2021 is even wetter than 2020 but there looks to be good times ahead for UK farmers
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- Опубликовано: 3 фев 2021
- The wet weather continues to cause problems but that's nothing compared to the consequences of the continuing Covid lockdown. Could it lead to better times for UK farming?
I am an automotive engineer, I only come on RUclips for car content ... and now you’ve got me coming for farming content 🤣 thanks Harry keep them coming !
I live in Ireland and I have been throwing stones at England for years. I didn't realise they were landing in your back garden, sorry about that. Please feel free to throw them back at me
Very funny 🇦🇺🦘👍
Are you throwing them with export paperwork now?
Damien "Paris Gun" McFarland. Or SmackFarland, because you really do smack that land that is relatively far.
@@chriswalford4161 that'd be customs tariff code 2517108000 i think.
@@zloychechen5150 : not if it’s sedimentary.
Hi Harry, the fact those stones appear is because the ground freezes an thaws. Rocks react to the temperatures change differently than the soil around it, which causes them to be pushed up from the ground. Thanks for the video, really enjoy them always!
I thought it was also a function of soil particles being smaller than stones and flowing downwards with moisture with less resistance than stones that have a larger surface area.
I don't think that explains how they appear on the surface with grass underneath them.
@@integralevideo what he said. Aliens dude. Aliens
Cows unearthing them further up and kicking them downhill?
Complete bollocks
I've been a Greenkeeper for 18 years and we've had stones raising to the surface on golf courses... Essentially when the ground is sodden and then you get a hard freeze it basically raises the whole surface of the soil/field as water expands when it freezes... When the soil raises it pulls stones up with it, but then when it thaws it contracts again but the stones remain where they were... As Greenkeepers we welcome hard freezes/frosts as it puts structure back into compacted soil, it's a good form of aeration without us having to do anything! 😊👌🏻
Found this on 'tinternet...
Here's what makes these stones mysteriously appear. Stones are better conductors of heat than soil, so the stone conducts heat away from the warmer soil beneath it. That colder soil under the rock then freezes before other dirt at the same depth.
Remember that when water freezes it expands. So, when the water in the soil under the rock freezes, it expands and pushes the rock up a little.
When the ground thaws a space is left under the stone which fills with dirt, so the stone rests a little higher. Over a period of time this repeated freezing, expanding, upward push, and filling underneath eventually shoves the rock to the surface.
And once the stone is near the surface the pressure of growth in the grass does the rest to lift the stone.
Harry your car and farming channels are some of the best on RUclips. Your vast experience and humbleness as well as the transparency you put forth in your videos is fantastic, and there's nothing else like it
Harry. Another fascinating insight into the farming industry. You have a natural flair to communicate to the audience. Keep them rolling when you can
Those stones are living, they walk about during the night and act dead when you arrive
that's some Doctor Who shit right there.
Hilarious. At least Harry's got humor :-)
Don't blink!
They could make a film called stone story.
Always an educational treat, Thanks Harry! Love the channels!
Another great video Harry. Shared to my FB group as always. Keep up the good work 👍🚜🚜
love these videos. started watching because of Harrys love of cars and motorbikes. he did a video a while ago now on his new tractor unit. was as much a great watch as all the car vids and his mega collection of Paris Dakar race bikes, in fact his farming videos are brilliant. from driving a Rolls Royce to the arctic circle and riding the bikes around Morocco to shin high in water with his wellingtons on its just so good, keep the vids coming its miles better than live tv. Thanks, Vinny. :-)
Another great video Harry. I think what people like is that the videos take time to come out and when they do, they're high quality and informative. Please keep doing this!
Great video Harry. One comment I would make with regard to planting trees on permanent pasture, is that it actually can be done in tandem with beef/sheep production. We have recently planted over 2,000 trees across permanent pasture on our farm up in Cumbria's Lyvennet Valley. This is classed as woodland pasture and we've planted it on land like yours which is unsuited to forage. It also helps to add stability to some slopes which are prone to landslip. This seems like happy medium which I hope does gather wider uptake. I'd love to hear your thoughts. Keep up the good work.
I wondered this too.
I'm very interested in this Hugh, thanks for mentioning the classification. What species did you plant and was is in open spacing or coups? Is the plan to allow growth to maturity or to pollard for example?
Totally agree - I think silvopastoral is the technical term? Big potential...
Does it not still put the land out of use for a decade or so while the saplings take root and grow enough to not be destroyed by livestock pulling the leaves off them? We planted a few, although on a much smaller scale, over a decade ago now and in the first couple of years hares damaged about half of them beyond being able to grow anymore. They're completely separate from livestock in our case. I don't know what species they are either.
@@markwright3161 I'm not sure about livestock, but simple wire cages keep the deer and elk off my small trees
Am enjoying these farm reports you are doing Harry. I find myself looking for your reports every week. Thank you.
Great video Harry. You have such a wonderful ability to communicate and your passion comes across too. Look forward to the next one.
Excellent video Harry, good to see you winter project coming along and crops looking good
Harry's wealth of knowledge is amazing.
Excellent content and a welcome reality check of the great homegrown foodstuffs that our farmers and fisherman produce that we ought to be consuming more of ourselves. I had no idea that quite so much of the excellent seafood I have enjoyed on my European holidays has probably come from the UK. It will be on my table at home now.
Always great content Harry keep it up. Really interesting about the cattle side of things.
Think you've got stones? think yourself lucky you don't get the football sized flints you get in parts of Hampshire! Love this channel Harry and especially how you tell the truth unlike the Beeb ! Good luck with the shed.
Thanks Harry excellent video always enjoy learning a tiny bit on farming take care .
Hands down the most informative farming vlog around. Learn something every video.
Again a very rich vlog Harry, with so many issues you touched upon, just great.
Love it Harry. Always a great watch. Cheers!
Great video harry, really interesting . Hopefully the rain eases of a bit. Nice hedgerow for the birds . Nice shed for the combine and the grain.
As always really informative and great, well presented video. Keep ‘em coming!
On the subject of footpaths I totally agree with your point on walkers sticking to designated tracks but on the other side of this it would also be helpful if Farmers made sure paths that run across their land are clearly marked and accessible.
Got my wife into your videos now Harry ... both love watching very interesting thank you !
Thanks Harry, another interesting, thought provoking film.
As ever a good informative video, with regards to people out walking I would of thought it’s showing respect to you the farmer to stay on the path and don’t wander off it.all the best Wayne
I am a Harrys Garage fan for a couple of years, I am quickly becoming a big fan here too. In Ireland we are big grass fed beef people too which flavour wise can't be underestimated as a worthwhile cost as a premium product. Keep beef green Harry, its all in the grass and all in the husbandry . Stay well from your subs in Ireland 🇮🇪
The Farm pushed The Garage to 2nd place this week. I was born and grew up in the Cotswolds during 70s and 80s with much time on farms. It’s fascinating to return to that land through this channel and understand how they work.
Jolly interesting and informative also enjoyable thank you so much harry always look forward to your vlogs
Top Job Harry. 'Keep those videos coming along very soon'
Well done Harry !! Keep promoting the good stuff !!
Thank you Harry. Can't help thinking there should be a quality Mark for British grass fed beef.... Love the videos!
love the vids very interesting, thanks for the entertainment during these hard times.
Another excellent video Harry. Seeing your oft-flooded pasture in that dip, I can't help but think you should dam the end & stock it with trout...
Lovely Jubbly, always something to learn.
Just watching this video and enjoying it though I'm not a farmer. Happy to subscribe and look forward to seeing more. I will be mindful of the flooding in your fields whenever I'm tempted to complain about our weather here in Northern Ireland. I hope things improve and you get just the rain you need but no flooding. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences with us. God bless.
Another great video, thank you. Sorry if someone else has made this comment, but life would be pretty good with you as a presenter on Countryfile and even better, as a presenter on Top Gear.
Cheers Harry lovely vid and a pleasure to know you're benefiting from the rain.
Intelligent insight as ever, thanks Harry..... I’m not a farmer but find your farm channel fascinating and I’m a great believer in buying British 👍
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
Everyone of these videos is an education and your way of imparting your knowledge is helping us to make more informed choices.
The RUclips channels of Harry's Garage and Harry's Farm will be joined by Harry's Harbour with all this flooding.
Be worth watching 🤣🤣
Superb, ahaha.
I have a field called "stone field" and it grows stones! it's only 4 acres but I remember as a kid picking a few tonne a year off it! It's just to do with being on a slope and ground temp.
Thank you Harry.
As ever Harry, an interesting update. As to the stones, Stone Roses, Stone Fairies, not a clue :)
The wind blows them ! 'A rolling stone gathers no moss ! Great video !
Thank you Harry, this is the only place that tells me what is happening on the UK farms.
Very watchable guy who obviously knows his stuff and also knows how to explain things in a way that people understand
I enjoy your videos and gain more understanding from them. I understand your frustration with the paths widening across your crops, we have the same situation in my area (Suffolk). However, if you choose to plough the path up, of course walkers are going to make their own way. If you leave the path unploughed (is that a word?) then people will have a path to follow. Even better, mark the path in some way, perhaps with a hedge line. As we have seen, paths such as this have become more important recently.
Great video Harry. Very interested to hear your opinions. Keep them coming!
HEDGE SOLUTION - Avant loader on tracks with suitable hedge cutter attachment. Amazingly low impact solution, and will not get stuck, with a great finish on that nice hedge. Can be hired very reasonably.
Always enjoy your videos on both channels.
Robert.
On your point about the large stones is very interesting ,I walk miles every day and have noticed the ground is changing so greatly , tree roots are coming up well above the ground and so are stones and rocks , also ancient tree roots are appearing nearby ,I have watched them slowly get bigger ,very interesting.
Great insight as usual Harry. We need to push home grown British produce, grown to high sustainable standards.
Ignorant people trampling on the crops, probably just think it’s grass!
Great video Harry 👍 thank you for the info !
Great content, no hysterics, sensible and you show your research, good for those of us who want to understand more. You are very gracious on the footpath issue, its frustrating, but not worth a confrontation, which inevitably it would be. I would gladly eat UK shellfish, just tell me where i can get it. Same for grass fed beef. I just don’t trust the large grocery labelling. Where is the local chain of “Harrys” where you can purchase local, straight from the farm food. Enjoying both channels, great stuff
Subscribed to Harry's garage some time ago but new to Harry's farm and I must say I find it really interesting 👍
Thanks Harry, as mentioned recently on Harry’s Garage, I trust and value your opinion. I would be really interested in your view of what/how we should incentivise land owners/farmers to help the environment and food supply in the Uk. Plainly you have a vested interest but I feel you will be honest in what would work in your opinion.
Foxes or Badgers scrabbling around for earthworms, they dislodge stones just under the grass because there's likely an earthworm or frog underneath... maybe
They would leave sign.
@@Ijusthopeitsquick It's on a hill. The stones might have rolled down.
Such an informative video. Your videos are very good. Thank you.
I love your intro! Yes it's been slog.
Yes the beef video was great, good information.
The best communicator on you tube..... 👍👍
I'm sure we would eat tons of shellfish but as usual the supermarkets want to pay peanuts to the suppliers yet rip the backside out of the consumers pants to buy it the price of beef and lamb is shocking in relation to what they are paying the farmers
Another very well explained video Harry , you would be well placed on country file so more folks get to know what goes on
All that local seafood & when I go into Tesco’s all I can see is Seafood from Vietnam! How messed up is that,
New Zealand has signed an upgrade to the China free trade agreement, offering some New Zealand goods faster access to Chinese markets and a reduction in tariffs. New Zealand was the first developed country to sign a free trade agreement with China, in 2008.
This modernise the free trade agreement that was signed in 2008, brings it up to date.
www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/124058012/new-zealand-signs-upgraded-free-trade-agreement-with-china
New Zealand will already have 98 per cent free trade with China, its largest trading partner, once the existing free trade agreement comes fully into force. The upgrade has primarily focused on reducing compliance costs for New Zealand exporters, and other measures which ease access to China’s markets.
@@mtl-ss1538 New Zealand is selling itself down the river - the levers being pulled to access the Chinese market have been disastrous. It's a little known fact that the immigration system in NZ favours Chinese nationals over almost anyone else. Your getting swamped. No wonder the Maori are pushing to get more recognition, their culture will disappear and you'll be left with paper dragons and wontons.
@@chrismitchell7801 Sadly I agree, ..........the Chinese are taking a leaf out of the Islamic demographics manual.
Yes! Us Kiwi's love the Chinese so much we give away our bottled spring water for nothing! Hey and guess what the biggest city in NZ has a water shortage! 😂😂
Same here in Australia.Everything from Vietnam,China and Thailand.Crazy 😫😫😫
Great video as always Harry. These have become my favourite videos on youtube. Also I can't believe people need to be told not to walk on a farmer's young crops.
HI HARRY.CANT BELIEVE YOU HAVE 16 THUMBS DOWN.WE REALLY ENJOY YOUR DOWN TO EARTH APPROACH SHOWING THE PROS AND CONS OF EVERY DAY LIFE ON THE FARM.
As a planner - thank you for your valuable videos
Thanks Harry.
Interesting as always, thanks. With regard to footpaths, there's one between what used to be two large fields near me, which was raised by several inches above the crop level. A few years back, they grubbed it out and made one *huge* field (obviously easier to work), then ran a tractor down it after planting. Unsurprisingly, it's now a *lot* wider than it used to be. So, some people really don't help themselves.
It's understandable that some farmers want to squeeze the most value out of every square meter of their land, leading them to plough up footpaths. Walkers, in turn, appreciate those farmers who mark the footpath line by rolling it after ploughing to compact the ground and reinstate the walking surface. When this happens both parties are clear about what is both intended and expected.
Thanks Harry, super update.
Great content again Harry. You think that's rain, come to Fermanagh, no crops here. Great fishing though.
If ever I need to find straight answers and get common sense and get an uplift in life I just watch Harry's Farm. Thanks Harry.
Harry for PM!!
You talk a lot of good old common sense Harry - always interesting, informative and to the point. Great video content.
There's so much aggressive polemic n the British press - particularly since the Brexit debate, it's so good to hear Harry present his case for beef. I eat meat once a week and am more than willing to pay a premium price for quality.
Really enjoyed the video as you say buy local if possible, i am lucky enough to be able
to buy our meat & eggs from a farm less than a mile from our house.
The ground here is a lot wetter than last year. If you had a public path 20yds wide
the crop would still be walked on Thanks Harry keep up the good work 👍🚜
Love what you do Harry, both here and in your garage. As someone who also has a receding hairline, the number 1 or 2 cut works wonders if you can't reach the barber's.
Agree. Ages him terribly.
Great luv these vids thanks so much. Farming and driving classic cars both however not much fun in these increasingly wet winters.
I always look forward to your reports and you are so polite about all the thoughtless walkers; excellent diplomatic skills! Do the soil samples give you soil biodiversity analyses?
Absolutely fascinating to watch and listen. I agree entirely about the foot paths that either go wrong the side or through fields, it's annoying seeing people blatantly ignore the obvious!
Thank you for the insight
Hi Harry, I'm glad I found Harry's Farm it's a great RUclips channel, I'm a typical townie and know sod all about farming it's good to have someone like yourself giving an accurate state of play then the glammed up rubbish on the telly, just wondering is growing commercial hemp a good cash crop and would it be any good in the crop circle. Thanks for the video looking forward to the next one.
Commercial scale weed would be a good cash crop, not sure about hemp though 😂
Harry makes farming interesting, for this townie anyway.
From what I've read and understand, so probably wrong/oversimplified, the UK doesn't have many shellfish purifiers. This was mainly because the shellfish expires quickly once purified, thus it used to make sense to purify near to consumption. Now, even if they could be purified here it's not much point exporting.
Hi Harry. I'm sorry to say that I've been placing those stones there. It's because I knew you'd read this comment and therefore notice me. Love your car and farming content!
Very interesting with the rocks and did not realise there was a time limit on cutting hedge rows, I have subscribed as find this educational and will use this knowledge findings on my channel. Somewhere down the wire as I am a builder that finds farm land sold off to developers. I am just a bricklayer but have my own channel .
Love both your channels, Harry. You should combine them and review tractors
Great informative video as always Harry, the stones are possibly being dug up by wildlife looking for earth worms. Good to hear that the advertising standards are going to clamp down on green washing, should bring everyone into line. 👍
Trees (quick timber ones) and pasture go like bread and butter. On our notherner land we have pastures with lumber and fruit trees (apple and cherry orchards). On the south ones, we do cork, holm oak for pig finish and cattle pasture.
We rotate the lot for better use and to not over stress the pasture, but the only minus we had was on the cork because of a fly that likes to fck it up. Well we pushed the birds that side, put some weird geese going after, plus some berries bushes and some water points and birds cared for the flies.
Bar that, no drawbacks.
Grass fed beef has more amino acids in it which is more nutritious for us to eat then grain fed and we don't need the extra fat in grain fed.
I would simply look for bare spots further up the hill where those stones came from. I'm sure the heavy rain washed them down. Good luck with the farm this year Harry!
Nice one Harry, sorry I'm late but being deaf I have to wait for the sub-titles, great video.
Wonderful Harry, great fun 🤩
Either the EU have been extremely busy making and passing new rules/laws in the past month or they are now enacting rules and laws for 3rd countries that we've spent the last 40 old years influencing.
In a nutshell.
That's right. Set a trap and promptly fell in it. The trouble is we haven't hit the bottom of it yet.
It's really come full circle eh? Still waiting on that Brexit dividend...
Peter Williamson you summed it up so very well.
I thought we held all of the cards 🤔
First - looks very very wet over there. In Melbourne during our 7 month lockdown, we did exactly what you say, we bought pork and beef directly from the companies who were supplying the restaurants as they were closed. We also continued to buy meat from our local butcher when he had supply. ( abattoirs were shutdown due to covid outbreaks in the staff) Meat growers had to setup websites and then delivered directly as their restaurant income become almost zero. Micro salad growers had to plough their crops back into the ground as there was no market for the product. It was one of the good things for us, 3 could order a side of bacon or a few tomahawk steaks with a full roll of Sirloin and have it delivered same day.
Regarding planting trees on the slope completely understand. We have a 1 mile access road to our farm house but we thought about planting a row of trees both sides of the road but the loss in cropping either side taken because of the trees would amount to thousands of dollars in losses annually.
0:00 loved to do that as a kid. The bigger puddle, the better. Ideally with some mud on the bottom. Then looked for a puddle that was clean, so my shows would be spotless. Wet, but no dirt on them. And full of water inside. But who cared. I was a kid.
Really enjoy the science behind farming. Far more technical than I realised.
Fantastic thanks.
🚜 great update 👍🏻🏴
Top man Harry thanks for the video