[GrahamB]

Bloody magenta line-followers.

[Miscellaneous]

Any minute now someone is going to suggest having a whip round for the poor arable farmers.

On a serious note, great thread. I have a love of how things/systems/markets work.

Went to the livestock market last year and got worried when no-one would bid for particular lambs. I thought SWMBO's concern was going to result in her buying them. They eventually sold for £1 each.

[TheFarmer]

Bloody magenta line-followers.

I bet you didn’t know there was a wheat variety named after you, did you?

Are you early maturing too?!

[MikeB]

So can we expect to see fields with wiggly lines and Graham chucked in all directions when GPS jamming trials are being undertaken?

[kanga]

We choose our wheat variety for its strengths in certain aspects.
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The Flyer Wheat crop is a variety called Graham. It’s in the list.
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Any connexion to the 'Graham Cracker', a biscuit I encountered for the first time in the US ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_cracker

</idle but persistent curiosity about eponyms>

[TheFarmer]

Nope. Almost certainly not.

[Miscellaneous]

@TheFarmer I'm guessing your intended Scotland trip is not going to happen this year now, due harvest?

Now if you were a GP you'd just call in a locum.

[TheFarmer]

Sadly, that looks to be the case. I had thought that the early harvest would mean there’d be a two week quiet spell in late August. That hasn’t happened.

[GrahamB]

I bet you didn’t know there was a wheat variety named after you, did you?

Are you early maturing too?!

Mrs GB would argue quite the opposite, I’m sure.

[Pete L]

Have you planted earlier this year than average?

[TheFarmer]

Good question.

By about a week, yes. Partly because I have so much to do this year (I’ve also been asked to do some contracting work), and partly because I don’t trust the weather.