Photos from the Farmers Weekly collection which is held by the Musuem of English Rural Life at Reading. For more pictures from the collection visit http://bit.ly/merlpics
20 total photos Last updated on Thu, Oct 22 2009
There might be a big debate under way at the moment over sugar beet prices, but drilling at the right time into a good seed-bed has always been critical. This picture was taken (and farmers and growers picked up vital pointers) at a beet drilling demo in May 1951 in Norfolk.