Another difficult day
Colin here, we’ve had a bit of a fraught day today.
With another day of temperatures well into the 30s we found the quality of the peas this morning worse than we’d anticipated. The peas just dry out in these conditions and the quality is not good…
As a result, we need to include lower maturity crops which is something we don’t like doing, but we have to in order to maintain the quality.
Next week is a little bit different for me… I’m off to Italy tomorrow (back on wednesday night). I’m going primarily to see customers as we export to italy, but also we’re looking at a new product, vegetable Soya, and we’re looking to grow that in Italy. It’s an exciting project and I’m going to see how that’s progressing. By this time tomorrow I should be in Bologna, so hopefully do some nice photos and let you know how things are going.
Personally, feel a little uncomfortable leaving the harvest situation as it is, the forecast is for continuing hot temperatures well into thursday (on the coast we normally get a cool sea breeze but this time, nothing, just stifling heat…)
We can expect a difficult week, but we’ll tell you about that as we go through.
signing off.
