Farming News – October 2024

Tractor

This has been a strange year, 6 dark, wet months followed by 3 dry, droughty months. This has enabled most crops to be harvested, but the weather pendulum appears to be swinging back towards rain.

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Farming News – September 2024

Tractor

As you read this, you will have noticed how the nights are drawing in. The light nights are slipping away quicker in the autumn than they arrived in the spring, which, I think, is due to the tilt in the polar axis.

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Farming News – August 2024

Tractor

The winter barley has now been harvested and the straw baled. I started to use the combine harvester on the 3rd Friday in July, but I had to stop after 50 metres because a bearing on the return’s auger had seized and it took 20 hours of work to replace it.

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Farming News – March 2024

Tractor

This has been the wettest winter of the 50 that I have been farming. It is mostly dry in the lambing sheds where I have buckets to catch rain which drips through holes in the roof and can be used to water the sheep in their pens.

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Farming News – Febuary 2024

Tractor

The recent request from the council asking farmers to clear the roads of drifts in times of heavy snowfall reminds me of the last time that the village was isolated by drifts, in excess of seven feet!

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