After all the summer rain, the 2023 wheat harvest is finally underway
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- It's been a long wait for the weather to improve but we have finally started combining wheat over a year after we had finished last year's harvest..
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.
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!" 😅
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.
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.
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.
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
Interesting insight into why a field is the field, it is 👍
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
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
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!
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.
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. 😉
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 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?
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
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.
Great to see harvest moving along. Love the content
Good luck Harry, keep up the great work. Its been a very tricky couple of months down in Devon too.
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.
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.
Hi Harry, Good news that you have "positives" in your farming, long may it continue.
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.
Growing seeds for local birds is like money in the bank for birds to keep insect pests down .
also good for the ground & wildlife in spare paddocks near tree areas
Might be a bit of confusion here chaps . The bird food crop is left unharvested for winter visitors . Obviously 😂seed eating species . Not sure what insect pests these birds eat and on which crops . If you know p,ease explain
@@barkershill Oh right, I was assuming that the seed was being harvested to be sold to consumers to feed wild birds in their gardens etc!
Hi Harry! Can we expect a 1-year solar review video? Id be very interested in performance and economics. Especially after sich a rainy july.
Looking forward to next year's MAIZE CROP.
It’s a dire predicament we are in when government subsidies which pull away from growing food drive our farming decisions.
Harry did talk at some length about why he is taking out some acreage over winter in a recent video. I can see his logic, it's about keeping the books in the black.
Harry is getting subsidies to not grow a loss making rape seed crop to grow a more sustainable mix that will improve the efficency of his other fields. So no, the governement is not giving “subsidies which pull away from growing food”. Stop repeating pub platitudes.
Yeah I don't blame him for doing it at all but the fact that that's the better option rather than growing food is pretty shocking
Just so they can fudge the figures on emissions because they don't count imported food so they drive all farming into other countries that don't care about emissions essentially causing much higher overall energy usage but out of sight out of mind as far as the politicians are concerned.
you would know your ground well if u had to walk behind the plough like they had to .........
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?
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.
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 👍
Our Dawson did 65t on 4.51/ha...😮
Always love these farm videos.
As a livestock farmer in Devon i hate seeing straw being chopped.........it makes the straw we buy in dearer to buy.........find a local farmer to take your straw then have some muck back in return and spread that on your fields
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.
Love all the car stuff but seeing farming tech is great too lets see it all harry
Thanks, Harry. Very interesting 😊
It took Harry to make farming fascinating for the layman. Perhaps it’s the absence of BS
Great video Harry cheers from Greg in Australia 🇦🇺 😊
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.
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)🤞
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!
Great to see all the conbining underway at last. Watch the dust and the air when you use and air line to shift! PPE
Great weather over here in northern Ireland hope you getting it good for your grain
No no no. Never blow out your air filters. It does more harm than good. I've seen a few damaged engines due to this poor practice. You'll damage the media and blow the dust back around and inside it. Just change them when you think they need it. They're cheap enough.
Never heard that one before been blowing filters for the last 40 years Never knackered an engine must have been blowing them the right way from inside out
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."
Harry all that dust and no mask!
Informative stuff. Very enjoyable.
Great technical insight as ever Harry, great video.
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 film Harry, congrats on getting the wheat in! This really is a superb channel! 😀👏👍 PS Stanley sure has grown! 😀
Interesting point regarding diesel consumption on organic v conventional farms. Do you have any insight regarding the embedded carbon associated with the manufacture of artificial fertilisers and herbicides etc ? Presumably these at least partly counteract the savings you are able to make wrt reduced cultivation.
Carbon is life, we are all Carbon units
I really enjoyed this video, thanks for sharing it with us!
Nice video, good job!!
I'd like invite you for my channel to see harvest in Poland.
Length of air pipe will not reduce pressure. I think Harry you’ve conflated air with fluid hydraulic resistance.
Excellent! Thank-you. Sharing.
Ps 'Farmers' Glory' for soil types by field.
Tedding as a term for turning hay? As on 'Just a few Acres' on RUclips.
Mixed farming is the regenerative way: Gabe Brown at al in midwest USA.
Ironic that organic produce will have a higher carbon footprint. That doesn’t get publicised!
Excellent ! The sense spoken per minute is wonderful.
Wonderful explanatory videos of the farm . The government could learn a thing or two about the trials of farming if only they watched
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!
Comparing carbon footprint of conventional vs. Organic....should you not also include carbon in manufacture of fertilizer and sprays as well as diesel used to apply them?
Why do you keep refering to 'the other farm'? How many farms do you have??
Two. One he owns, one he rents.
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
There's some other bloke called Harry who lives near you, does car reviews..... I wonder if he got held up in a Porsche behind your combine? 🤣
Nice Land Rover at 2:01 😉
Do you think drones will become mainstay on farms? I watched some DJi video of a huge drone spraying fields and it was sort of unnerving to see that autonomus flying giant going around the field.
Hi Harry. In a previous video you mentioned DEFRA had invited you in for a chat. Did that happen??
hi Harry. interesting about combine and tractor tech. amazing but the cost is ludicrous unless you own massive acres. it disnt actually help the bottom line except fir the very largest farmers . sure its relevant on 40000 acres in Canada. but the fabric of the country side in ireland and UK is small agricultural holdings. whose the winner here
Love seeing Stanley out on the farm with you.
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.
The bio boys should send in the pigs to sort the plowing, then goats, horses and cows. Some chicken mobiles against fly eggs and we got a holistic solution for the modern farmer.
Here in sweden the "workers" (document writers and conference goers) wants a three day work week, so they could be sent out as day laborers and pay a gym fee for the privilege to work the farms.
Very accurate and professional explanation ,thanks !!!🥸
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.
Tedding the hay would be the term to describe what the machine was doing 'lifting,spreading and turning.
Really interesting! Learnt lots and some road tests of new farm machinery would be great
You're definitely more upbeat in this video compared to the last one Harry. 👍👍😊😊
Why is this multi millionaire landlord pretending he is just a farmer??
r.e. Weeds: What do you think of the laser technology that uses AI to recognise weeds and then zap them? It seems that you need very flat soil for it to work, but it seems interesting none-the-less.
Making hay is always better done slowly according to my girlfriend lol.
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.
How much carbon is emitted from the production of glyphosate per liter? That needs to factored in
I'm not sure why but it bothers me that Harry's Farm uses a capital F however Harry's garage uses a small g..
Please wear a mask when blowing out all that dust. Great informative video as usual.
Any desire to move away from glyphosate, Harry?
We would love to help you with replanting the hedging and trees.
i bet if you did some core drilling, youd find that the soil types are directly linked to an underlaying rock type.
Hopefully you usually wear a mask when cleaning your machinery with an air line
Love your videos, glad harvest is looking good. Where do you buy your boots?
Have you ever tried no till Harry?
Farmers will use even less diesel next year when they are all growing government funded weeds instead of food.
Great progress at last Harry,fingers crossed No Combine issues as in last few years🤞
Tedding might be word your looking for when you said turning
Very interesting about the different diesel usages , if the soil is drier it termed as being more friable .
Love the fuel usage comments at the end. Local farmer had a huge rant about that a couple of years ago.
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...
I build massive computer and networking systems which mystifies non-computer people. I get an impression of their bafflement when I consider everything that a farmer needs to consider these days. It's absolutely fascinating
Wel the two are becoming one - I just commented to another guy: 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's a Harry's farm video...Ooooh Arrrrgh
Indeed Fascinating information on modern farming. Very educational.
Great insight on the soil! Thanks Harry
Great video. Glad you’re getting the crops harvested.