rape BARLEY wheat

Posted by on June 8, 2012

The weather here lurches from high summer to dramatic wind and rainstorms. At least the water table is a little recharged. The farmers will be pleased.

The Manton formation is the first in barley. The first barley formation is often portentous; it sometimes carries a hint of the quality we might expect during the season. This reassures me. Manton was confident, beautifully made and quite large.

First barley also signals goodbye to Oilseed Rape. The bright golden fields are gone and, while the plants are not yet harvested, the yellow blossom has ended which means no more Rape circles this year. The wheatfields are developing. I imagine we will have a wheat formation either in the last days of June or the first days of July.