While other men are becoming addicted to rolling news of Russia’s advances and setbacks in Ukraine, I have been scanning the footage for background signs of agricultural activity.
Any tractor action? Cultivators? Crop-sprayers? Unless the fields are sown with spring corn soon, there will be no harvest this year.
Although we can see tractors towing abandoned Russian tanks out of the fields, there has been no sign of them ploughing or scattering the good seed on Ukrainian land.
Once I would have been unable to