Some Trials Hand Harvested

 We cut the field peas off with garden shears and just rolled them up. Notice the cracks in the soil, it used the soil water up well. I think it has been 12 weeks with out rain now. Notice the Canola in the foreground, it died.

 Hand harvesting the Field Pea trials, 52.2kg takes a while. We planted 2.2 kg of seed. Two Australian friends, Andrew Frost and Geoff O'Neil were a good help.

The field peas yielded 1.69t ha on the 350mm spacing and 1.46t ha on the 750mm spacing.
We hand harvested some barley and it yielded 3.25t ha. We will machine harvest the rest on Monday.