Talking arable

As I write, it feels like the calm before the storm. Usually around this time we would be flat out with T2’s on wheat, but that will not take long this year and we are now playing a waiting game for the spring cereals.

The thing about being a columnist for a national publication such as Arable Farming is you cannot hide from what you have written in previous months.

By the end of February we’d had nearly one metre of rain over the previous twelve months and well over 100 days of recordable rainfall since the intended start of drilling in late September.

The latest safe sowing dates for the various winter crops I had optimistically hoped we would get an opportunity to drill are fast approaching and will soon be a distant memory, probably without a wheel ever turning.

With the weather having being kinder to us since the turn of the year, significant progress has been made on two fronts.

I would like to start this month’s article by wishing everyone a Happy New Year, a year which I hope will be significantly more stable in terms of both weather and political shenanigans.