I have been away in the Highlands of Scotland for the past week and so have got a bit behind with updates to the blog! (I will post some photos later.)
Time keeps moving on, as they say, and the field beside our farm where we got straw for the winter has been ploughed and sown with winter barley for next years harvest.
Two tractors pulling 9 furrows between them make short work of the field.
The forecast is for rain, so the seed is sown directly after the plough, and the ploughs will never get more than about 4 passes ahead of the seeder, so that even if it rains there is always dry soil to sow into.
Just to prove that it is a neighbouring field!
The weather has been so mild this autumn, that within a week the barley was through, and well on it's way to being a good crop for next year.
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