Harvesting already!

[Mrs B]

Just on my way back from the yard to see the barley field near my house has just been harvested ...

 

[dorsetladette]

The one opposite our place was done 2 weekends ago. It's now coming green again due to the rain and muggy weather we've had. I feel it happens early every year now. The field down the road has had 2 cuts of silage (the stuff they don't bale) off it already this year.

 

[Polos Mum]

I don't think it's massively early. When we lived in Lincolnshire there was always a great rush to make hay before the start of harvest (when help and tractors disappeared) hay was usually mid June so first week July I this is normal ish. Everything was early this year because of the very warm spell early on - weeds had set and were too late for spraying by end of May which is usually OK.

 

[mavandkaz]

Have had tractors past my house non stop since April, and the combine has been seen regularly since early May. The cereal crop at the yard was cut last month.
I presume it's all fairly normal, the difference is that I am now aware of it from working at home

 

[Mrs B]

I guess in my head I still associate the late summer with harvesting from when I was a kid - the autumn-y smell of galloping on the stubble fields before they got burnt ...

 

[cindars]

Big field near us has just been cut and baled for silage.

 

[poiuytrewq]

?‍ I would consider the above very early.
The crops here were a little behind this year due to the awful rain I think.
They are starting here this week.

nb- no idea for silage and hay etc. Don’t consider that harvest, think it’s just done with the weather

 

[poiuytrewq]

Daughter just commented it could be a forager people are seeing rather than combine perhaps?

 

[rabatsa]

For the last 30 years we have always seen the first fields of barley cut when travelling to/from Harrogate for the Great Yorkshire Show. The GYS should have been next week so it is not very early really.

 

[Orangehorse]

Winter barley being harvested. Yes, it is slightly early, or would be around here, but there is always someone on lighter land who gets going first of all.