Quite a lot of rain for June, and not the warmest…! But that is (nearly!) all forgotten as I sit here on a sunny Thursday morning in 20 degrees! The crops are all in and should be growing this time of year, so the weather hasn’t affected our operations much. The rain has meant we have some enormous-looking crops. The beans and the oats, particularly, are easy to get lost in. Peter actually lost his dog for a time in the beans the other week, which is an unexpected hazard.
However, we get paid for the grain, not the volume and June is a crucial grain filling time. For that, we need sunshine… so the cloudy, cold and wet weather may have affected the yield. We will see – how exciting…!
We hosted Open Farm Sunday at Allerton, where I work, on the 9th June and had a brilliant (if chilly) day. 306 people came to the farm to learn more about what farmers do, take a tractor-trailer ride, see lambs and piglets, and discover the work we do for wildlife around the farm. We are sorry we have not done a farm walk at Meads Farm this spring, but we are keen to host one in the Autumn instead if people are interested, so watch this space!
Other than that, we are just waiting for harvest to roll around come July – more to come then!