I'm back from the Netherlands to resume the contest with Catfink. I will write a bit about my travels at the weekend.
I'm have concluded that the reason that I'm not getting as many readers as Tim is that I'm just not giving you enough potato statistics. So here are a few more.
Field 3 averaged 17.09 tonnes of saleable potatoes to the acre. Field 4 was the worst so far at 14.54. We had to stop harvesting the Nicola in field 5 because of the inch of rain on Tuesday and have started using the Standen Vision (with the RS cleaner) in field 6. The yield here is appalling; it was the field that suffered the most from the summer's rain. I will be amazed if it yields over 10 tonnes to the acre and I won't be suprised if it as low as 7 or 8 tonnes. Progress was very slow and difficult today, everywhere is looking messy and I feel completely knackered. More moaning tomorrow, that should help to hang on to all the new readers.
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