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Trailer with Hay
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Harvesting a Wheat F...
Harvest is usually the busiest time of year for arable farmers. In the UK most crops are harvested in July, August and the early part of September. This picture shows a wheat field being harvested near Odell Wold, Bedfordshire early August 2005.
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Harvesting a Wheat F...
Cutting cannot commence until the crop is ready. Crops need to be harvested dry so that they can be stored for long periods without deterioration. Cereal crops tend to become a golden brown colour towards harvest. This is because the resources of the plant are being transferred to the grain in the...
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Harvesting a wheat f...
This picture shows a wheat field being harvested. The modern combine harvester carries out a number of functions including the cutting of the crop and the separation of the grain from the ear. Odell Wold August 2005
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Harvesting a Wheat F...
The combine is crucial for harvesting arable crops. It completes several operations at the same time. It cuts the plant about 9 inches above ground. It is then fed into the heart of the combine where it is spun very fast against a metal grate with holes in it. This is known as "thrashing"...
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Combine Harvester on...
The combine harvester is a large machine capable of carrying out serveral processes including cutting and cleaning grain. Here it is being dirven through the narrow country lanes at Turvey - not an easy process, the combine took nearly half an hour to reach the field a mile away. Late August 2005
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Combine Harvester on...
As well as wheat and barley the combine harvester has to be adaptable to harvest a whole variety of crops with different seed sizes, -from oilseed rape which is very small in contrast to crops like beans and peas. There are many variables that can be adjusted by the driver to ensure that the end cr...
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Combine Harvester on...
The cutter and other parts are transported seperately and then assembled in the field. Turvey Bedfordshire, August 2005
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Combine unloading gr...
The cut and cleaned grain is stored in a tank on the combine. This holds about five tonnes of grain. When the grain tank if full, the grain is unloaded into a grain trailer, which is often driven alongside the combine while the combine continues to cut grain. High standards of driving are required ...
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Harvesting the field
Once the harvesting has started farmer will work as long as possible into the evening to cut as much crop as possible. Crops need to be harvested dry so that they can be stored for long periods without deterioration, so the farmer need to make the most of dry fine days. Suffolk near Framlingham la...
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Combine being disman...
Once the field is harvested the combine is taken apart. As well as wheat and barley the combine harvester has to be adaptable to harvest a whole variety of crops with different seed size, -from oilseed rape which is very small in contrast to crops like beans and peas. There are many variables that ...
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Field near Gamlingay Cambs August 2005
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Grain in barn after ...
After harvest the grain is stored in purpose build barns and then stores that are free from pests and the risk of contamination. Near Cambridge August 2005
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Straw ploughed into ...
Nowadays the straw left after harvesting has relatively little value and it is mostly chopped up and spread by the combine and then ploughed into the ground to maintain the soils organic matter. In the past the straw would have been carefully saved for use in thatching and as bedding or feed for a...
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Straw
Each acre can yield over a tonne of straw, which can still be invaluable for winter bedding cattle and pigs as well as being a useful low value feed at times when forage stocks run low.
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