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4th February 2012

We’ve had snow falling for a couple of hours and although it’s settling, it’s nothing significant.  The media build up has been over the top once again, simply because snow is forecast south of the border!  Suggesting that heavy snow will bring a fearful 5 – 10cm and it may be gone by Monday.

Dale and Lee of AutoAgritech, made final repairs to the maize header today

while David and Laurence fixed a puncture on the combine harvester.

Although 75 acres of maize were planted for bird cover last year, much of that has fallen and broken down over winter, but there should still be plenty of corn stripped from the cobs.

Laurence is combining in Homefield at the moment, and it's quite unusual to be harvesting in the snow.

It was also good to see some work begin again in Marshmans and Hammerfield, where contractors finally began baling hemp straw today.  The straw was too damp to be baled after the crop was harvested last year, so it’s remained in the fields to dry and we’ve been unable to sow any winter crops in a number of local fields due to this. 

Although the bulk of each row of straw was picked up by the baler, some of the straw remained frozen to the ground as seen in the foreground of this photo.

One lorry load of hemp straw is going to a power station as fuel and if that goes well, hopefully the remaining fields will soon be baled.