Let’s Go…

Already?!?

I’ve never seen harvest this early and even Dad noted that it was rare (3 times in 70 years) for it to have started on my grandfathers birthday – 18th July.

We have some interesting challenges in terms of grain storage this year.  Because the brewery are now installed we don’t have use of our major grain store at all.  That means we will need to sell this barley “off the combine” meaning that just like Clarksons farm it will go into a temporary outdoor heap and be bucketed up into HGV’s as quickly as we can organise them.  We will need that area clear for the wheat (30% sold “off the combine”, the rest stored) and then finally the beans.  We’re expecting a really early harvest this year with the potential of even the Beans being harvested in July (usually early September).  So if you want to see the combines working locally you need to get out there soon.

In other news, we’ve had conversations about removing some legacy grain handling equipment and are in discussions about a regular coffee van at the farm.  More news soon I hope.