Fen Peas

We completed drilling on Lincoln Heath last week, and have now moved across to Tattershall, Toynton and into the Fens. Even though it has been fairly cold, there is some growth. There have been up to five drills going, drilling Twinkle, Jaguar, Meridian and Premio, which all have different maturity dates and will hopefully give us a good spread at harvest. There is one problem looming on the horizion, and that is delivery of seed. Some seed was due to arrive from New Zealand at the end of this month. It now looks as though this will be two weeks late. This will cause some complications with the drilling programme, but is not impossible to get round. Over the last few years with companies looking ever more closely at costs, seed houses have kept their stocks down to a minimum. With the wet harvest here last autumn, and a late harvest in New Zealand, pressure has been put on stocks. There is barely enough to go round. It does just go to show yet again, how fragile our food supply can be.