Life on the pea harvest

Absolutely glorious morning in Suffolk today. It’s really a perfect July summer morning, not a single cloud in the sky, dew overnight so things are just fresh at this time of day.

You can also see from the photo, Doris in a field of barley that’s been harvested. Spring barley is probably nearly finished in this part of the world now. The weather’s looking good for the rape harvest too, it should start sometime midweek, maybe sooner. All this type of weather means things are looking good for these types of crops…

Reflecting on the week gone by, it looks like we’ve produced another eight-thousand tonnes of peas with a mixture of garden peas and petits pois, so quite a successful week really. It’s not been quite as busy as I’d like in the north anyway, but we spoke about that yesterday and hopefully things will pick up this week. It’s getting busy otherwise, in the south we’ve been busy right from the start, so no let up really.

Looking forward to the week ahead, there’s pretty much lots of routine stuff to do everyday, but on tuesday we’ve got the people from the advertising agency who we use (no doubt you’ve seen the latest campaign) comming to look for ideas for the next one with us. Then, towards the end of the week we continue the value-chain analysis with the people from the Cardiff business school.

It’s going to be a busy week, hopefully we’ll produce ten-thousand tonnes of peas, looking forward to it:-)

Catch you later.