With prices for oil seed rape currently at £330 per ton most farmers might not agree that this is a field of gold, but the owner who lives in the castle in the background seems to be doing all right!
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| Fields of gold in Windsor Great Park |
For sure, oilseed rape is 'gold' for my bees because over the last week or so they have been frantically working this field. Already one 'super' has been filled with about 30 lb of honey and they are starting to fill a second box. What a turn around compared to last year (see
Oh crapus - there's no B. napus!).
Better still, the field in the foreground contains field beans which should start to flower in the about a month, just as the rape is fading and before the wild flowers in Stag Meadow come into bloom. It should be a good year provided the weather holds.
However, there's a Sting in the 'tale' - your man was singing about barley!
