Lammas day?

delilah

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Neighbour was going to be having a get together tomorrow to harvest his half acre of heritage wheat, he has just cancelled it as he has been pinged for covid. The Lord moves in very modern ways.
 

Boysground

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Wiltshire
Used to have a very religious farmer neighbour, he always celebrated lamas. The start of harvest, he liked having a loaf made with his own wheat. In the days of soissons he would be trying to harvest it in July for an early premium. Also played with min till and dd long before it was fashionable.

He was a top bloke.

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Bury the Trash

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Mixed Farmer
yes thats what i did a time or 2 way back got the early few pound better price maybe a a tenner ish i had forgotten about that, soissons was quality as well, not milling tho not quite here nor so high a yield as main wheats .

Lammas old word for bread ? anyway, harvest time optimum summer time , pinnicle sort of style,

Theres a small farm i know of that (used to be) called 'Lammas close ' farmer sold up and new owners when they bought it changed the name :rolleyes:.
 

Exfarmer

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Location
Bury St Edmunds
I was a little surprised at this but will listen to the wisdom. I find it hard to believe that you could find wheat fit to cut and mill by the first of August in this country except in very exceptional seasons..
I am of course talking about old varieties and using sickles. The traditional harvest month was September, when they lead the wheat in from the stooks.
You certainly cannot grind corn which is not fit and dry.
 

Boysground

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Wiltshire
I suspect like many other church dates it’s slightly made up. I often complain that our church harvest festival is before I have finished harvest.

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puntabrava

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Location
Wiltshire
Used to have a very religious farmer neighbour, he always celebrated lamas. The start of harvest, he liked having a loaf made with his own wheat. In the days of soissons he would be trying to harvest it in July for an early premium. Also played with min till and dd long before it was fashionable.

He was a top bloke.

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The contractor I first worked for used to DD his rape in 80’s.
 

jendan

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
I was a little surprised at this but will listen to the wisdom. I find it hard to believe that you could find wheat fit to cut and mill by the first of August in this country except in very exceptional seasons..
I am of course talking about old varieties and using sickles. The traditional harvest month was September, when they lead the wheat in from the stooks.
You certainly cannot grind corn which is not fit and dry.
It was always cut early with a Binder though,and then finished off ripening in the stook.
 

Exfarmer

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Location
Bury St Edmunds
Looking further, it seems that it has also been a tradition to bless a lamb at this time in church. It was in the post war period that blessing a loaf appeared.
Of course in Southern Europe the cropping is far earlier and new grain would have been freely available.
 

Treecreeper

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Livestock Farmer
The secondary flush or growth on trees and shrubs and brambles was always known as Lammas growth. Seems to be a bit earlier this year.
Now is the time to trim the beech hedge in the garden.
 

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