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Solution Open at Burghfield Sailing Club by Richard Brown 8 Jul 06:07 BST 3-4 July 2021
The forecast was for light winds and rain, no-one was expecting to have such great sailing event. A total of seven races were held in a shifting f2-f3 SSW breeze.
The Saturday race team set a course with a beat, reach and run providing plenty of opportunities for the nine sailors to take advantage of the wind shifts. The short start line gave little opportunity for anything other than starboards starts, making speed off the line critical. In race one all sailors bunched at the windward mark with Josh Hamer getting there first in his new Solution. As the race the progressed Josh managed to pull away with only Iain Wilkinson and local sailor Peter Blackman keeping in touch. This changed on the third lap when a big shift allowed Richard Brown and Robert Main to pass Peter and Iain on the penultimate beat. Richard took advantage to catch and pass Josh on the last lap, only to be
Could this thick crop of barley benefit from winter grazing sheep?
Scottish trials on grazing winter cereals with sheep show the potential for earlier drilling dates, better pest/disease control and increased yield potential.
This is according to recent results from a trial carried out Graham and Iain Wilkinson’s mixed enterprise, Balgay Farm.
The trial consisted of two one-hectare blocks drilled with winter wheat, winter barley and winter oats.
Each crop block was split down the middle with an electric fence and sheep were allowed to graze one half, but not the other.
We were concerned we had been too hard on the winter barley and it would have a detrimental impact on the crop