Martha writes:
At last the weather has dried up enough to start harvest.
On Wykeham Estate, who we rent our farm off - and who my dad contracts for - they have managed to cut 375 acres of oilseed rape with out having to dry any.
This is good because drying costs a lot of money and takes a lot of time.
The combine only got stuck once and it was easily pulled out, and we have managed to bale enough rape straw to bed up the pigs, which will keep them happy for a while.
The estate had a Claas Atles 275 hp tractor delivered to hire for the summer, it will do cultivating and drilling.
I went up the road on my bike and took a photo of it, it looks absolutely massive.
I also went to the steam fair in Pickering, there was lots of old fashioned steam engines, they looked really good all polished and they smelt really nice. They were puffing out loads of smoke.
There was a tractor pulling competition, where all different types of machines try to pull a big heavy sledge thing the furthest.
The steam engine was the best and pulled it the furthest even though it was the oldest.
The fairground rides were really good. My favourite one was the Bounce but it made my sister feel sick.
There was a really good firework display at the end it was a good night out.