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Barley harvest started.
- Thread starter An Gof
- Start date
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Harvest started on love island! Some straw bales in the background tonight.
- Location
- South Molton
Or in flames?Steady on. A claas would be blocked by now
That's 1976
- Location
- West Suffolk
- Location
- Sedgefield
Barley harvest.... Phutt !!
Got me all revved up .... Only to find its for crimping..... That doesn't count !!!!
Got me all revved up .... Only to find its for crimping..... That doesn't count !!!!
I had resolved, curlietailz, not wanting to bring the wrath of the spectre of 1976 down on this year's yields, not to start until after the 30th.
But, records are sure made only to be broken.
So, I think we'll start on the 29th now, go for some real record lows and hope to finish, this time, in July (3rd August in 1976).
I had resolved, curlietailz, not wanting to bring the wrath of the spectre of 1976 down on this year's yields, not to start until after the 30th.
But, records are sure made only to be broken.
So, I think we'll start on the 29th now, go for some real record lows and hope to finish, this time, in July (3rd August in 1976).
Is it really that bad in mid & N Devon?
- Location
- West Suffolk
I’d never heard of crimping till I came on here.
Funnily enough, An Gof, we had several years like this one back in the 70s.
In fact, the 1981 edition of the Phillip's World Atlas for Schools had a strip between Dartmoor and Exmoor coloured in as "Continental Dry Summer".
Same as parts of Kurdistan and Kazakhstan.
Of course, the 80s and 90s and 00s had their revenge, but this one's getting quite like old times.
Funnily enough, An Gof, we had several years like this one back in the 70s.
In fact, the 1981 edition of the Phillip's World Atlas for Schools had a strip between Dartmoor and Exmoor coloured in as "Continental Dry Summer".
Same as parts of Kurdistan and Kazakhstan.
Of course, the 80s and 90s and 00s had their revenge, but this one's getting quite like old times.
Wet summer or dry summer, I know which one I would choose!
Yes it is that bad . We are based in mid Devon right by the A30 , and wheat is dying on its feet now, no moisture in the soil and flag leaf shrinking by the day and another hot week coming in the forecast. Straw will be short here.
Same here, but hopefully not quite as short as it was in 1976, when the then farmer of one of our current fields called his baling contractor back in because he'd missed several rows, painstakingly marking them all up with red flags and then watching carefully on for the half hour or so it took him to bale up another 3 (small) bales.
- Location
- SG9
Sorry I cant give into that idea as I remember 1975 it snowed and covered on the 2nd of June. and even I had started harvest by the end of July.
dannewhouse
Member
- Location
- huddersfield
pigeons have started on my barley harvest! that's the progress so far!
gas guns out now!
gas guns out now!
Donkey Oaty
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
You must be getting old if you are noticing the bales!!
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
I know! There are more interesting things to see. Was shocked when I saw a bale in the background! Bet the baler driver stopped for his lunch next to the villa.
dannewhouse
Member
- Location
- huddersfield
the straw … well and the grain!!!well its barley and its being harvested what more do you want
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
if he is a moron.