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Which gather in the crop and bring that in in slightly wetter conditions and so it allows us to do a bit more each day. we are here at one of your wheat fields, about a0 acres of wheat here. and what do you do differently now in terms of when you plant this crop compared to what you would have done traditionally? so traditionally this would have been a plough—based system. we would have cloud it and then drilled in the autumn or winter wheat or we would have cloud it here ready for the spring cropping and left it as a plough over the winter. very much that releases an awful lot of carbon and...

Here ready for the spring cropping and left it as a plough over the winter. very much that releases an awful lot of carbon and it creates an awful lot of energy. so to reduce that we are now doing direct drilling and drilling in the autumn, direct drilling the crop seed into it without that plough movement, so we are reducing carbon that way. and once all these crops have been harvested and you have got bare soil, what do you do to protect that soil from say increasing extreme rainfall events? so in the autumn we would direct drill a cover crop into there and use it as almost as a false crop d...

It has got a new very fancy header on, which is on rubber belts, which gather in the crop and bring that in in slightly wetter conditions and so it allows us to do a bit more each day. we are here at one of your wheat fields, about 40 acres of wheat here. and what do you do differently now in terms of when you plant this crop compared to what you would have done traditionally? so traditionally this would have been a plough—based system. we would have cloud it and then drilled in the autumn or winter wheat or we would have cloud it here ready for the spring cropping and left it as a plough ov...

Of the wettestjune was one of the wettest. the sunlight levels that we rely on to grow our crops has really been reduced and that affects our yield. so it has really changed in just this year, let alone the last 20 years. so what have you had to do differently to adapt to these changing weather conditions that you are seeing? so this combine is 30% bigger than what we have had in the past. it has got a new very fancy header on, which is on rubber belts, which gather in the crop and bring that in in slightly wetter conditions and so it allows us to do a bit more each day. we are here at one of ...

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