Biggest is the combine harvester. You se them starting off working in the south of England and work their way north as crops ripen. I don’t mean that equipment used in Kent get up North, it’s probably region by region. Other products like apples are probably the same.
Allan Campbell
For a farmer to have his own machinery is not on due to the purchase cost so hired in but you do get a group of farmers having their own type of co-operative. A combine cost is these days around £250,000. As We travel I often see expensive machinery stored in barns and a lot of combines.
We se in France the machinery that they use to get in the grapes or cherries very fancy items.
For the last few years the theft of farm equipment had rocketed so it’s not wise to have your own equipment.
I watched a programme a few weeks ago and there is a very precise time to harvest say corn, wheat etc. and it’s something to do with I think the water content in that harvesting could not start until the crop had dried out a bit. So no start at 7 am more like 11 am and went on into the night.
In September we will be staying at a caravan site which has just been taken over by one of the young Carr-Ellisons, yes the Hebburn family of old. We bought meat from the main farm early March. They do cattle, sheep, pigs as well as crops. So a few interesting conversation to take place as the family are still interested in Hebburn from a family history point of view.
I told the chap what I knew about Ellison Hall as my Grandfather was involved with it as were others that come on the board. He was going to pass it on to his father who is looking into their family’s history.
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