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'We’re up to our oxters harvesting daffodil bulbs, with about 100 tonnes being hauled in from the fields on a daily basis'.
It’s a time of my farming year that I often dread. We’re up to our oxters harvesting daffodil bulbs, with about 100 tonnes being hauled in from the fields on a daily basis.
Unfortunately, less than half of that amount is actual flower bulbs, so we’ve a series of separators and mechanisms set up in an intake line, allowing us to pick through all the material before putting it into one-tonne boxes and stacking them onto drying walls in the shed.
