Cold comfort on game crop
We always used to plant the bulk of our game crops in May. The triticale used to go in mid to late March, the maize was usually planted by mid-May and the millets in early June when the ground was warm enough. This year, the weather has turned it on its head.
In March, it was too wet to get the triticale in and by mid-April, the ground was so dry that even the spring corn planted elsewhere on the estate stood still for weeks and did very little. April was also one of the coldest and frostiest on record and the first part of
