Picture story: Farmers push on with fieldwork





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Potato harvesting, ploughing, discing and drilling are the order of the day on the FWiSpace picture galleries.


Farmers continue to upload pictures to their own galleries or submit them to fwipictures@rbi.co.uk for inclusion on the open Cultivations Corner gallery.


Here is a taster:


Drilling


Tobias Beeching drilling winter wheat in his Massey Ferguson 6480 at WG & TA Manford’s Hinxden Farm Dairy, Kent.


potato harvesting


Sue Morgan took this picture showing a Reekie harvester working rising potatoes at Llan Farm, Dorstone. This field was waterlogged in July so they have got a smaller crop than usual.


discs


It’s a long way to the front. A Magnum pulling a cultivation train – a set of 4.5m simba discs and 4.6m press rollers. Picture from David Hume at Milfield, Northumberland.


west tisted UGC


John Norris from Hants sent in this picture which he took with a box brownie in 1964 when he was just 13 years old. Taken at Manor Farm and Stud, West Tisted, now known as West Tisted Manor estate, it shows John’s father Bill Norris working alongside the now late Les Stroud, John Lee and Bill Cole. John and his father still live on the estate – where his mother also worked for many years. Sadly she passed away earlier this month – John asked us to publish this picture in memory of her


To see other reader picture visit the picture galleries. Also catch up with the latest news, views and thoughts from other producers in the discussion area (forums).
 

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