Thank you. It worked out perfectly and all came in dry, just need some nice weather to get the spring barley now, it's still not quite ripe. Forecast is looking good for early September.
I agree with you entirely on your thoughts about spraying wheat. When you think about it food staples like potatoes and bread are eaten everyday and are sprayed before harvest. In my opinion less sprays less incidences of cancer and Alzheimer’s.
100% with you on the glyosphate on anything in the food chain! I use it but only round the yard really. I know a farmers daughter who went off to uni in the early 80's and ended up working at the old crop research center in Warwickshire (now the uni that Wardy has featured with his bean trials). She told me that everyone who worked there would only eat organic, very telling................. Looks like you will be ok for straw? its thin on the ground and making a premium a bit further up country from you.
We do use chemicals but I think generally we have all become way too reliant on them and its become the answer to every problem. Hopefully have enough straw, we have bought some extra barley and wheat straw, hopefully the wheat will be cut soon.
We’ve been in Padstow this last week and I wondered if you might be harvesting, weather was fantastic, best we’ve had for a few years - good to see the barley in the shed safe 👍
It was a lovely week, just shame we haven't had many of them, it's been a cold catchy summer! I love Padstow, we go quite often, one of my favourite places in Cornwall.
good to see you got a good crop.......such variations around this year cos of flooded ground etc. we buy quite a bit of straw and the price is up a bit but i wonder if it needs to be up as some crops look very good and i think the spring barley should yield a fair bit of straw more than some years when it's a dry spring and summer
Thank you, yes I think the price of the straw has definitely been talked up, I know of some growers that have baled the straw and put it in their own sheds hoping it will go up more in the winter.
As a non farming type, i don't understand you have to wear all the PPE etc & the skull & crossbones associated with Roundup and then spray the crops immediately prior to harvest, surely some of it must get into the food chain ????
