Craig writes
We’ve started harvesting our barley as well as getting all of the lambs weaned and the weather seems to be staying nice.
After an early start, Saturday morning was spent weaning the lambs off their mothers – all went well apart from a silly ewe that jumped the fence into the neighbouring field.
A strong breeze brought the combine into the first field of spring barley in the afternoon and just as we thought everything was going great, a blockage arose inside the combine. This involved clambering into the main part of the machine to unblock it so we were stopped for a couple of hours.
We were barely started again when we saw the sheep that had escaped run into the burn. With a struggle we got her out and rushed off to tip the load of grain before the combine needed emptied again.
The field got finished, the end-rig was baled and the grain came in about 16% moisture – perfect!