What is the farmer supposed to do when harvesting in very wet conditions?
A. GAEC 3 states that farmers must not carry out any mechanical operations on an area of waterlogged soil. Waterlogged soil is taken to mean fully saturated soils, where the whole of the plough layer is filled with water by virtue of a high water table or perched water above a compacted sub-soil. If soil really is waterlogged you should not harvest until conditions improve. This measure will only restrict harvesting in the most extreme circumstances and where farmers would be damaging their soils.
