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Thousands of acres of crops to be sold (From Hereford Times)
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Thousands of acres of crops to be sold
9:00am Saturday 4th July 2009
THE annual sale of standing straw in Herefordshire starts in earnest next week, Thousands of acres of wheat and barley straw, pea haulm and oil seed rape will be sold at field auctions across the county. Amounts on offer are expected to be much in line with last year and a reasonable trade for good quality straw is expected.
David Thompson, of Sunderlands and Thompsons, which has more than 3,000 acres on its books to sell, said everyone was hoping for a better harvesting period this year to get the straw off the fields in good condition.
Last year, farmers faced a poor harvesting summer with much straw failing to get baled and eventually being chopped and ploughed in. In some areas, crops stood in water and near Ross-on-Wye, there were scenes of bales being washed across fields by floods.
Most of the straw sales advertised in the Hereford Times, take place on-farm in the evenings and will be concluded within two weeks.
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