Fen Peas

Something we are not used to, a hill! Makes a change from the flat fenland. Harvesting Twinkle at Scrafield brings us to the end of our first earlies. There will now be a gap of a few days before we start again on 450 acres in the Midville and Friskney area. So far machines and factories have performed well, as has the "team". Whilst a break at the weekend is good, we all feel that now we are in to the crop, we want to carry on full steam ahead. However if the crop is not ready we cannot harvest. Given that there have been highish temperatures this week the peas are maturing at a slow rate. This may well be due to the lack of moisture. Dare I say it, a good rain would do them all good. On the other side of the coin, they are very good harvesting conditions currently.