"Malcolm" wrote in message
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It is not uncommon for someone to polish up a plough in spring by
ploughing
an acre of beach, just to get a shine.

Yes, one or two farmers here do that, leading to the inevitable questions
from visitors about the furrows in the sand, leading to the inevitable
straight-faced accounts of experimental crops by the locals :-))

of course, it is for planting GM crops designed especially to be low profile
to avoid activists (we hide them under salt water when anyone is looking
;-))

Jim Webster