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Lockdown birding

Last month I wrote the notes on a sunny day while praying for a calm dry spell to allow us to get on with the spring barley and bean...

Angle grinding hoodies

I am writing these notes on a gloriously sunny morning, with a cloudless sky, while watching Whiskey and Coco searching out blades of...

Industrial Storms

The lovely dry, bright weather of the last 10 days has been rather brutally punctuated by Storm Ciara. We were fortunate to escape with...

Kicking tyres..

Since the last notes, the weather has become slightly more cheery and rainfall has eased off a bit. We are still failing to get any...

Damp fields and Direct Deere

Yet again I am so grateful to be living and farming in the driest part of the country! At times over the last month it hasn’t necessarily...

Luke's Little Summer?!

Last month I was concerned at the lack of rain delaying sowing and germination of rape and cover crops. What a change a month can bring....

Dry legumes and sleeping deer

The current period of high-pressure dominance has given holiday makers some wonderful sunny days but trying to establish rape and new...

Mid-harvest musings

Harvest is progressing well with sunny breezy days interspersed with showers. The Met Office forecasts on my phone have been fairly...

Purring doves

Changeable but basically warm and dry weather has continued to push crop development along at a fair pace. The rain which spoilt some of...