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3rd September 2007
Work went fairly well yesterday. Early in the morning before the Sunday drivers were out in force, Laurence took the combine harvester across to Normandy, near Guildford. The header (cutting bar) is removed from the combine and placed on a trailer which is towed by tractor.  Thankfully the field of wheat which we saw for the first time in weeks, was still in good condition and 60 acres were harvested. We had to keep away from one corner of the first field because it's an area where one or two of the Foot and Mouth cattle had run to when spooked by the sights and sounds the herd being culled.

Hauling the grain back to Wotton and tipping the load into the grain store takes about an hour and a half and because we are two tractors down at present, it meant the combine was filling quicker than the empty trailers were returning.

The crop was yielding just over 3 tonnes/acre which on our soil is not too bad (the soils of East Anglia could yield well over 4 tonnes/acre).

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