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The main cash crop apart from sugar beet, was wheat this was sown usually after a break crop of grass as in the Norfolk four coarse rotation of Roots Barley Seeds Wheat , Wheat stooked in the field and left for 2 church bells ( ten to fourteen days) before...
I read the Farmers Weekly, ov read it all me life, Read it in the good times, and read it through the strife, In its words and pictures, brings us all the news, Tells us of our leaders, n' tells us of their views. This farm could double its output...
First year farming in my own right 1961 Out to daytime pastures, to distant fields to graze, Back again for milking on long fine summer days, Just dug out an old diary from just fifty years ago, and on looking at the page where I recorded the June Returns...
Well to be honest it did rain yesterday, a reet heavy down pour for a few minuets most of which ran off. Up to now we haven't had a Drop (rain) Me cows are out on grass, and the pastures burning up, The brook is running low, soon be nothing left to...
The brakes were none existent, and rims they had a dent, And wobbled as I rode it, and the wheels they were bent. When ever cattle were move up the road to another field, or when they were first turned out in spring, the younger stock always broke into...
Is this normal, is it what everybody goes through, or am I wearing out quicker than everyone else. Passed Another Mile Stone I have passed another mile stone, each year it is the same, Birthday's come and birthdays go, the excitement's getting...
The tractor getting worn and old, its steering getting stiff, On every blooming corner, became a bigger loop and if Only it would straiten up, and not run corn down, Father on the binder would be warring his worst frown. One foot was still in a loop of...
When father came to Seighford, he grew a lot of wheat, He built it into corn ricks along the stack yard neat, Started at bottom getting wider up to eves, Then narrow off to great tall point, all built out of sheaves. The main cash crop apart from sugar...