Archive Article: 2001/03/23

23 March 2001

Spring work is starting to pile up on most farms with land still too wet to travel for many. Honingham Thorpe Farms near Norwich did drill some Optic spring barley last week. But only 40ha out of 240ha is in and they have yet to start on the farms 400ha of sugar beet, says manager Hamish Farmer. "We need four or five days of decent weather to get on even the lightest land." Potato progress is hardly any better with only 2ha out of a planned 485ha planted. Note: Pictures taken from roadside as farmers weekly remains off-farm during the foot-and-mouth crisis.