FARM UPDATE 60 - BLACKGRASS PULLING, BUILDING FARM ROAD, SPRAY OATS, VISIT SCHOOL, FARM DRIVE REPAIR
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- Опубликовано: 25 окт 2024
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Another great video Andrew and good to see a group of people getting stuck in to a very tedious job and making a good job of it to.
Alex seems really switched on. Knows what he’s doing and why he’s doing it. Great to see people that understand the bigger picture and what their work is going towards achieving. You really can’t beat the work ethic of Eastern Europeans!
Very Good. Impressed with the children and teachers. Wonderful what you are doing for the future of farming awareness!
Cheers Bob, the children are amazing.
Great video Andrew , hopefully the pullers get everything out.
I hope so too at £7k per week!
laid at the side of a pool in 30c heat in southern Spain, Reading Charlie Flindt on Friday, and watching Wardy's weekly waffle....perfect😂
🤣🤣🤣 Thanks Mark, that’s the first ‘holiday watching’ message I’ve had!
Thankyou for the time and trouble you take to produce these excellent and informative videos. 👌
Cheers Peter.
it will be a fantastic experience for the children to come and see some harvesting, best ever tea times were in the corner of the harvest feilds when I was a kid, it would be interesting to put a drone over those trial direct drill plots 👍
I remember those times well!! We have had a drone go up a few times but I’ve never had a spare slot in a video to post!
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard tea stewed in a flask, sandwiches pork pie, strawberry's and tined milk at haymaking time 😃
Great update Mr Ward, well done to Alex and the team through a hot few days, and a massive well done to all at Birchwood junior school!
Cheers John.
Fair play, you really look after your staff and those that come in, great to see 👏
I’m sure it’s well worth it and doesn’t take much effort, it just comes naturally.
Great Vid. Thanks
I was going to do that but the cost of hiring a crusher was huge, some of our other lanes started off like that and as long as you maintain every year, fill in any holes and clear up any soil off tyres immediately, we’ve found it to be fine. But, you might be right so watch this space!
Good video andrew,lovely to see the children taking such an intrest in how our food is produced.New stone track looking good,hoping theres no nails or ree bar to damage tyres.Nice to see the pair of english,looking forward to next video👍
The children are brilliant, I really enjoy their company!
Dear Andrew thanks again So much to absorb. Great to see the boss running the show & the consequent attention to detail ( can’t see that happening with a commitee run operation). So agree with your take down of the usual suspects ( Packham, Monbiot). Trouble is the Prime Minister is a hard left green eco nutter so we stand no chance. Is it not time to drill up to the edges & let the insects & one or two pheasants take their chances?
I can’t see anything changing, despite the new food strategy. Boris says what he thinks will get him votes but never intends to carry them through.
The A17 from Newark to civilisation 😜 Only kidding. Great video, wide ranging topics all interesting
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Interesting video, the school children were brilliant, the school and their parents should be very proud. Hopefully they will grow into adulthood without too much nonsense being fed to them. Blackgrass team doing a good job, shame we need overseas workers doing jobs that could be done by our own population. Ramps could have been a little wider whilst unloading the tractor, I have seen what damage happens when something goes wrong!! Could feel the vibrations through my chair when the roller went past.
The children have learnt so much about farming and food in such a short time and they have grasped the local and seasonal bit.
Andrew, if the black grass is taller than the crop isn’t it more practical to use a weed wiper and Roundup
Blackgrass is quite often shorter than wheat and it’s not until you walk to a plant and pull it do you realise how much of the plant is below the wheat.
I hope you don’t see a yield bump from running the vibrator roller next to the wheat, that would cause much head scratching.
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Another great video Andrew. I think hand pulling black grass is the way to go on some field if farms can get the help to do it . Did you grow up in the house that's been demolished ??
Cheers. I lived in the house when I got married and until I got divorced, I grew up in the village 2 miles away.
Pulling oats here on evenings and weekends, a slow job by yourself but well worth it!
👏👏👏 Well done, not an easy job.
Diesel fuel bowsers must now be double skinned or have secondary containment,
I think only if going on a public highway.
Grat video again Andrew! one question though, although you remove the blackgrass from the field and dispose of it the wood is there not still a chance of it spreading from there. Would you not be better digging a hole a burying it or getting rid of it in say an incinerator? just curious, Many thanks Jack
At the moment the seed in not viable and the amount we pull, we’d need a hole bigger than a transit van! The nearest arable field to that wood is about 250 metres.
Seeing the children so enthused and being taught so young about local produce and the importance of farming gives me great enthusiasm for the generation after the Karen’s and vegan throat stabbers we’ve got at the minute! I wonder if they know that Soy comes from soy beans which are farmed 🤣
I wondered what family relations you have,this video and the last one, are the next generation interested in the farm.when you pull the rogue plants out of the crops they are viable seed at that stage to grow again?
I have a daughter, grandson and nephew all involved in farming so the future looks bright. The BG seed is not viable at the mo.
Housham made sprayers in 1987,worked for HL chemicals,part of the Brown and Butlin group then, at Downham market for a summer stint 30 yrs ago,used to go to Leadenham for parts.They had a 24 and 36m sprayer
@@philipsankey988 I remember those companies well, Brown and Butlin HQ not far away at Ruskington.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Didnt they control most of the crop protection from Yorkshire to East Anglia,or associated companies under one umbrella
They did.
What sort of cost do you associate with hand rogueing per ha compared to herbicide cost?
Varies between crop and year but lowest is £20/ha, highest is over £200 but that 200 was 4 years ago. We are now getting blackgrass fee crops for about £95/hectare, that’s round up pre drilling, a basic pre em and hand rogueing. I’ve not used post em BG herbs for about 8 years.
I’m sure you’ve covered it at some point but how many Arable acres do you farm?
1,600. If you look at my RUclips bio there is a full run down on the farm.
Explain60%.thank.you
What do you mean explain 60%?
Also what we’re you referring to when you asked was I building the house out of ‘brexit money’?