Month - July

July
It might be summer but there is plenty going on indoors! Pateurisation, bottling and processing of milk all in a perfectly clean environment.

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July
Beef cattle are ideal for grazing the coarse grass growth of summer. Livestock are vital for the maintenance of some of the UK's most fragile grassland ecosystems.

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July
Inquisitive young piglets. Pigs suffer from heat stress and so require plenty of fresh air, shade and water.

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July
Ewes and lambs sheltering from hot summer sun.

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July
The ears of winter wheat. Grains, once ground provide us with flour for bread and biscuits.

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July
Spring barley is now maturing and the characteristic awns (spikes) from the ear glisten in evening light.

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July
Harvesting oats. After winter barley, winter oats are the next cereal to be cut.

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July
The rows in the potato crop have disappeared and tuber growth is rapid.

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July
The pods of oil seed rape now ready for harvest. Oil seed rape provides us with vegetable oil and is widely used in processed foods.

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July
Sunflowers are an alternative crop that are becoming more suitable for the UK as the climate becomes warmer.

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July
Courgettes prepared and packed for sale. UK vegetable production is now in full swing.

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July
By July local fruit is coming into season - black currants are illustrated here.

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July
A marbled white butterfly enjoying flowering grasses in a hay crop.

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July
Pyramid orchid in flower along side a footpath in Hampshire. Watching where you walk in the countryside is a serious issue.

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July
A well managed beech plantation.

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July
Charcoal in a kiln and ready for use at the heart of a good BBQ!

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