Mixed wheat and barley
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Mixed wheat and barley
Image: © Zorba the Geek Taken: 1 Aug 2008
The crop was barley but round the edges were patches of wheat (presumably last year's crop regrown) and elsewhere wild oats (no surprise). For urban readers, I should add: the ears of barley bend down and have hairs, wheat ears stand fairly upright and are clean-shaven. Oat grains appear individually, not bunched together like wheat and barley grains are.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.587433
Longitude
0.875178