jobs to do, rather than blogging.

Am I just boring?
Well maybe, in my opinion my blog isn't the most exciting. But then again, it my life and that's how it is. House hunting has been interesting and frustrating, and so has car repairing, and don't get me started about the farm. There is always little things to write about, but that's what Facebook is for, isn't it?

So here is a message to myself. You're not too busy at the moment, but in a week or so you will be spraying, then sugar beet hoeing, then it'll be nearly harvest. All interesting stuff, so get your phone out and write a quick blog and tell the world about it!