Dragging
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Being organic means putting up with quite a lot of weeds, and now the wheat is combined it is clear to see that the stubble is infested with docks and dandelions. A conventional farmer could run over with a herbicide spray and sort the whole field in 20 minutes, for us though it takes a little longer.
The drag you see in the photo is lifting the weeds out of the soil, in the hope that the dry weather will shrivel and kill them all. This will take quite a few weeks and relies on dry weather. We may have to go over the field a dozen times before it is clean, but it will pay off by reducing weed competition for the following crop.
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