Jon 3085
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Winter barley still needs a week here.
Although mine looks ready, it really needs a week like you said. It’s variable across the fields, with grain still soft on the heavier soil.Winter barley still needs a week here.
Yes but that's nothing to do with the barleyBarley was starting to turn 2 weeks ago so took the old advice of going on holiday
calling home and they say i may as well stay another 2 weeks ! looking like a late start really
Here in northern Italy barley harvest would normally have started 3 weeks ago, but this year I saw the first combine only yesterday. Wheat is now getting ready fast under this 35°+ heat.
Quite a late year everywhere it seems.
Fancy a "progressive" Farmer like you listening to old wives talesBarley was starting to turn 2 weeks ago so took the old advice of going on holiday
calling home and they say i may as well stay another 2 weeks ! looking like a late start really
@Stewie what is the status of the harvest there? I'm heading to Viareggio next Wednesday and might try and grab around on a combine with my pigeon Italian on the way back on Friday.
You might be a bit late. I am on holiday, but a week ago at home probably 80% had already been cut. This week weather have been bad so maybe you will find someone finishing the last of the wheat.
No actually someone will have already started cultivating. For reference, where I live ploughing matches are traditionally in August.They fairly rattle through it in Italy. Take it they won't start ground work until the autumn, be like concrete.