Since last week the weather is continuously getting better and the most of the days are sunny and the day temperatures are quite nice. That means that the fields are dried up and the seedbed preparation and the drilling of the first crops has started.
As well on the farm were Ludwig is working the work is more and more concentrated out on the field. This week I was rolling some of the fields where field beans were drilled before to compact the seedbed a bit better and improve the contact of the seeds to the soil so they will hopefully germinate soon. Another task was to harrow a bare left field to brake up the harsh crust. This was carried out by a machine that I helped to rebuild during the last weeks and it was equipped it with new goose-foot blades. You can see the difference of a worked and non-worked plot on the pictures below.
