Re: Beet lifting

Stephen Temple <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>Just finished the maize bunkers. The contractors tell us that they chopped 1550
>tonnes off 52.5 acres. The main bunker is full to scraping the forklift ccab on
>the roof, the secondary bunker is extended 50% by bale walls, then we had to put
>100 tonnes in a field clamp. Variety Apostrof, and a wet summer, for the second
>year running.

I don;t know that variety, but IMHO except for very early varieties, its
a tad early.

Hmm...

Mind you cereal harvest was a couple of weeks early this year.

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