Farmer Focus: An Autumn to Lift the Spirits
Apologies should be handed out sparingly, which is why I’m not about to row back on what I said in my previous piece about the prevailing pessimism in the farming community.
However, it is hard not to feel upbeat about the conditions we’ve been blessed with this autumn. Although it has been dry, we were able to half-work our winter wheat fields to a false seedbed, retaining the moisture from any shower we did have.
This delivered a decent flush of weeds before a final cultivation pass ahead of sowing. We delayed sowing our bean and wheat bicrop until the middle of October to lessen the risk of the beans becoming too proud or diseased before winter.
See also: Why vegetables are making a return to Kent arable farm
Author's summary: Autumn conditions bring optimism to the farming community.
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