Cultivating New Farms in the Hardest Conditions of Our Lives
The cultivations roll on, and this week we push onto the new farms we have taken on, working some of the hardest, driest ground the team has ever seen, hard enough to snap subsoiler legs at walking pace. With no proper rain in sight, we face a genuine roll of the dice, whether to gamble on drilling our expensive hybrid rape seed straight into the dust now, as our Australian friends would, or hold our nerve and wait for the heavens to open.There is real momentum too, with the two new 18 metre drills arriving any day, and we run through how the drilling teams will work once the weather finally…
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