2020 Harvest is underway with the winter linseed harvested and wheat harvest about to start. But after such a tricky season, it's not going as well as hoped.
I've come to like this channel more than the car one, I like the car one because I like cars, but I find this channel so interesting. When we had that dry spell, I was praying for rain for a guy I've never met and probably never will, and I have a convertible that I've not had much chance to enjoy this year. I think I'll always think of farmers now when we have wet-dry spells, the weird thing is my first job was on a farm when I was only 9, but I've always lived rurally and I even rented a big farmhouse on a working farm for 3 years and even now at 50 years of age I'm still surrounded by farms, yet I've learned more from this channel than all of that. So thanks for the free education Harry, you're a great teacher.
Keep it up Harry your a credit to the country. We need a hardworking wise man like you at the top to sort out the mess in Westminster. If the farm struggles for money feel free to make more videos no matter what it’s about and I’ll happily support with likes and comments.
Harry has that rare gift of effortless and interesting communication. His car channel is outstanding for honest reviews and interesting insights into cars with reputations deserved or not. Then farming...my Great Uncles were Somerset farmers and I grew up as a regular visitor so saw farming from an early age. Harry though, makes the subject enthralling...you understand his thoughts on good or bad news...we learn a lot and as many say, his channel is involving and engaging even if farming is a mystery to some of us. I look forward to everything Harry brings to us..Well done Sir..I hope the harvest will eventually have some good news somehow but 2020 is a year to forget for countless reasons.🙂🙂🙂
Harry I am pleased you tell us the financial side of farming it makes for a very interesting farming channel hope your other business ventures can continue to help support your farming journey .Great content as always thanks Harry 👍
Kiwi farmer breaks own world record with monster wheat crop... Guinness World Record for the highest wheat yield with a crop producing 17.398 tonnes per hectare. www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/122074530/kiwi-farmer-breaks-own-world-record-with-monster-wheat-crop
Yes very informative for all us rural living non-farmers. Yes walking the dog across the fields today and around here in Leicestershire worryingly our local farmers do not seem to be combining at all and the fields are just full of rotting wheat??? What's going on Harry???
@@jetyn8 Kiwi farmer breaks own world record with monster wheat crop... Guinness World Record for the highest wheat yield with a crop producing 17.398 tonnes per hectare. www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/122074530/kiwi-farmer-breaks-own-world-record-with-monster-wheat-crop
This channel is fascinating, as someone else said as a car guy ironically I'm more excited to watch this than your other channel, keep it up Harry I love these videos
I've read recently that Jeremy Clarkson's new farm series has been postponed due to the awful year that farmers have had. Nice to see Harry still farming, telling us the facts and remaining positive. I guess that's the difference between a real farmer and a "celebrity" farmer.
Thanks for posting this Harry, much appreciated 👍 Would love to get into farming, but it seems a massive gamble. Best of luck to you and all farmers for the season.
Sorry to hear about the disappointing yield of linseed Harry. Some much hard work for you and your family. Hopefully the wheat yield will be above your expectations.
Brilliant vid as usual i`m watching the harvest on my local farm this weekend in st Margarets they`ve taken the Barley today i think they`ll start the wheat tomorrow . Its great to have Harry to give a commentary on the farming cycle ,i`ve learned so much .
Pessimistic Forecasts of yields and costings are the only realistic way to plan effectively. Optimistic and fall short is disaster, Pessimistic and exceed is a bonus. Good to see realism in thought and planning, you can't beat it.
Wow- and i thought my 25 tomato plants were labour intensive. Seriously though a great video & very educational. Cirencester Agricultural students should view this. Good luck with the wheat Harry. ( bet you could have a great DTL set up there too ).
Hello Harry, I find your videos so interesting and honest, especially when it comes to the financial side of things. Usually farmers are so cagey about what there profit and losses are.it makes you realise that farmers are not making thousands and thousands in profit every year. Let’s face it having to make any money with nature in control is no mean feat, so good luck with the rest of your harvest Harry and you will have to put 2020 down to not a goo year. 😀
Binge watched all of these videos in a few days after a mention from Tom Pemberton. I am impressed at just how much I've been able to learn from them. I'm champing at the bit for the next installment.
Looks like The game birds and finches etc are the only one's on a profit this year Harry ,with that lovely cover crop .I'm sure i saw a covey of partridge's chuckling in the hedgerow .
Really sorry about your Linseed, proves to those who don't know a farmers lot is not a certain one , let's hope the government do all they can to help farmers moving forward. cheers. PS love these videos from life on the farm!
I had been waiting to see a report from you Harry, with regard to your harvest. This years weather has been so challenging for the wet and dry oscillations in the first half of this year, I'm amazed you have got anything from your crops this year. I had been watching events from where we are located, mostly on the edge of dairy county but wondering what the drought and the then deluge would do. I do hope you have better luck next year.
Hi Harry, Great videos. I am not that far from you. Unbelievable year and am just as frustrated as you about your Linseed as it looked like it had faired so well through the drought. Could it have been very very late severe frosts in May that are equally, if not more to blame? My Winter Barley yields were poor, but especially so where those late frosts had got to them, damaging its flowering and causing bind grain-sites. On the part of the farm that didn’t get those frosts, the yield was very much better, but still only raising the average to 2 tons/acre-ish! Let’s us all hope for a better farming year next year! Especially for (Winter) Linseed, which I shall be growing for the first time. Partly because growing Oilseed Rape is now completely out of the question thanks to Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle thanks to the ban on Neonic seed dressings and partly because of your videos on growing Linseed look(ed!) so encouraging!
Pity about the linseed. I think it’s important to discuss the figures so people understand farming isn’t the licence to print money that some people seem to think it is.
Hi Harry I don't know whether you'll read this but it might be worth sounding out your farmer buddies and clubbing together and investing in some bee's specifically for linseed and osr, that way you won't solely be relying on the low natural population that is becoming more prevalent.
Harry ,Winter barley on my farm in the Scottish Borders, struggled to produce two tons per acre this year, last year it was over three , we had from end of Feb almost 12 weeks without a drop of rain.
Kiwi farmer breaks own world record with monster wheat crop... Guinness World Record for the highest wheat yield with a crop producing 17.398 tonnes per hectare. www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/122074530/kiwi-farmer-breaks-own-world-record-with-monster-wheat-crop
Another educational video on farming - Thank You! Sorry about your yeild, but sounds like the whole season is a write-off everywhere. Let's hope the wheat does its (economic) job - Good Luck!
That’s a bugger, but what I like is your honesty, so many farmers always talk about their massive yield which is probably not an average, hope your wheat is much better, I hope to get into the spring barley, sadly prices not looking to good!!
Judging by how many people were paying to walk around a Cotswold lavender field yesterday, maybe turn a few acres over to lavender or a coffee shop like your local garden centre, charge what you want, my Mrs will pay it anyway 😫
There's a lavender farm near where I live. Very pretty indeed, but unbelievably labor intensive - has to be tended almost entirely by hand, tedious and backbreaking work.
Hi Harry, you mentioned that the price of wheat has risen, which makes sense regarding the supply. I would hope that the Linseed price would do the same thing. Maybe not enough to cover the loss but it would certainly help.
Hi Harry. What I know about farming you could balance on the head of a pin - apart from what I've learned through your channel. Brilliant! So, having declared that I know nothing, I'm just wondering about the poor Linseed crop. Is it even remotely possible that the seed you sowed was somehow defective, perhaps genetically(?) in the sense that it just wasn't EVER going to produce much, or is truly down to the growing conditions? I ask because I can remember in the 60's and the early days of my parents vegetable garden them buying seeds and the crop was poor, and so they doubted the source. Later they increasingly retained some of their own crop for planting next time so the source was known to them. They weren't hybridising or anything, just planting seed from known good crops. One final question. Are there such things as rogue seed merchants? I suppose the obvious answer is, where there is money to be made, there will be, but no doubt you have your own reliable merchant. Anyway, apologies for a long comment, but just curious. Regards Mark in the UK
As a retired Aussie farmer, I feel your pain. I have watched your crops for the whole year and I am wondering if you have had a frost on your linseed. Frost are a curse for farmers here in Southern Victoria especially in wheat, but canola can also be effected, it’s just a timing thing. I have grown linseed in the past , because for us we sow linseed later we miss the frost.
The linseed issue is puzzling. I'm wondering if the wet weather occurred during the flowering stage and it affected pollination. It would be interesting to hear more in a future episode if you get some further info. I wonder what the agronomists thoughts are?
Not a great year all round is it, a lot of money lost in many industries. Who'd be a Farmer this year, but then, who'd be in hospitality, events or travel? A year to get over and get on I think. Short supply should see a better price? There's dearth of Hay and grass hasn't grown well to feed livestock, grassland with grazing livestock often looks bare. Too much rain early on too little later, a weather pattern that doesn't suit. Better luck Next year. These are very informative and watchable video's. I like the car video's which are interesting but they don't excite quite as the Farming ones do. Keep making both you are a very natural presenter, and whatever you do, Have Fun doing it, that's what Life is all about, to be lived, not just getting by. ^-)
Kiwi farmer breaks own world record with monster wheat crop... Guinness World Record for the highest wheat yield with a crop producing 17.398 tonnes per hectare. www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/122074530/kiwi-farmer-breaks-own-world-record-with-monster-wheat-crop
Gave you a thumbs up Harry, though it should have been a thumbs down as far as the linseed is concerned! You never know, if other countries are down too you may get a good price, unless you've sold it forward. Hopefully the wheat will be closer to a good yield. Are there verieties more resistant to drought and excess water available?
Interesting about the Linseed yield. We had a very wet winter, then a hot spring. But in the hot spring we also had a lot of cold, clear nights. I think the crop sustained shock events because of the very high temperatures differences day and night and this may have effected yields due to plant development problems early on. Just an opinion but backed up by my poor tomato yields!
Our apple crop was decimated by late frost. It appears we'll have to rapidly adapt to climate change as there's no alternative. The next few years with Brexit will be crucial too.
@@VanderlyndenJengold Late frost is, as you say, hugely damaging and we lost all of our crab apples. This are tough buggers and I was very surprised. We measured - 6 Deg C during the last last frost of this year and it burnt off leaves of trees that are normally last to emerge. However, the multiple shocks to the plants from hot days and cold - but not freezing - nights is known to damage plant growth. However, Harry's Linseed looked really good in flower yet produced poor yields. A lot of Linseed is grown around us in N. Oxfordshire and I guess those growers have suffered the same. The only plus side is prices may rise especially if imported Linseed gets hit by tariffs after Jan 1 2021. We are witnessing climate change and will need to adapt.
@@VanderlyndenJengold climate change? We've ALWAYS had to contend with late frosts, they are generally quite local but entirely predictable, cold air flows downhill, so know your local conditions or speak to the old timers from your area and LISTEN to them.
@@paulmarchant9231I should have used a separate paragrapgh between my frost damge and climate change. I know enough about frost damage in my location. If you have watched Harry's videos you will know why I mention climate change.
The more I watch, the more I understand why farmers decide to sell off land for housing as it’s just so up and down each year. I know that Harry said he’s not doing that though!
I don't know much about this bigger scale agriculture, I helped my grandparents a lot but they did it mostly to themselves and the family. Maximum numbers were around 3000litres of wine and 4000kg of corn for flour and feeding animals, among other stuff like potatoes etc. My question here is, the weath I know it's largely used for flour, but what about the linseed? Over here in Portugal I think I only see linseed in the bio and nutrition areas, because of it's fiber content etc. What is it used for beyond this? Very interesting video as always.
Any thoughts on bringing in automated watering systems? There are many areas in the states that use them to supplement irregular rainfall. I think the system would be a large capital investment but... I don’t know how the UK allocates water to farmers (or others). I know here in the states, depending on the state the farm is in, water and farming is a real political fubar.
I've come to like this channel more than the car one, I like the car one because I like cars, but I find this channel so interesting.
When we had that dry spell, I was praying for rain for a guy I've never met and probably never will, and I have a convertible that I've not had much chance to enjoy this year.
I think I'll always think of farmers now when we have wet-dry spells, the weird thing is my first job was on a farm when I was only 9, but I've always lived rurally
and I even rented a big farmhouse on a working farm for 3 years and even now at 50 years of age I'm still surrounded by farms, yet I've learned more from this channel than all of that. So thanks for the free education Harry, you're a great teacher.
Couldn't have put it better myself. Great channel 👏
I also have found that i watch Harrys farm channel more then hes car channel
Me too, find so interesting and informative. Thanks to Harry
“and I have a convertible “😆
I absolutely agree. Very informative to a non-farmer who is surrounded by farms. Thanks Harry.
Sorry to hear about the poor yields Harry, we are having issues with to much rain here in the north west. Very interesting video
were not having the worst yields here and we have to get in 5,500 but last year was an amazing yield in Oxfordshire
ive been watching you for years keep up the great work
Doesn't help that the North West is the wettest area of England, only second to the western Highlands for the UK.
Keep it up Harry your a credit to the country. We need a hardworking wise man like you at the top to sort out the mess in Westminster.
If the farm struggles for money feel free to make more videos no matter what it’s about and I’ll happily support with likes and comments.
Harry has that rare gift of effortless and interesting communication. His car channel is outstanding for honest reviews and interesting insights into cars with reputations deserved or not. Then farming...my Great Uncles were Somerset farmers and I grew up as a regular visitor so saw farming from an early age. Harry though, makes the subject enthralling...you understand his thoughts on good or bad news...we learn a lot and as many say, his channel is involving and engaging even if farming is a mystery to some of us. I look forward to everything Harry brings to us..Well done Sir..I hope the harvest will eventually have some good news somehow but 2020 is a year to forget for countless reasons.🙂🙂🙂
Harry I am pleased you tell us the financial side of farming it makes for a very interesting farming channel hope your other business ventures can continue to help support your farming journey .Great content as always thanks Harry 👍
Definitely agree. Quantifying the loss or gain with real numbers based on the climate for the season makes it so much more informative.
Kiwi farmer breaks own world record with monster wheat crop...
Guinness World Record for the highest wheat yield with a crop producing 17.398 tonnes per hectare.
www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/122074530/kiwi-farmer-breaks-own-world-record-with-monster-wheat-crop
Yes very informative for all us rural living non-farmers. Yes walking the dog across the fields today and around here in Leicestershire worryingly our local farmers do not seem to be combining at all and the fields are just full of rotting wheat??? What's going on Harry???
I am an avid follower of both your channels. Great work, I've learned so much.
Fascinating as ever Mr M !
It's been a pretty awful year for everyone so far. Fingers crossed for the wheat.
Geo Engineering is causing all of this damage, being done on purpose,
@@jetyn8 Kiwi farmer breaks own world record with monster wheat crop...
Guinness World Record for the highest wheat yield with a crop producing 17.398 tonnes per hectare.
www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/122074530/kiwi-farmer-breaks-own-world-record-with-monster-wheat-crop
This channel is fascinating, as someone else said as a car guy ironically I'm more excited to watch this than your other channel, keep it up Harry I love these videos
Thank you Harry, another honest video with more information to keep the people informed, best wishes to you from East Anglia.
Wow qu’elle machine super vidéo mon papa adoré avoir cette moissonneuse batteuse pour sa petite ferme 😃 merci beaucoup Harry’s farm
I've read recently that Jeremy Clarkson's new farm series has been postponed due to the awful year that farmers have had. Nice to see Harry still farming, telling us the facts and remaining positive. I guess that's the difference between a real farmer and a "celebrity" farmer.
Be good to see a video explaining why costs in farming are so high, even before machinery costs are taken into account. Great video as ever Harry.
Thanks for posting this Harry, much appreciated 👍
Would love to get into farming, but it seems a massive gamble.
Best of luck to you and all farmers for the season.
Thanks for the update Harry. Always informative.
Thanks, Harry, and good luck with the rest of the harvest-
Sorry to hear about the disappointing yield of linseed Harry. Some much hard work for you and your family. Hopefully the wheat yield will be above your expectations.
Cheers Harry good video ,it has been a very different year, keep calm and carry on 🚜
I've learned more about farming from this great channel than I have in my lifetime, great channel.
Brilliant vid as usual i`m watching the harvest on my local farm this weekend in st Margarets they`ve taken the Barley today i think they`ll start the wheat tomorrow . Its great to have Harry to give a commentary on the farming cycle ,i`ve learned so much .
Pessimistic Forecasts of yields and costings are the only realistic way to plan effectively. Optimistic and fall short is disaster, Pessimistic and exceed is a bonus. Good to see realism in thought and planning, you can't beat it.
Thanks Harry, look forward to you videos, tough business, you have my best wishes.
So sorry to hear Harry, fingers crossed for the wheat, keep up the great videos
You have such a positive disposition and an even keel Harry you are a legend in my books M8!
No financial worries, his own boss and healthy. Living the dream is why id wager😊
What a job you’ve got I thought textiles was bad good luck with your further harvests 👍👍
Perfect timing sir! Looking forward to this one.
Great video Harry
Can’t wait for the next one 👍🏻
Wow- and i thought my 25 tomato plants were labour intensive. Seriously though a great video & very educational. Cirencester Agricultural students should view this. Good luck with the wheat Harry. ( bet you could have a great DTL set up there too ).
The lack of predictability in this game would drive me nuts .
Hello Harry, I find your videos so interesting and honest, especially when it comes to the financial side of things. Usually farmers are so cagey about what there profit and losses are.it makes you realise that farmers are not making thousands and thousands in profit every year. Let’s face it having to make any money with nature in control is no mean feat, so good luck with the rest of your harvest Harry and you will have to put 2020 down to not a goo year. 😀
Binge watched all of these videos in a few days after a mention from Tom Pemberton. I am impressed at just how much I've been able to learn from them. I'm champing at the bit for the next installment.
Fascinating Harry really enjoy / appreciate it. Good luck with the wheat. What shame after all the time and effort invested.
Love how farmers handle these baf6 years, true grit. Keep on plugging, my friend.
So sorry to hear about your yields. Fingers crossed for a better result with your wheat. 2020 is just terrible all the way around.
And here I am trying to protect my tomato plants from a rouge deer. Great video Harry. Here's to 2020 wheat and on to 2021!
Looks like The game birds and finches etc are the only one's on a profit this year Harry ,with that lovely cover crop .I'm sure i saw a covey of partridge's chuckling in the hedgerow .
keep up the good work Harry - farming is a way of life my friend.
Love 💕 you’re video,s Harry Car ,s & Farmer’s mate from Australia 🇦🇺.
Espada rebuild and linseed loss, gonna have to tell Mrs M there’s no goose this Christmas. Spam and spuds!
Sorry to hear that you've had such a bad season. Good job you've got this channel to help you out financially.
Thanks but it'll be a while before income from Harry's Farm will make up for years like this! All helps, though..
There are three ways to go bankrupt
Betting, women and farming.
Betting being the most elegant, women the most joyful and farming the surest.
Four: Motor racing
Don’t forget what George Best said - “I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered” 😂😂
SmashGhost ocean yacht racing.
Fascinating stuff, I'm having similar problems in my garden!
I’m sorry to learn about the poor Linseed harvest Harry. Fingers crossed your wheat will exceed 3 Tonnes per acre.
Good evening Harry.. I'm a new follower... An ex farm wife from New Hampshire.. Thank you for the excellent video ❤️❤️
you have to watch from the start. please
Great video Harry. Maybe should have titled the vid - '2020 harvest is GO GO GO' and then some form of 'Murray-ism'. 👍
Really sorry about your Linseed, proves to those who don't know a farmers lot is not a certain one , let's hope the government do all they can to help farmers moving forward. cheers. PS love these videos from life on the farm!
Welcome to 2020 , Harry.
Great video harry
You know Harry your missing a trick on that chaff out the back! It makes perfect horse bedding.
Great video, keep it coming.
I never skip the ads to help my man Harry 👍🤣
Does this make a difference? I always skip as soon as possible. Should I stop skipping ads?
I had been waiting to see a report from you Harry, with regard to your harvest. This years weather has been so challenging for the wet and dry oscillations in the first half of this year, I'm amazed you have got anything from your crops this year. I had been watching events from where we are located, mostly on the edge of dairy county but wondering what the drought and the then deluge would do. I do hope you have better luck next year.
Hello Harry, at one point you looked like a 'Linseed Whisper', very interesting vlog. Regards, RichardA.
Harvest going on and Im still haying! LOL 😂 Cheers 🍻from Prairie Sunset Ranch☀️
Hi Harry,
Great videos. I am not that far from you. Unbelievable year and am just as frustrated as you about your Linseed as it looked like it had faired so well through the drought.
Could it have been very very late severe frosts in May that are equally, if not more to blame?
My Winter Barley yields were poor, but especially so where those late frosts had got to them, damaging its flowering and causing bind grain-sites. On the part of the farm that didn’t get those frosts, the yield was very much better, but still only raising the average to 2 tons/acre-ish!
Let’s us all hope for a better farming year next year! Especially for (Winter) Linseed, which I shall be growing for the first time. Partly because growing Oilseed Rape is now completely out of the question thanks to Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle thanks to the ban on Neonic seed dressings and partly because of your videos on growing Linseed look(ed!) so encouraging!
Would never of thought 💭 it.........
Love HARRY’S FARM 🏎 🚜
Very interesting, and informative .
Pity about the linseed. I think it’s important to discuss the figures so people understand farming isn’t the licence to print money that some people seem to think it is.
Hi Harry I don't know whether you'll read this but it might be worth sounding out your farmer buddies and clubbing together and investing in some bee's specifically for linseed and osr, that way you won't solely be relying on the low natural population that is becoming more prevalent.
Harry ,Winter barley on my farm in the Scottish Borders, struggled to produce two tons per acre this year, last year it was over three , we had from end of Feb almost 12 weeks without a drop of rain.
Pretty much describes the year as a whole, unpredictable. Let's hope 2021 brings more stability in every way.
Sorry to hear about the Linseed Harry, hopefully you can make it up with the wheat.
Different watch this week Harry I see👍. Looks like a nice vintage GMT on an oyster bracelet.
Pepsi I think. Same as in his recent M5 vid.
Yeah, I think we have seen it before, looks like the Pepsi bezel has nicely faded, not surprising as Harry is not afraid to get his hands dirty!
@@ianmedium a brand new Pepsi doesn't come on oyster bracelet so yes it looks a few years old.
Kiwi farmer breaks own world record with monster wheat crop...
Guinness World Record for the highest wheat yield with a crop producing 17.398 tonnes per hectare.
www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/122074530/kiwi-farmer-breaks-own-world-record-with-monster-wheat-crop
Gutted for you, Harry. I reckon a walk around your car garage should cheer you up a bit:)
Another educational video on farming - Thank You! Sorry about your yeild, but sounds like the whole season is a write-off everywhere. Let's hope the wheat does its (economic) job - Good Luck!
Hope the wheat makes up a bit for the linseed.
Hey Harry keep it up Cheers from Ceylon
Cheers Harry 👍🏻
That’s a bugger, but what I like is your honesty, so many farmers always talk about their massive yield which is probably not an average, hope your wheat is much better, I hope to get into the spring barley, sadly prices not looking to good!!
Fingers crossed wheat yields better. Our winter barley was down nearly one tonne per acre and only about 50 % of normal straw
Keep Looking for the positives harry mate grazie ciao
Sad Times Harry hope yields improve.
Well done Harry u should come to Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺 .
Judging by how many people were paying to walk around a Cotswold lavender field yesterday, maybe turn a few acres over to lavender or a coffee shop like your local garden centre, charge what you want, my Mrs will pay it anyway 😫
There's a lavender farm near where I live. Very pretty indeed, but unbelievably labor intensive - has to be tended almost entirely by hand, tedious and backbreaking work.
Could u do a machinery tour plz ....great video
Nice watch Harry.
2020 though! What a year.
Hi Harry, you mentioned that the price of wheat has risen, which makes sense regarding the supply. I would hope that the Linseed price would do the same thing. Maybe not enough to cover the loss but it would certainly help.
Sorry about the yield issues Harry must be painful after all of that effort and cost.
Shame about the linseed Harry. Fingers crossed for the wheat 🌾.
One can only assume that the Aston Martin has been sent back to have the three point linkage fitted?
Excellent!
Hi Harry. What I know about farming you could balance on the head of a pin - apart from what I've learned through your channel. Brilliant!
So, having declared that I know nothing, I'm just wondering about the poor Linseed crop. Is it even remotely possible that the seed you sowed was somehow defective, perhaps genetically(?) in the sense that it just wasn't EVER going to produce much, or is truly down to the growing conditions?
I ask because I can remember in the 60's and the early days of my parents vegetable garden them buying seeds and the crop was poor, and so they doubted the source. Later they increasingly retained some of their own crop for planting next time so the source was known to them. They weren't hybridising or anything, just planting seed from known good crops.
One final question. Are there such things as rogue seed merchants? I suppose the obvious answer is, where there is money to be made, there will be, but no doubt you have your own reliable merchant.
Anyway, apologies for a long comment, but just curious.
Regards Mark in the UK
Great education..
As a retired Aussie farmer, I feel your pain. I have watched your crops for the whole year and I am wondering if you have had a frost on your linseed. Frost are a curse for farmers here in Southern Victoria especially in wheat, but canola can also be effected, it’s just a timing thing. I have grown linseed in the past , because for us we sow linseed later we miss the frost.
The linseed issue is puzzling. I'm wondering if the wet weather occurred during the flowering stage and it affected pollination. It would be interesting to hear more in a future episode if you get some further info. I wonder what the agronomists thoughts are?
Not a great year all round is it, a lot of money lost in many industries. Who'd be a Farmer this year, but then, who'd be in hospitality, events or travel? A year to get over and get on I think. Short supply should see a better price? There's dearth of Hay and grass hasn't grown well to feed livestock, grassland with grazing livestock often looks bare. Too much rain early on too little later, a weather pattern that doesn't suit. Better luck Next year. These are very informative and watchable video's. I like the car video's which are interesting but they don't excite quite as the Farming ones do. Keep making both you are a very natural presenter, and whatever you do, Have Fun doing it, that's what Life is all about, to be lived, not just getting by. ^-)
The episode that brings Harry literally to his knees......
Might have to sell one of his cars?.....
Kiwi farmer breaks own world record with monster wheat crop...
Guinness World Record for the highest wheat yield with a crop producing 17.398 tonnes per hectare.
www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/122074530/kiwi-farmer-breaks-own-world-record-with-monster-wheat-crop
Hope the head fill for the wheat was more successful and the yields make up. You didn’t fancy a no till experiment direct into the mustard crop then?
I feel like giving you a hug Harry, but we can't - please ask Mrs Harry to give you a hug
Gave you a thumbs up Harry, though it should have been a thumbs down as far as the linseed is concerned! You never know, if other countries are down too you may get a good price, unless you've sold it forward.
Hopefully the wheat will be closer to a good yield.
Are there verieties more resistant to drought and excess water available?
Too bad about the linseed, I hope the wheat does better. I suppose that besides rain you don't have access to another source of water ?
Interesting about the Linseed yield. We had a very wet winter, then a hot spring. But in the hot spring we also had a lot of cold, clear nights. I think the crop sustained shock events because of the very high temperatures differences day and night and this may have effected yields due to plant development problems early on. Just an opinion but backed up by my poor tomato yields!
Our apple crop was decimated by late frost. It appears we'll have to rapidly adapt to climate change as there's no alternative. The next few years with Brexit will be crucial too.
@@VanderlyndenJengold Late frost is, as you say, hugely damaging and we lost all of our crab apples. This are tough buggers and I was very surprised. We measured - 6 Deg C during the last last frost of this year and it burnt off leaves of trees that are normally last to emerge.
However, the multiple shocks to the plants from hot days and cold - but not freezing - nights is known to damage plant growth. However, Harry's Linseed looked really good in flower yet produced poor yields. A lot of Linseed is grown around us in N. Oxfordshire and I guess those growers have suffered the same. The only plus side is prices may rise especially if imported Linseed gets hit by tariffs after Jan 1 2021.
We are witnessing climate change and will need to adapt.
@@VanderlyndenJengold climate change? We've ALWAYS had to contend with late frosts, they are generally quite local but entirely predictable, cold air flows downhill, so know your local conditions or speak to the old timers from your area and LISTEN to them.
@@paulmarchant9231I should have used a separate paragrapgh between my frost damge and climate change. I know enough about frost damage in my location. If you have watched Harry's videos you will know why I mention climate change.
Good video. Why not try on till and direct into the mustard cover crop ?
The more I watch, the more I understand why farmers decide to sell off land for housing as it’s just so up and down each year. I know that Harry said he’s not doing that though!
😔😔 he must be getting more monetary return in the long run from said land🙈
and we're in!
I wonder if there are any observations that can be made by a machine/drone to predict such a shortfall
I don't know much about this bigger scale agriculture, I helped my grandparents a lot but they did it mostly to themselves and the family. Maximum numbers were around 3000litres of wine and 4000kg of corn for flour and feeding animals, among other stuff like potatoes etc.
My question here is, the weath I know it's largely used for flour, but what about the linseed? Over here in Portugal I think I only see linseed in the bio and nutrition areas, because of it's fiber content etc. What is it used for beyond this?
Very interesting video as always.
Any thoughts on bringing in automated watering systems? There are many areas in the states that use them to supplement irregular rainfall. I think the system would be a large capital investment but... I don’t know how the UK allocates water to farmers (or others).
I know here in the states, depending on the state the farm is in, water and farming is a real political fubar.
those 18 foot mowers are fun to drive