It’s been a month now since my last article and frustratingly I have to report that harvest here started badly and got steadily worse. We have only just finished, with yields that have turned out to be my worst overall average for 30 years. As I feared, wheat has been very disappointing, regardless of variety. The general consensus seems to place the blame on poor weather earlier in the year that affected the size of the heads and then further dull weather when it […]
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