Harvest 17 Update: Week 1

This screen shot from the weather station pretty much describes how harvest has gone this week. As reported earlier, we cut one tankful on Sunday afternoon, and have slowly picked away at it for the rest of the week, but it hasn’t been easy.
The total amount of rain isn’t that vast (I’ve seen more than that fall in one day in the past), but it is the fact that there has been some every day. Thursday was the best day, where we cut around 30 tonnes. Yesterday (Saturday), I got 3 tonnes cut before the big showers started to hit. We had a record rain rate at about 5.30pm, but thankfully it only fell at that rate for a few seconds!
The other side effect of the poor weather is that we are chopping all the straw so far. Not much point in leaving it in the bout just for it to get soaked, and lie for a week.
The weather forecast for the coming week is better, so fingers crossed.