No offence to Harry, but he's a retired, very rich man. Farming is his "hobby", and that's ok. Just wish he would actually give the numbers and not hide behind "it's been hard for us farmers this ****" Harry you're SET for life! The rest of the country is fucked btw.
@@tbrowniscoolhe's pretty busy for a retired man. Though yes he's not on the bread line. Fyi Harry has been farming since the 80s, it seems farming is a hobby probably because he loves doing it and this comes across. The Evo magazine stuff and cars in general, would be more his hobby if you had to choose. Harry is pretty upfront with his farm financial results, astonishing to see how little take home pay there is some seasons. The details are in the long term $ performance which given he hasn't sold up after all these years means he's been successful, ergo his ability to enjoy his actual hobbies.
I enjoy the videos yet I'm far off being a fanboy of Mr Harry's like some viewers are. A range of farmers views would be pretty good to hear, I have a look on RUclips yet can't say I have found many as watchable. Harry does come across well. Comfortable on screen, personable, informative.
This is absolutely fascinating. Why was I learning what a Roman soldier’s hat was called in school when I should have been learning more about farming, food and the planet. Great video Mr Metcalfe
Exraordinarily effective example of explaining current farming practices and methods. If only more people could see this and understand what is happening to farming and food production. Great job Harry.
Because of the wonderful education you give us city dwellers I cheered when I saw the moisture score! Said c’mon 14 to myself as you stuck the probe in 😂
The investment in equipment would strike you as being 'massive.' On the management side, there are items like crop insurance, in addition to anticipating the market as to what to plant and how many acres of each. Sell early? Store for later sales?
As always, very informative and interesting. I always find the "sidebars" (like the tidbit on diesel use for modern vs. organic farming) enlightening. It may seem obvious, but after watching Harry's Farm for a couple of years, I realize if you want to be a farmer, you really have to want to be a farmer!
As an ex- farm labourer, I find all the videos very interesting, it’s good to keep abreast of all the changes in modern agriculture. It’s also quite alarming that it seems, governments around the world seem to want to pay farmers to do nothing with their land rather than produce food. It seems utterly bizarre that they would sooner pay you to grow a cover crop/ non harvestable crop, than food 🤔 Keep up the good work Harry, more videos please
It’s almost as if they want less food available such that demand, and prices, rise. I’d be interested in a ratio of farmland % employed for food production against farmland available.
That was happening in the UK during the early 80's , the setaside scheme. What was worse was , you had to grow the crop , then let it rot under Defra (i think) rules. But , and theres always a but ,due to complaints early on by folk complaining about the total waste these fields had to be kept away from main roads so no-one would take much notice of this farcical scheme. And dont start me on milk quotas and premium payments during this era lol !
@@PHILCHUDS yep set aside was the start of it all. Didnthis not come after the “grain mountains “ so we can produce enough food to feed the world but we’re not allowed to. Yet there is war in the Ukraine which enables Putin to dictate the price on the world market, and because we aren’t producing, everyone is effected. Somebody please correct me if I’m wrong
A really interesting video Harry. My family farmed up until 1949 in Hampshire. If my father was still alive he would never believe the equipment and farming methods of today. Particularly as they struggled all through the war with basic machinery and little labour to assist.
I remember when I was in 20's working for grain merchants at a weigh bridge station and having to jump into the trailers to get samples of grain for testing..it was hard work.
I keep telling myself I have made Hay in September. Can't get the cereal harvest over quick enough so as we can make some forage for our highlands.. These low depressions coming in do give one a headache we could do without. My wife says she is fed up with me continually looking at Met office 5 day weather maps. will it miss us?
Some interesting points on the organic vs non organic argument. 👍Great to see modern tech being used to not only reduce fuel use and carbon footprint etc but also maximise efficiency and productivity in an industry facing so many problems it has no control over.
What is really exciting are the new systems being developed using AI. You drive the [it it drives autonomously] the tractor across the field and the cameras know every SINGLY plant in the field and they can recognise which insects are beneficial and leave them, which other plants and crops are wanted BUT it can spot the weeds and the pests and it kills them individually with lasers. It also fertilises each plant individually depending on how its done. So every individual plant in a 1000 acre field is farmed individually with no chemicals. The systems are under test on farms in California.
@@alexdrockhound9497 Oh we are definitely at the prototype stage - this is not the one I saw - but its similar ruclips.net/user/shortsoUKN1irxP-U?si=Pbvrc1iOYqmuLdD0 AH this one is very similar ruclips.net/video/sV0cR_Nhac0/видео.htmlsi=5eZuTCeqckcos0Kf The one I saw was a black box on the back of a tractor - but essentially many of these systems are in the trial phase. What is also great is perennial wheat and barely that they are developing. You DONT replant every year. It grows back. They already have perennial rice crops. this allows the roots to go down further for water so yo dont need to irrigate the same. It allows them to grow much bigger and stronger as they are not starting from seed every year. They create ground cover so they limit the growth of weeds. Cereal crops are a development of crops that would normally grow after a fire - so they need a destroeyd landscape with no competition - hence the chemicals like roundup. If we can have perennial cereal crops this would be a MASSIVE leap forward.
Quite like the idea of a Harry's farm machinery review. What the latest tractor, combine has to offer. All helps to teach how my food reaches the supermarket plus just love machines.
Harry I love the car channel but I have found this channel invaluable at explaining problems in farming with all my family - they all now understand cabbage stem flea Beatle even if they don't want to.....thank you again j😊😊
I was riding my Honda Goldwing down a local road a few years ago when a combine came across the road way too close to my path of travel. The combine was equipped with the first of the self-steer units and the farmer was either asleep or very distracted and forgot he had to turn at the end of the field. I should have sent him a bill for the cleaning of my underwear. If I was another very few seconds earlier I would have been "Reaped."
Drove by the combine when it stopped due to the rain, was gutted for you. For me in the north the cows are loving the weather and the ground they are on.
Harry, great Information on the fields... who knew ? Basic knowledge goes a long way. Sunflowers didn’t do well here because less heat and sun this summer. A treat for in-ground vegetables, however. We just threw the seed in and reaped the crop weeks later
I like the idea of having an over sized combine, but little drying facility. On another matter I remember West Country Farming and Farming Diary programmes in my youth, they were scrapped as the population became less rural. Harry's Farm should be on main stream TV.
Thank you Harry, for another greate and very interesting video. Harry's Farm is definitely one of my favorite RUclips channels. Keep up the good work :) Cheers from Denmark
A full "motoring" type combine and tractor review would be fascinating. And Harry must be the perfect guy to do it. Farm machinery has moved-on so much - my last experience was a 1958 grey Fergie !
Are farmers taking a partial cut around several wheat fields to get a better moisture content average AND let the breeze get into the remainder of the crop to dry it out.
They are doing that where I live. They do a couple of circuits around the headland with the combine and then leave it 24 hours and it noticeably improves the moisture as the breeze gets into the main part of the crop better. The less dry headland grain is tipped in a different pile at the farm, to be dried separately; the hope being that they won't then need to dry the main part of the crop by cutting it this way.
Interesting about the airline. The New Holland combine I use has a compressor as standard along with two air line points. Really invaluable for dusting down! Great video as always, nice to wind down to after a long day harvesting 😂
So very interesting. I studied agriculture at Seale-Hayne 1958-1961. We didn’t even dream of the subsequent advances in agricultural machinery. Thanks Harry.
Love the Videos Harry, i learn something every season and greatly appreciate your time and efforts you all put in to the videos. Give Stanley a belly rub too, hes always the star of the video.
Thanks Harry. As a student of agriculture back in the late 70's/early 80's who then changed direction, I would love to see a video about modern machinery, esp the use of GPS.
What is really exciting are the new systems being developed using AI. You drive the [it it drives autonomously] the tractor across the field and the cameras know every SINGLY plant in the field and they can recognise which insects are beneficial and leave them, which other plants and crops are wanted BUT it can spot the weeds and the pests and it kills them individually with lasers. It also fertilises each plant individually depending on how its done. So every individual plant in a 1000 acre field is farmed individually with no chemicals. The systems are under test on farms in California.
The dairy industry has been much changed by milking stations: each cow has a chip on her ear tag that is read. Information includes last milking time, gestation cycle, current feed ration, milk yield... Sensors position the milking cups. Skilled milkers are hard to come by. For several years now, they have been obsolescent.
I just LOVE Harry's Farm - I learn something every time I watch. Harry - you should find a way of making your vids essential - compulsory? - viewing for all in the Dept of Agriculture!
Great work as usual Harry. Your videos are a brilliant window into the some of the mysteries, triumphs and tribulations of farming life in the UK. Here in Australia we also marvel at the technology that allows the creation of impossibly straight crop lines running into the distance across our often huge paddocks, and at the right time of year the glorious spectacle of yellow canola (OSR) stretching as far as the eye can see or smelling the lovely fragrance of a crop of flowering beans on a warm evening. Please keep up the good work for all of us that cannot do what you do but appreciate it just the same.
Seems there's a lot of heavy traffic on the fields. The thing with the rings does not go deep. Does not the soil compact underneath causing water retention? I understood some of the reasons for ploughing was to get oxygen into the soil to help with worm assist to break down veg matter - so increasing the soil's humas content which helped to make it all better. A utube vid from the USA tells of a grower putting goat manure on the veg plot. Plants grew well then all died. Reckoning was that the hay the goats had, had been sprayed with selective weed killer which remained in the hay wich remained in the goat dung which killed the new plants.
The automated tractors are somewhat more efficient on fuel, but what’s the carbon footprint of all the electronics? What’s their lifetime? Will the increase in efficiency when tilling pay off before the electronics break?
Great air pump hack. "One weird trick Big Dust Blower doesn't want you to know!" Also, revelation that people buying organic foot are INCREASING their carbon footpring, not reducing it!
Going back nearly half a century....we used to burn off any excess straw that wouldnt be bailed for bedding.... then turn the ash into the soil with manure....who needs fertiliser....?.... swapped the crops around the fields every year.... rotation is key....wheat or barley one year then it'd be about six years before wheat or barley was grown in the same field....it worked well.
It’s all based on ‘measures’. Basically a menu from which the farmer selects & then gets paid for what’s done. Stuff like the wild bird cover & reinstating the hedges Harry mentioned, will all count. Same with the field the hay was on. He’ll be getting a compensation payment because he can’t cut until 15th July.
I grew up in/near the country and so helped my friends on their farms, always about with farm equipment so I know a lot of this stuff and I learned a lot. But still Harry's video's are so informative that you learn more. This is the kind of thing the Government should be watching, understanding and listening to, but they won't. Another great video Harry, thanks 👍
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This really should be played in schools (and to MP's) fascinating stuff as always.
Absolutely agree. And to everyone working for DEFRA
@alicetickle yes definitely.
Apart from the carbon footprint bullshit at the end.
Yes!
Used to watch Farming Diary when I was young.
The man should be a presenters on countryfile he just brings farming alive. well done Harry 👌
No offence to Harry, but he's a retired, very rich man. Farming is his "hobby", and that's ok.
Just wish he would actually give the numbers and not hide behind "it's been hard for us farmers this ****" Harry you're SET for life!
The rest of the country is fucked btw.
@@tbrowniscoolhe's pretty busy for a retired man. Though yes he's not on the bread line. Fyi Harry has been farming since the 80s, it seems farming is a hobby probably because he loves doing it and this comes across. The Evo magazine stuff and cars in general, would be more his hobby if you had to choose. Harry is pretty upfront with his farm financial results, astonishing to see how little take home pay there is some seasons. The details are in the long term $ performance which given he hasn't sold up after all these years means he's been successful, ergo his ability to enjoy his actual hobbies.
@@JR-ii4lq Says who? You? What is your proof?
In fairness he’s not a ‘blonde presenter in goretex and Dubarrys chancing upon a dreadlocked vegan foraging for leaves’
Don't think country file and farming have much in common.
Always good to see Harry separating the wheat from the chaff
😆🤣😀
He's also going to make hay while the sun shines
Or chavs. I think they watch Carwow, not Harry 😊
Which he didn't do in this video.
I enjoy the videos yet I'm far off being a fanboy of Mr Harry's like some viewers are. A range of farmers views would be pretty good to hear, I have a look on RUclips yet can't say I have found many as watchable. Harry does come across well. Comfortable on screen, personable, informative.
You and JC have done more to raise the profile of UK agriculture than any others farmers / journalists…well done both 👏👏👏👏👏
Who is JC ?
@@stevenbevis9290 Sent by the big G, died on a cross for our sins 😁
JC = Clarkson…
@@stevenbevis9290 Jeremy Clarkson.
@@stevenbevis9290Jeremy Clarkson. A neighbour of Harry’s
Harry all that dust and no mask!
This is absolutely fascinating. Why was I learning what a Roman soldier’s hat was called in school when I should have been learning more about farming, food and the planet. Great video Mr Metcalfe
Exraordinarily effective example of explaining current farming practices and methods. If only more people could see this and understand what is happening to farming and food production. Great job Harry.
Because of the wonderful education you give us city dwellers I cheered when I saw the moisture score! Said c’mon 14 to myself as you stuck the probe in 😂
"C'mon 14, daddy needs a new pair of shoes!" 😅
Harry as a city person living surrounded by farms has always amazed me how it all must work… I appreciate you demystifying it all piece by piece.
The investment in equipment would strike you as being 'massive.' On the management side, there are items like crop insurance, in addition to anticipating the market as to what to plant and how many acres of each. Sell early? Store for later sales?
@@jamesellsworth9673👍🙏
Harry did his apprenticeship in farming in his late teens , he has always been a farmer
@@colinhoward74 I think that the OP is referring to himself. 😉
As always, very informative and interesting. I always find the "sidebars" (like the tidbit on diesel use for modern vs. organic farming) enlightening. It may seem obvious, but after watching Harry's Farm for a couple of years, I realize if you want to be a farmer, you really have to want to be a farmer!
Producing food Harry, with modern methods, fantastic. Wish “citified” folk would watch this reality.
Interesting insight into why a field is the field, it is 👍
As an ex- farm labourer, I find all the videos very interesting, it’s good to keep abreast of all the changes in modern agriculture.
It’s also quite alarming that it seems, governments around the world seem to want to pay farmers to do nothing with their land rather than produce food. It seems utterly bizarre that they would sooner pay you to grow a cover crop/ non harvestable crop, than food 🤔
Keep up the good work Harry, more videos please
Almost as if it’s planned to keep food costs high?
It’s almost as if they want less food available such that demand, and prices, rise. I’d be interested in a ratio of farmland % employed for food production against farmland available.
That was happening in the UK during the early 80's , the setaside scheme. What was worse was , you had to grow the crop , then let it rot under Defra (i think) rules. But , and theres always a but ,due to complaints early on by folk complaining about the total waste these fields had to be kept away from main roads so no-one would take much notice of this farcical scheme. And dont start me on milk quotas and premium payments during this era lol !
@@PHILCHUDS was that the pouring the milk down the drains?
@@PHILCHUDS yep set aside was the start of it all. Didnthis not come after the “grain mountains “ so we can produce enough food to feed the world but we’re not allowed to. Yet there is war in the Ukraine which enables Putin to dictate the price on the world market, and because we aren’t producing, everyone is effected. Somebody please correct me if I’m wrong
A really interesting video Harry. My family farmed up until 1949 in Hampshire. If my father was still alive he would never believe the equipment and farming methods of today. Particularly as they struggled all through the war with basic machinery and little labour to assist.
Love the fuel usage comments at the end. Local farmer had a huge rant about that a couple of years ago.
Love seeing Stanley out on the farm with you.
I remember when I was in 20's working for grain merchants at a weigh bridge station and having to jump into the trailers to get samples of grain for testing..it was hard work.
I really enjoyed this video, thanks for sharing it with us!
Thanks, Harry. Very interesting 😊
Nice Land Rover at 2:01 😉
I keep telling myself I have made Hay in September. Can't get the cereal harvest over quick enough so as we can make some forage for our highlands.. These low depressions coming in do give one a headache we could do without. My wife says she is fed up with me continually looking at Met office 5 day weather maps. will it miss us?
Great weather over here in northern Ireland hope you getting it good for your grain
Some interesting points on the organic vs non organic argument. 👍Great to see modern tech being used to not only reduce fuel use and carbon footprint etc but also maximise efficiency and productivity in an industry facing so many problems it has no control over.
What is really exciting are the new systems being developed using AI. You drive the [it it drives autonomously] the tractor across the field and the cameras know every SINGLY plant in the field and they can recognise which insects are beneficial and leave them, which other plants and crops are wanted BUT it can spot the weeds and the pests and it kills them individually with lasers. It also fertilises each plant individually depending on how its done.
So every individual plant in a 1000 acre field is farmed individually with no chemicals. The systems are under test on farms in California.
it also helps a lot with minimizing fertilizer usage and thus runoff. Also reduces produce costs.
@@piccalillipit9211 thats the plan at least, but i dont think we even have prototypes that can do that yet.
@@alexdrockhound9497 Oh we are definitely at the prototype stage - this is not the one I saw - but its similar ruclips.net/user/shortsoUKN1irxP-U?si=Pbvrc1iOYqmuLdD0
AH this one is very similar ruclips.net/video/sV0cR_Nhac0/видео.htmlsi=5eZuTCeqckcos0Kf
The one I saw was a black box on the back of a tractor - but essentially many of these systems are in the trial phase. What is also great is perennial wheat and barely that they are developing. You DONT replant every year. It grows back. They already have perennial rice crops. this allows the roots to go down further for water so yo dont need to irrigate the same. It allows them to grow much bigger and stronger as they are not starting from seed every year. They create ground cover so they limit the growth of weeds.
Cereal crops are a development of crops that would normally grow after a fire - so they need a destroeyd landscape with no competition - hence the chemicals like roundup.
If we can have perennial cereal crops this would be a MASSIVE leap forward.
Please wear a mask when blowing out all that dust. Great informative video as usual.
I enjoy all your videos thank you Harry
Quite like the idea of a Harry's farm machinery review. What the latest tractor, combine has to offer. All helps to teach how my food reaches the supermarket plus just love machines.
Harry I love the car channel but I have found this channel invaluable at explaining problems in farming with all my family - they all now understand cabbage stem flea Beatle even if they don't want to.....thank you again j😊😊
I was riding my Honda Goldwing down a local road a few years ago when a combine came across the road way too close to my path of travel. The combine was equipped with the first of the self-steer units and the farmer was either asleep or very distracted and forgot he had to turn at the end of the field. I should have sent him a bill for the cleaning of my underwear. If I was another very few seconds earlier I would have been "Reaped."
Great video Harry cheers from Greg in Australia 🇦🇺 😊
The mention of tractor driving made me think… how about a Harry’s Garage special (possibly at Xmas) where you road your tractor? Would be interesting!
The English bull terrier...brilliant.
Harry, please use a mask when you’re blowing away the dust on the combine.
I normally do but I wanted to grab a quick bit of b-roll of blowing out the air filter for the video, hence no mask on this occasion.
Drove by the combine when it stopped due to the rain, was gutted for you. For me in the north the cows are loving the weather and the ground they are on.
and a small clip of Stanley :P i have written to my local MP asking them some tough questions about food production in the UK.
Harry, great Information on the fields... who knew ? Basic knowledge goes a long way. Sunflowers didn’t do well here because less heat and sun this summer. A treat for in-ground vegetables, however. We just threw the seed in and reaped the crop weeks later
I like the idea of having an over sized combine, but little drying facility. On another matter I remember West Country Farming and Farming Diary programmes in my youth, they were scrapped as the population became less rural. Harry's Farm should be on main stream TV.
Thank you Harry, for another greate and very interesting video. Harry's Farm is definitely one of my favorite RUclips channels. Keep up the good work :) Cheers from Denmark
Excellent ! The sense spoken per minute is wonderful.
Hands up, who wants to see Harry take the Combine along his road test route, zipping through the S bend!!?? ;-)
A full "motoring" type combine and tractor review would be fascinating. And Harry must be the perfect guy to do it. Farm machinery has moved-on so much - my last experience was a 1958 grey Fergie !
As long as he doesn`t go down the Shilton dip.
Harry you really need to have a farm walk with Olly Harrison (Olly Blogs) great guy singing off the same page as you (even has a GR Yaris)🤞
In my part of the USA, we called the 'fluffing' 'tedding.' That equipment or similar was called a tedder.
Its also called that in the UK among other names.. I have always called it tedding or turning 👍
Are farmers taking a partial cut around several wheat fields to get a better moisture content average AND let the breeze get into the remainder of the crop to dry it out.
They are doing that where I live. They do a couple of circuits around the headland with the combine and then leave it 24 hours and it noticeably improves the moisture as the breeze gets into the main part of the crop better. The less dry headland grain is tipped in a different pile at the farm, to be dried separately; the hope being that they won't then need to dry the main part of the crop by cutting it this way.
Great to see all the conbining underway at last. Watch the dust and the air when you use and air line to shift! PPE
2:26 “it just fits down the lanes around here..” lol 😅
Brilliant, thanks for telling the truth on organic!
Great to see harvest moving along. Love the content
You are educating many people through these videos and this is really important. Thank you for all your work on this.
Fascinating incite Harry many thanks !
Interesting about the airline. The New Holland combine I use has a compressor as standard along with two air line points. Really invaluable for dusting down! Great video as always, nice to wind down to after a long day harvesting 😂
Fascinating, thanks Harry.
So very interesting. I studied agriculture at Seale-Hayne 1958-1961. We didn’t even dream of the subsequent advances in agricultural machinery. Thanks Harry.
Hi Harry, Good news that you have "positives" in your farming, long may it continue.
Glad you’ve got some grain in your shed and you’ve had a bit of luck with the moisture
"And I will never get bored of it". "Impossibly satisfying". Your enthusiasm is infectious Harry, thanks for sharing it with us.
Always love these farm videos.
Really interesting video puts country file to shame great work Harry 👍👍
Great video. It's like I've just been to see my favorite uncle on his farm!
Informative stuff. Very enjoyable.
Love all the car stuff but seeing farming tech is great too lets see it all harry
Looking forward to next year's MAIZE CROP.
Great video Harry really informative especially for non farmers 👍
Very accurate and professional explanation ,thanks !!!🥸
Love the Videos Harry, i learn something every season and greatly appreciate your time and efforts you all put in to the videos. Give Stanley a belly rub too, hes always the star of the video.
Great content, you're a great teacher. Cheers from Canada 🍁
Thanks Harry. As a student of agriculture back in the late 70's/early 80's who then changed direction, I would love to see a video about modern machinery, esp the use of GPS.
What is really exciting are the new systems being developed using AI. You drive the [it it drives autonomously] the tractor across the field and the cameras know every SINGLY plant in the field and they can recognise which insects are beneficial and leave them, which other plants and crops are wanted BUT it can spot the weeds and the pests and it kills them individually with lasers. It also fertilises each plant individually depending on how its done.
So every individual plant in a 1000 acre field is farmed individually with no chemicals. The systems are under test on farms in California.
The dairy industry has been much changed by milking stations: each cow has a chip on her ear tag that is read. Information includes last milking time, gestation cycle, current feed ration, milk yield... Sensors position the milking cups. Skilled milkers are hard to come by. For several years now, they have been obsolescent.
Very interesting about the different diesel usages , if the soil is drier it termed as being more friable .
One the best HF yet. Loved getting the straight lines on the field
I would love a new combine demo video.
Good luck Harry, keep up the great work. Its been a very tricky couple of months down in Devon too.
Great technical insight as ever Harry, great video.
Thoroughly enjoyable video and very informative 👍🏻🏴
Very interesting video. Bob
I wonder what weather we'll get over the winter harry. More crazy probably!
You're definitely more upbeat in this video compared to the last one Harry. 👍👍😊😊
I just LOVE Harry's Farm - I learn something every time I watch. Harry - you should find a way of making your vids essential - compulsory? - viewing for all in the Dept of Agriculture!
Great work as usual Harry. Your videos are a brilliant window into the some of the mysteries, triumphs and tribulations of farming life in the UK. Here in Australia we also marvel at the technology that allows the creation of impossibly straight crop lines running into the distance across our often huge paddocks, and at the right time of year the glorious spectacle of yellow canola (OSR) stretching as far as the eye can see or smelling the lovely fragrance of a crop of flowering beans on a warm evening. Please keep up the good work for all of us that cannot do what you do but appreciate it just the same.
Fascinating, educational, adaptability, dedication, all in one video thank you Harry.. Great to see harvest moving along. Love the content.
Wonderful explanatory videos of the farm . The government could learn a thing or two about the trials of farming if only they watched
Good video Harry, lots of good info on farming.
Great film Harry, congrats on getting the wheat in! This really is a superb channel! 😀👏👍 PS Stanley sure has grown! 😀
Fascinating, educational, adaptability, dedication, all in one video thank you Harry.
Love your panerai Harry 👍
Seems there's a lot of heavy traffic on the fields. The thing with the rings does not go deep. Does not the soil compact underneath causing water retention?
I understood some of the reasons for ploughing was to get oxygen into the soil to help with worm assist to break down veg matter - so increasing the soil's humas content which helped to make it all better.
A utube vid from the USA tells of a grower putting goat manure on the veg plot. Plants grew well then all died. Reckoning was that the hay the goats had, had been sprayed with selective weed killer which remained in the hay wich remained in the goat dung which killed the new plants.
Our Dawson did 65t on 4.51/ha...😮
As always very interesting
Great video. Glad you’re getting the crops harvested.
Harry, your combine looks very much like another combine named Frank, could be relatives?
Love your farm and motorcycle videos
Cheers!
Can definitely tell its that time of year, lots of tractors about so definitely exercising extra caution! But all for a good cause.
The automated tractors are somewhat more efficient on fuel, but what’s the carbon footprint of all the electronics? What’s their lifetime? Will the increase in efficiency when tilling pay off before the electronics break?
Great insight on the soil! Thanks Harry
Tedding the hay would be the term to describe what the machine was doing 'lifting,spreading and turning.
Love these vids
Brilliant as always Harry. Thank you very much.
Love the reality challenge of how this all comes together in terms of eco and energy.
Great air pump hack. "One weird trick Big Dust Blower doesn't want you to know!"
Also, revelation that people buying organic foot are INCREASING their carbon footpring, not reducing it!
Going back nearly half a century....we used to burn off any excess straw that wouldnt be bailed for bedding.... then turn the ash into the soil with manure....who needs fertiliser....?.... swapped the crops around the fields every year.... rotation is key....wheat or barley one year then it'd be about six years before wheat or barley was grown in the same field....it worked well.
...and we didn't have the technology of fancy gadgets.... we had manual analogue concentration skills back then...
Really interesting! Learnt lots and some road tests of new farm machinery would be great
Great progress at last Harry,fingers crossed No Combine issues as in last few years🤞
What will Harry's farm be next year if he choose to go down Sustainable Farming Incentive route
Just be sitting in his rocking chair watching the trees grow.
Harry's nature park
It’s not sustainable farming, food doesn’t come into it. It keeps the eco lunatics happy but does nothing for our food security.
It’s all based on ‘measures’. Basically a menu from which the farmer selects & then gets paid for what’s done.
Stuff like the wild bird cover & reinstating the hedges Harry mentioned, will all count.
Same with the field the hay was on. He’ll be getting a compensation payment because he can’t cut until 15th July.
Harry will be spending many extra hours struggling to complete on line forms correctly , trust me!
I grew up in/near the country and so helped my friends on their farms, always about with farm equipment so I know a lot of this stuff and I learned a lot. But still Harry's video's are so informative that you learn more. This is the kind of thing the Government should be watching, understanding and listening to, but they won't. Another great video Harry, thanks 👍