Mulika hagberg

cotswold farmer 1977

Never Forgotten
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With the recent hot spell my Mulika has ripened nicely, not fit but some hard some soft grains, it now looks s###e for the next ten days, how long will the hagberg stay above 250? Thoughts please
 

Simon Chiles

DD Moderator
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With the recent hot spell my Mulika has ripened nicely, not fit but some hard some soft grains, it now looks s###e for the next ten days, how long will the hagberg stay above 250? Thoughts please

Three points to note:-
1) It doesn’t really matter, there is nothing you can do to stop it raining and worrying about it won’t help you in this situation.
2) Never believe a weather forecast for any more than four days ahead and often not even that long.
3) Finally a contractor friend of mine ( a proper contractor who did everyone else’s first and his own last ) one year cut his crop of Soissons in November and it still retained its hagberg.
 

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