投稿の詳細: 今日は雨　It rained today.

数日前からの予報通りの雨。
午前中一時小止みになったが、
家でPCに向かっていた。

お昼頃友人から電話があり、
今日は畑仕事はなしですと言うと、
野辺辺りじゃお百姓さんは
みんな畑で働いているよ、と叱責
を受ける。でも、その頃から雨脚が
強まって、結局畑仕事はお休み。

雨の中明日以降の準備をしつつ
畑を見回ると昨日の強風で、
巨峰畑の枝がかなり落ちて
しまった。明日以降房切りと同時に
誘引のやり直しだ。

今日明日とクラフトフェア@アートパーク。
知り合いが、アトラクションでギターと
オカリナの演奏をしている。雪でも降るんじゃ
ないかと言いながら演奏していたが、
明日は天気が良さそうです。午後3時頃から
やるそうですので、行って見て下さい。

食用廃油からバイオディーゼルを作っている
須坂エコライフネットワークから農機具（SS)
用にバイオディーゼルを18リットル買う。
昨日は、同じＮＰＯが作っている、
遊休荒廃農地で栽培した菜種油
を買った。今年も1.5ha程栽培しているが、
7月に収穫に使うコンバインの手配ができないで
困っているとのこと。この分では、収穫できない
かもと。

お米や麦、そば、大豆等穀類はみんなそうですが、
収穫のための機械の手当てが一番のネック
なんですね。1台何百万円もするし、
小規模な栽培だと採算とれないし。
人手でやるには人海戦術しかないし。
そういえば、昔小学校にも農繁休業というのが
春と秋に1週間ずつあった。機械が無いときは
家族総出だったんです。でも今は…。

It rained as forecasted a few days
before. It seemed to stoop raining for
a while in the morning but I was sitting
at the dest facing the PC.

A friend of mine　called me at around
noon time. She found me not working
today and told me that there are so many
farmers in the vineyards in the rain.
I sounded like a lazy farmer but the rain
became heavier around that time. I gave up
going out in the field today.

In any case, I drove to the Kyoho vineyards
to bring stairs for the operation next week and
found many branches were hanging down from
the overhead trellis. I have to train them again
by doing bunch forming,too!

There is The Craft Fair held at Suzaka Art Park
today and tomorrow. Friends of mine plays the
guitar and okarina. They played many times
in the coldness by wondering if it would snow.
It will be fine tomorrow. So please do come out
in the woods to stroll around the shops and
look for them at around 3pm.

I bought today biodiesel oil for my agricultural
machine from Suzaka Eco-Life Network. They make
it from used cooking oil collected locally.
They also make vegetable oils from rapesheeds which
I bought yesterday. Although they grow rape this
year again in the abandoned farm yards
but they are in a trouble not being
able to allocate a harvester for the harvest of
1.5ha of rape in July. They may have to give up
harvest this year.

Cereals like rice, wheat, buckwheat, soy beans,
all need big harvester but it is too expensive
for a small size farmers. It costs some million
Japanese Yen! If it should be done by hand, you
need some tens of people to accomplish. It remainded
me of my school days when we had spring and autumn
special leaves to help families during the each
busiest week in the farm yard. All the families
were required to work at that time.　Then now...