Article of Interest

Timing is Everything
December 2011

Soon after purchasing our first farm a neighbour informed us that we should be wary of working in with the neighbour on the other side when it came to hay making as he nearly always managed to get his hay wet.   It had happened so frequently that it had become part of the local folk lore.

Our observation was that he always planned to cut at the start of a forecasted period of fine weather, but because his gear was stored under old macrocapa trees and had not been serviced since last used it inevitably took two or three days to drag it out and get it functioning again.  By then the next spell of wet weather was closing in and invariably rain arrived before baling.

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Dr Christine Jones
Soil Ecologist

Building new Top-Soil.
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