FARM UPDATE 130 PLANT SUGAR BEET, CHECK SONG BIRD FEEDERS, CALIBRATE WEIGHBRIDGE
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
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Hello Andrew, Thank You for another great video, so interesting. The weather has been very trying now for a long time, I wish You well with your planting , We need more warmth, tonight, Tuesday, after a nice warm day here it has gone very cold again. Not conducive to growth of grass or cereals or anything else !
Best Wishes
Philip Edwards
What an incredibly accurate drill that Vaderstad is, placement, depth spacing and rate.
Great video's. Always very interesting. Well it's raining again here in Hampshire this morning 17/4/23.
It’s relentless isn’t it.
Cracking looking planter that Valderstad.
Anything but the long runs we call short ground here in Cornwall Andrew, another great update from you again
That’s fairly self explanatory!
We call it short as well, (Herefordshire)
We’ve come along way since the single row beet harvester and it’s attendant Stanhay type drill thanks for video
Bit of cloud not a bad think if weather stays wet help to stop capping
Wheat after beans in our experience here with heavy clay and wet conditions is incredible. Even better than after sugarbeet and potatoes. The beans dont come out great, they get a lot of fungal disease and dont yield very well, but they are the best for rotation and yield for wheat
Thanks for that, reassuring to know.
Nice video as always Andrew last week we had one nice day rest off the week it rain rain on saturday nice to day any way see you mid week take care all off you .
Very nice veido !
An amazing outfit to drill that beet.
I’m always worried Nalla is going to get run over. Lovely dog though.
I keep my eye on her and she’s quite aware but thank you, I’d hate for anything to happen to her.
Excellent video Thank you for posting I am a non farmer so all these videos you produce I find so informative Thankyou.
Pleased you’re enjoying them.
Good job done by Ed with the beet seed. That balcony rail doesn't look complicated until you sit down and think about it, or get on with making it. Hats off to Ian for getting it to look so good and keeping it straight. Thank you for another interesting update.
It took some making, all it wanted to do was twist!
Hi Andrew, very interesting video as aways, I started drilling sugar beet on the 25th March, very challenging spring with the weather this year, with still a lot to do, yes you are very correct the yield will drop away significantly as we get towards the end of April. Love the mid week waffle as well👍👍
Thanks Jamie.
Evening Andy, all being well we should be planting Potatoes tomorrow, I’ll be operating the Moat former. Will be my first time, so concentration will be off the scale lol on the Fendt 939. Looking forward to it. 👍🇬🇧
Nice drilling rig
Hello Andrew. I am sure the weather will improve soon and you get the crops in the ground. You are easily the most organised farmer in the entire land and when the conditions get better you guys will fly through it. I wish you all the best!
Thanks Graham but I don’t know about that!!! We need god to be on our side for 10 days!
Thanks for the update. The beet drilling took me back. My late Father was very particular when drilling beet and used to say "i've got to lift it, so I want it put in properly". He used a 6 row Stanhay to start with, but to speed things up, he got another one, and welded them together so he could drill 12 rows a time. No GPS then, but his rows were straight as a die. He had 2 control boxes with 6 flashing lights on each to confirm the units were turning. He said it was like a disco when drilling in the dusk.
There’s still some of those Stanhays running.
I could always drive arrow straight when drilling with our MF 30 but the young ones today go home if the gps signal drops!! 🤣🤣
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Dad wouldn't recognize farming if he were still with us today.
Mine neither. He always said no one saw such change as his generation going from horses after the war to tractors. I’m not so sure. Robotics will be along soon I bet.
These videos are so interesting and informative 🚜🚜
As always interesting content, yes very wet with us ground saturated need a spell of settled weather, lovely drilling outfit, thankyou for the coverage of it. 👌👏
Hi you’ve mentioned sowing beans. What type of beans are they and what are they used for.
Again as mentioned previously I find your vlogs fascinating and educational especially to a proper townie as I .
Thanks for your feed back. The beans we grow are mainly for export for human consumption but can also be used here. Livestock feed is another use.
That beet drill is certainly an impressive bit of kit.
That drill is an impressive bit of kit!
Excellent Andrew 👌✅🇮🇪
Very interesting video Andrew as always best of luck for the week ahead to get some more seeds in the ground.🙏
We need most of the week without rain to get on I think.
Thank you Andrew, yet again an excellent window into your farm. In Norfolk we called those short runs "scoots" As you say it varies around the country. In my experience a rough seedbed and a dry time following planting was an invitation to mice to help themselves. We were amazed at how they could run along the row and smell where the next seed was and dig down for it.
I have heard that term before.
Fascinating video as always. Haven’t drilled anything here on the mans land in West Norfolk which should concern me a lot, but last year we drilled sugarbeet in March & it didn’t rain for weeks to the extent that we still couldn’t see it through the field by the end of May but by the time we harvested it in October it still gave a respectable yield.
Funny how crops can make up but it is getting late now.
Man’s land in Norfolk??!!!🤣
Very interesting as always. As a 12 year old on the farm just east of Newark I got paid 15 shillings for singling sugar beet in the "Goreings" of the field. I may be wrong, however I believe the term comes from the triangular edge of a square sail the "Gore"
Thank you for that, I didn’t know it’s origin.
Another great video, I not had a good week my mother passed away this week.
Oh nooo, so sorry to hear that John. Very sad. Mums are so special to us. Take care and surround yourself with friends and family you love.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard the sad thing about it is I was due to take my dad back to my sister who had done a brilliant job at looking after her.
But I did go up and see mum with my dad just the week before, thanks for the kind words Andrew and now time for me to get my farm moving again as this is what my mum would want.
Thanks again for your kind words!
At least you saw her only the week before and your Dad did too. Take care.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard yes I did, many thanks Andrew and lovely words
Just watching this video from sunny Spain hope you get all your spring crops in soon 😊
So do I, send some of that sun over!
Morning Andrew,very good drill the tempo,nice video look forwards to midweek updates👍
i have to say wardy, i have watched olli harrison since day one and i like him, but i have to say the content of your vlog is as good if not slightly better, keep it up mate.👌
Cheers Eric. 😊👍
Incredibly interesting as always!
It's a lot of years since I had anything to do with sowing sugar beet seed, quite surprised to see it tramlined...........While we are on about sugar beet, I was in my local Morrisons, good to see all their white sugar was Silver Spoon, even that artificial sugar is Silver Spoon, one all I would say against carrots!
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I saw that as well in my local store.
Looking like this coming week is favourable good luck with the bean's.
Needs a few days before we dare go on the land.
Another great update👍 Some money’s worth of kit in that field!
Definitely!
Thanks for the update Andrew. The sugar beet drill is a great piece of equipment should do a good job. Hopefully next week looks good weatherwise and you'll be able to get some Land work done. Thanks again.
Will need a few days drying first!
Cracking drill good job in a difficult season, we managed about 75 acres last sunday.
It’s going to take most of this week to dry out. 😖
Thank you for explaining your precision drilling operation, it is a very impressive drill the Vaderstad. I presume you can drop seeding units off and alter the sowing width by sliding them along the toolbar, for different crops eg Maize etc.
Some you can alter the width but not sure on this one.
Its a wet spring in Scotland as well. I have drilled spring barley in late April early May . it yields every bit as good and often better than early April drilled barley and not much latter to combine. Mostly will be wet areas or after turnips . Have to up the seed rate quite a bit though.
You usually don’t drill until April, we’re normally say with our feet up somewhere!
Useful to know, thanks.
Really enjoying the updates, maybe you need to do something about your microphone!.
I’ve given up looking for the one I lost, a new arrived after recording this update. 👍😊
Great update Andrew, impressive drill. Hopefully drier this week for you to get on, my broad beans at allotment are 3 to 4 weeks behind, your beans are hopefully going to be okay.
Very wet underneath still.
Did you ever get to the who wat were of the Amazon drill that landed in your yard the outher week. Keep up the good work on the videos
Yes, it was meant for a Glebe farm near Stamford!! 🤣🤦♂️😬
Rain had from last Saturday to Friday 20mm Friday tea over night 20mm near m18 / m180 junction. Drill unit far beats ones I was using in 60,s five rows at a time. Surprised your not having balcony galvanised save painting in years to come Sure they can then paint over galvo
I don’t think paint over galvanising is very successful.
Very interesting Andrew I've been on holiday since last week 1st watching
Not missed much!
great stuff
great channel,the dogs are good company 😃
They’re great!
Would it be worth leaving the sugar headlands til last Andrew so you can cutivate the turning compaction out before sowing?
We’ve tried that but because the soil has high clay and silt content, we can’t cultivate the wheeling’s out and germination suffers.
Mándanos un poco de agua para España, que tenemos un campo malísimo😢.
Saludos.
I wish I could send some, we have far too much at the moment but overall, the reservoirs are still low ftom 3 dry years.
How is Sugar beet seed formed please? Just thought it would be an interesting video that’s all. I pulled plenty of seed beet out yrs ago in the school holidays I recall. 👍😂😨🇬🇧
I’ll do that in another video.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard that’s very kind thanks, I think Carrots are similar? Got on my friends fields yesterday finally with the George Moate bed former, then the exhaust went on the Fendt 939, so it’s going to be a mid afternoon start today, typical. 🙄🇬🇧
The science, engineering and sheer capital cost of agriculture nowadays just blows the mind.
Too right, that drill is around £170k I think.
How much a ha to set beet?
Not sure until I get the bill!
would be a good video if it wasn't for the wind noise, with 10k subscribers now surely you can afford a new mic? ever thought of giving Narla her own channel like Olly has done with Chester. Narla is a lovely dog 😍
Apologies. I’ve given up looking for the one I lost, a new arrived after recording this update. 👍
Nala is a cracking dog, my last German shepherd had her own twitter account, @wheat_doggy but it took some managing so I’ll keep featuring Nala on here I think.
If the drill is putting 2 tramlines then why 1 unit is lifted and 1 down and they're not both up
Because it costs around £500 / row to have the technology to lift the seed unit. We’re on 32m tramlines, he only has 24, 30 and 36m tramlines capability for lifting the units up. It’ll stop seeding the correct rows for 32m but only lift the unit if it coincides with the unit which would lift up on 24, 30 or 36m.
Have you thought that ploughing sometimes could be very good solution in your operation?
We’ll never plough again, on the clay soils it took so much levelling and cost a fortune. The solo does a better job and crops yield better too. It works on the light land too.
just wounded if you are going to give the Amazone drill a go at beet drilling ?
It wasn’t meant for us, it should of gone to a Glebe farm near Stamford! I am going to try to get it back though.
Always good videos Andrew. Do you know how they are allowed to travel over 44ton?
I don’t I’m afraid.
The weighbridge test unit has a special dispensation to allow to it travel on the roads, this being only covered up to 48 tonne.
Good to see Ed Plowright back drilling the beet. At only 10% in the ground compared to previous years it is probable that the overall UK crop output will be much lower. Though no doubt that should improve the price you will receive. Finally, please get a new muffler for your microphone, some of your comments are virtually inaudible. The sound quality of your videos peaked when you had a muffler but now have regressed.
The price is fixed at £40/ton so however short sugar is, we won’t get any more. New microphone arrived 3 days ago!
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard I forgot that when there is only a single purchaser the normal demand and supply rules do not apply. With the combination of high costs of production, poor weather and fixed price with delivery controls it is not surprising that many no longer grow sugar beet. At least you will now be able to clearly explain this with your new microphone
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Interesting stuff