Farmers in Suður-Þingeyjarsýsla, a district in northeast Iceland, have driven wagons carrying newly threshed barley into underground tunnels at Húsavík to protect their harvest. Bændablaðið first reported the news on Thursday. The effort was made as the remaining barley fields, totalling some tens of hectares, turned yellow and became ripe for harvest.
Húsavík is a town in Norðurþing municipality on the northeast coast of Iceland, situated along the shores of Skjálfandi bay. Known for landmarks such as the wooden Húsavíkurkirkja church and its whale watching industry, the town provides a backdrop for this unusual storage technique. No details have been released on which tunnels were used, the amount of barley involved or how long the wagons are expected to stay underground.
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- Bændablaðið (first reported) in Icelandic
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