Day 17 - A crop revisited
James Young here, still on harvest day 17. I’m just walking in the crop now I said I’d try and follow through its life to the harvest. This crop is planned for the end of the season and it looks like it’s moved on quite a bit since Saturday when I last photographed it. It’s just about to come into flower now and you can just see the flower buds. Little touch of downy mildew but doesn’t look too serious. I think it’s just sprayed for aphids—if they go uncontrolled we would get a low yield, and low quality so we need to try and control those. It’s a good crop, with a good root system.
We’ve had a bit of rain today, but not enough to end the drought. It’s been a busy day at the factory with a few problems. Big day tomorrow.
The grower, who’s field I’m walking across (we grow 9.5-thousand hectares every year across 220 farms) has been planting peas for us since we started in Hull (I mean his family has). We have long-term relationships with our growers and this relationship is very important. Our fieldsmen work very closely with the growers through the year to ensure the ground is prepared right to ensure we get a good crop each time.
So I’ll send a photo through of how the field is looking tonight…
Other photos in this series include one of Molly, my dog (I end the day with a walk with Molly) I notice that Colin has been uploading snaps of Doris and I think Molly would be jealous, so here you go Molly:-)
