The Year Round: Cold snap showed value of our heat exchanger

When this is published, I hope the weather at High Wolds Farm has warmed up. Frosts in May can't be good for rape setting its pods. I reckon that growth generally is a week behind normal.
By The Newsroom
Published 21st May 2010, 16:15 BST
Updated 21st May 2010, 16:15 BST

The new heat exchanger proved its worth during the cold nights. The heaters haven't run since day 10, compared with the other sheds where heaters were coming on occasionally up to day 28. As with all newly-developed machines, obvious necessary improvements in the design are becoming apparent.

Now we have a new government, top of my wish list is the forever promised reduction in red tape, associated costs and a bit more common sense prevailing. I have a feeling it might just happen with the threatened economy measures. I just hope the country and most of all the Press, get behind this coalition.

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Our Entry Level Stewardship was due for renewal. Although there were slight imperfections in our digital maps, I daren't have them corrected because it would have caused more bother and delays than they were worth.

However, I must congratulate whoever designed the software, which allowed a fairly complicated application to be done accurately and quickly.

Because of changes, we had to find more environmentally beneficial ways to gain points. Luckily for us this was simple as we have over wintered stubbles for potatoes anyway. I do scratch my head though and just wonder what we do that actually improves the benefits to the environment that we weren't already doing.

No doubt the environmentalists will still claim that farmers are vandals and we should go back 30 years when we weren't doing any of these schemes and using a bigger range of chemicals.

CW 22/5/10