Oliveau
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- Location
- Indre et Loire, France
I have a very unhappy neighbour here in Central France. The contractor's Lexion 770 has 600 ha of wheat to do & isn't going to get back here for a while, Plus one of the drivers is hospitalised at the moment [I volunteered to come out of retirement!], He's busy trying to line up another contractor as our 10 day forcast is 'merde'.What wheat he has cut is doing about 6t, as opposed to a good average here of 8t. Reported as 'Catastrophe' {That's Catastroff as opposed to Catastrophee.] He puts it down to a dry April, very hot late June, then storms which have flattened the crop. It didn't help that I said "When I was young we could get down to laid crops with a 10ft header, but now with your 40' header you have to go over the top of it."