Alan Emery on Wartime

One thing, when the War broke out, you were paid £2 per acre and you were told when and what you had to plough up.

If you ploughed up a grass field, it was £2 per acre paid up, but then there was a tremendous amount of problems because all that grassland that was being ploughed up was full of wire worm and crops were failing like nobody’s business.

They couldn’t do anything with it and the only way if you like tried to do something, was to roll it, roll the crop, roll it down heavy, make it difficult for the little blighters to get about but that’s an instance and now of course there’s every sort of weed control and pest control you can think of.