The west has fire after fire, and is running out of water for both communities and the main produce production zones for the nation. The mountain west had snow this week, the plains have floods and tornadoes and hail, the upper Midwest and northeast (including us) are swathed in Mordor-like gloom with rain every other day, and the southeast is getting a bit of all of the above. Yesterday’s initial forecast, when announced back on Tuesday, was for a medium chance of tornadoes and hail. Not rain or mist or thunderstorms, but weather potentially so extreme there’s nothing we can even do about it. Thankfully, conditions shifted and let us off the hook,...
farmingGeorge’s Fobbing Farm UpdateBreakdownsHarvest is over. And thank goodness for that. For anyone who follows me on Instagram, the very lack of social media content speaks volumes as to the difficulty of the past few weeks.2021 seems to have occurred with barely a Summer to speak of, and this has made harvest this year tricky. With regards to wheat, in order for it to keep well in a grain store it is imperative that the grain is dry and cool, to ensure that bugs and disease don’t ruin the crop.Here in South Essex, getting the crop in dry is very rarely an issue. It needs to be under 14.5% moisture, and we regularly harvest between...