Attributed practitioner observation, not a quantified climate trend or causal attribution study. No harvest/sowing-window time series, biodiversity baseline or measured environmental outcome is supplied.
A farm interview with Andrew Jones on Islay. His account combines perceived weather changes and practical farming responses; PDF285 further explains that distillery returns support greater scale and willingness to take risks.
Andrew Jones reports longer winters, later springs, hotter summers and unpredictable autumn weather, describing a narrower window for getting barley in. Broom also describes his cover crops, manure use and pollinator planting.
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Islay barley and climate
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Source and scope
Andrew Jones reports longer winters, later springs, hotter summers and unpredictable autumn weather, describing a narrower window for getting barley in. Broom also describes his cover crops, manure use and pollinator planting.
Location and context
Dave Broom, A Sense of Place (Mitchell Beazley,2022), PDF284 in the347-sheet supplied copy. A farm interview with Andrew Jones on Islay. His account combines perceived weather changes and practical farming responses; PDF285 further explains that distillery returns support greater scale and willingness to take risks.
Interpretation limits
Attributed practitioner observation, not a quantified climate trend or causal attribution study. No harvest/sowing-window time series, biodiversity baseline or measured environmental outcome is supplied.
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