Field notes
Short pieces on agriculture yield tracking and field operations: what a weighbridge can and cannot say, why headlands lie, and how mixed farms keep two calendars in one gateway.
13 January 2026
A ticket tells you what left the yard. It does not tell you which tramline donated the extra tonnes. Here is how we still use tickets as the backbone of a winter reading.
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2 November 2025
Comparing the body of a field with its headland as if they were the same crop is how good land gets a bad reputation.
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21 August 2025
Borrowed harvests still leave a record. You have to ask for it while the memory stick is still in the cab.
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8 March 2026
A low strip along a wood is not always a variety failure. Sometimes it is a roost.
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10 December 2025
Mixed farms in Herefordshire rarely get a clean combinable story. Cattle traffic is part of the yield record whether the spreadsheet admits it or not.
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