April has brought a welcome spell of settled, sunny weather to Harry's Farm and the crops have responded well. Here's an update on what's going on in the farming world.
I'm not a farmer by any stretch of the imagination BUT I love these vids. Harry - you bring the same style of delivery to these as the Garage videos and both keep me amused and occupied here in Qatar at all times, lockdown or not.
Douglas Green which bit of “CO2 being over 400ppm for the first time in millions of years” do you find difficult to understand? Or is it the bit about massive climate changes happening every time CO2 rose over 325ppm between ice ages (ice ages of course happened every time CO2 fell much lower than 275ppm)? Too complicated for you?
@@tomburton8239 Are you a climate scientist? I thought not...Why don't you give me your opinion on brain surgery or Rocket Science..It would be just as laughable....You are nothing more than a virtue signalling leftie globalist collectivist...
Douglas Green This is not about opinions. This is about facts. Like the earth having an atmosphere just 10 miles thick (except for a few sparse molecules). Engage brain. BTW I have a physics degree from a top-5 university.
My first look at this channel after following the car antics. Fantastic. Perfect narration and entertainingly informative. We live in the middle of two farms and it's all contractors nowadays. Nice to see you driving that tractor Harry, as well as the Countach! Great entertainment.
Thanks Harry. Love the fact that you share the wider farming news that us townies aren't really aware of and mainstream media don't cover. Top quality vid once again !!
Gareth Clayton Buy a scarifyer and attach it to your lawnmower and put some ear defenders on (Also known as wireless headphones delivering off Alexa!) and away you go. Seriously I do do this every end of September and again early March and then seed and feed my lawn and it’s brilliant, can’t tell any discolouration from the dogs at all!!
We all clapped tonight for our NHS workers and rightfully so but let's not forget our farmers and all they go through to put food on our plate. They are hard hit at the moment. Please support your local farm shops and suppliers. Especially the dairies. Our local dairy has a milk drive through. Before last week they were tipping their milk down the drain until a FB plea. Now they are running out as people are queuing for their drive through milk!! Awesome just awesome. Way to go Britain!
Can't believe how quiet that tractor cab is Harry. My memories of dragging cambridge rollers around as a kid was that it was deafening! I've still got an old Ford 4000 - and get the mickey taken by all the 'proper' farmers for wearing ear defenders. But then they've all got hearing aids having spent a lifetime's work without PPE.
Sincere thanks for dragging me down the rabbit hole of tractor lineage and history. As a lifelong car nut from an area with many farms I'm now a bit ashamed to confess I always just mindlessly accepted them. Reminds me of how non car people look at a car :p Life lessons out here.
I used to have an old Zetor and the exhaust had snapped off so I used the exhaust silencer off my Honda CBR 600 which I had knocking around after I had fitted an aftermarket exhaust to it, made an interesting sound but I did use ear protection as I did when on the tractor mower because after six or seven hours you could really notice the effect on your hearing.
I call my exhaust a streamlined racing mod, as it lies back at about 45°. (Truth is, I had an argument with a low branch whilst too busy looking out the back!) There are lots of old tractors still chugging around the lanes here in Normandy. I'm quite popular with French friends for sourcing parts in the UK - always, always significantly cheaper than the same bits here. But the wine, cider and calvados - now that's where the local market scores!
great channel Harry Ilove the garageBUT IM LOVING THE FARM WITH ALL THE GADGETS and the expert commentry There are many things about afarm i just didnt know until now THIS IS A REAL WINNER THANKS --GREG AUSTRALIA
I knew this would be interesting :) I have just subscribed as you mentioned this channel on one of your Harrys Garage videos. I am not a farmer but am interested in farming so I thought I could learn something and so it has proved. Looking forward to the next one.
Fascinating. I grew up (and am still working) in the flowerbulb business, which is a bit different. So it's great to have an insight into another side of agriculture.
Really enjoy your videos Harry and great to see you back 👍 get your drill man to get a weaving gd drill had one on demo yesterday they are amazing in my mind, and I think we are getting one 😍😊
SUGGESTION : Can you please explain the difference between herbicide and fungicide; how a herbicide knows to only kill weeds (and not the crop); the types of herbicides used; and what the impact of herbicides/ fungicides is on mammals, bees & other insects, and ground water. Thank you. Great video and great to see the fields finally dry !
Fantastic Harry, just love your updates, can’t understand why people give a thumbs down. Our local farm has a cafe restaurant called the Milk Barn, my heart goes out to them as it was such a busy place 7 days a week, now it’s closed due to this horrendous outbreak. All the best to you Harry. Kind regards Johnny
Very informative again. Nice to see the basics of the tractor and why you roll the ground. Sad to see dairy farms struggling again. Good health to you and your family.
Great vids. Reminds me of being a young lad being brought up in a farming community. Planting strawberries, later picking them along with rhubarb, rasps and tatties in the local tattie holidays. With regard to the rabbits decimating the crop. Would be well worth your while getting to know some local air rifle enthusiasts to keep the bunny numbers down. Also provides a free meal if done correctly.
Powder the milk for later it keeps for donkeys in proper storage, wonderful to see you restoring parts of the farm, glad to see the late wheat springing up.
Thanks Gordon XYZ, I also wondered what a Panerai was. I certainly don’t consider myself a ‘incomp’ thank you pete smyth. We can’t all profess to know it all. Thanks a lot Harry, new subscriber and loving your style and content.
Hi Harry, really interesting video. As a Catering butcher based in the Thames Valley our business has been affected hugely by the closure of Restaurants, Golf Clubs , Hospitality & Pubs etc. We have diversified into home delivery to try retain some business. Really interesting about the milk supply chain. Keep well & stay safe. P.s.just heard the pod cast with Chris Harris , made me laugh👍
Harry I've worked on fairly large scale grain farms in Western Canada and I'll be doing the same this growing season do to losing my job in oil/gas (cover 19 price collapse). GPS navigation/plotting and auto-steer is used extensively over here to prevent overlap/waste and reduce operator fatigue. I think using gps could be very advantageous for your tamping, not to mention herbicide application.
Great video Harry , your winter wheat is looking well lucky you 👍 I just finished yesterday planting our farm been drilling for 3 weeks now , had nothing in the ground at all up until now .
Yikes, where about are you farming? 2020 harvest can't come soon enough as far as I'm concerned, then we can all reset and hope for a normal growing season again, if such a thing still exists.. .
@Harry, no matter how hard you try.. nature will determine our future but, rolling stones will never die!!! Plesse keep farming and sending new stuff..😁
Good to see that the farm is doing good again. Seem'd bleak during the winter there, still is I guess for many plant farmers, and now corona is disrupting many livestock farmers as well, rough times.
Do you know Harry,a gorgeous day like today,but in lockdown,we can put the kettle on for a brew,pick up the iPad,then glance to you tube and youve put a new vid on,(wether garage or farm,) what a great excuse for a brew and a break.thanks again for your informative videos.
Andrew Coates your iPad wont work in the sunshine though, ah pity, next time try a Microsoft Surface Pro or a Huawei, both great in the Sunshine!! 😁😁😁😁
Farming looks like a giant game of poker. One year you win big but you only need some bad luck and you're right up against it. With everything on the line, stressful.
You've summed up farming in the UK perfectly! Hence why you always need another string to your bow, to cover yourself for when you bet on red and it turns out you should have bet on black..
That is why American farmers still think and hopeTrump is for them. They are hurting from the tariffs, but most of them can take a bad year or two if their markets got better in the long run. Some can't of course and some will go bankrupt, but farmers are used to good and bad years and they can take it. It seems to be a business with a 5-7 year long horizon. Problem will probably be if the next few years keep being lean years, but by then, if the farmers go belly up, it does not matter if it was Trump or Brexit or the demand during corona crashing. They have a long view and if they are gone, they are gone. That is my limited view and understanding of the farming business, but basically they have had bad years before and budget and plan accordingly.
@@harrysfarmvids I bet farming is like that in most of Western Europe. But it would be very interesting if you talked about the long term economics of farming. Tell us how farmers deal with a bad year and how long a horizon is for a farm economically. Because in most businesses, huge investments in hardware and bad years equals bankrupcy. But farmers seem to have planned for that more than most other businesses. When does it economically seriously hurt a farmer and what constitutes "good years".
The Oct' wheat looks well Harry,even the december stuff has good chance , a bit different to when we had to get Hyde in by the 15 Oct!!! If you have any stumps that need grinding on that cleared ground, i maybe able to help you.
If anything has taught us to increase uk production and less imports then our present chrisis should be a salutary lesson ,thank you uk farmers ,workers ,packers and anyone involved in uk food production:
Great video. Harry can make just about anything interesting. So I've had some bother these weeks trying to find milk and it's being dumped! Horahh for just-in-time supply chains, such systems cannot cope with demand spikes.
Nice spread of topics covered. Good information. Let’s hope many people can isolate around the “homestead” BBQ with some British lamb and beef very soon.
Thanks. I hesitated about adding the clip on what's happening in the wider Ag world but thought it was worth doing as much of today's general media often get it so wrong. It's either too fluffy, or it's 'go vegan' with nothing in between..
Another fantastic and juicy video - entertaining and educational in equal measures, thank you so much. Dairy industry: I have always thought that excess milk (regardless of the reason) would be converted into dry powder matter which has got several uses by different industries and can be stored for longer. So the question: why is it being wasted rather than processed?
Harry, another great video. Would like to support dairy farmers by paying more for milk. Wished supermarkets would display 2 prices! And give consumers the choice. I would always pay the higher price. (Within reason ☺)
A fantastic escape from the current worries of the world. Thank you. Will you do a video on the history of the walls on the farm sometime? I believe you mentioned that at some point.
Great video Harry, real shame for the dairy boys and girls hope they can get it sorted, have you thought of running a metal detector over the area by the old wall?
I'm not a farmer by any stretch of the imagination BUT I love these vids. Harry - you bring the same style of delivery to these as the Garage videos and both keep me amused and occupied here in Qatar at all times, lockdown or not.
Great video Harry,
I farm next door and always nice to see what your neighbours are up to and how their crops are doing!
Keep up the good work 👍
Thank god we have got Harry talking so much sense, much better than twee townie country file.
Here, here...All that vertue signaling by them going on about climate change rubbish every 5 minutes..
Douglas Green which bit of “CO2 being over 400ppm for the first time in millions of years” do you find difficult to understand? Or is it the bit about massive climate changes happening every time CO2 rose over 325ppm between ice ages (ice ages of course happened every time CO2 fell much lower than 275ppm)? Too complicated for you?
@@tomburton8239 Are you a climate scientist? I thought not...Why don't you give me your opinion on brain surgery or Rocket Science..It would be just as laughable....You are nothing more than a virtue signalling leftie globalist collectivist...
Douglas Green This is not about opinions. This is about facts. Like the earth having an atmosphere just 10 miles thick (except for a few sparse molecules). Engage brain. BTW I have a physics degree from a top-5 university.
@@tomburton8239 You have answered your own question. You have an opinion...Opinions are like assholes...everyone has one...
My first look at this channel after following the car antics. Fantastic. Perfect narration and entertainingly informative. We live in the middle of two farms and it's all contractors nowadays. Nice to see you driving that tractor Harry, as well as the Countach! Great entertainment.
Thanks Harry. Love the fact that you share the wider farming news that us townies aren't really aware of and mainstream media don't cover. Top quality vid once again !!
Thank god the farmers haven't been furloughed....keep up the good work Harry..your country needs you.
Best videos on RUclips. Love Harry’s farm, so informative and delivered in a great style.
Love the video Harry. I’ve only got a small city garden but I need a tractor in my life.
Gareth Clayton Buy a scarifyer and attach it to your lawnmower and put some ear defenders on (Also known as wireless headphones delivering off Alexa!) and away you go. Seriously I do do this every end of September and again early March and then seed and feed my lawn and it’s brilliant, can’t tell any discolouration from the dogs at all!!
Thank Harry you are the best on cars and on farms
Nice to see the sun and you back out in the fields
I've recently become an addict of Harry's Garage and have just enjoyed my first video on Harry's Farm and I love it!
Love the infomation you give, top work!
That´s a nice touch to restore the stone wall as it was in the past. It is a pleasure to see when spring is coming up in the fields.
We all clapped tonight for our NHS workers and rightfully so but let's not forget our farmers and all they go through to put food on our plate. They are hard hit at the moment. Please support your local farm shops and suppliers. Especially the dairies. Our local dairy has a milk drive through. Before last week they were tipping their milk down the drain until a FB plea. Now they are running out as people are queuing for their drive through milk!! Awesome just awesome. Way to go Britain!
Great video Harry just love your farm and garage 👍
Can't believe how quiet that tractor cab is Harry. My memories of dragging cambridge rollers around as a kid was that it was deafening! I've still got an old Ford 4000 - and get the mickey taken by all the 'proper' farmers for wearing ear defenders. But then they've all got hearing aids having spent a lifetime's work without PPE.
Ian Hayward Modern tractors on light duties are quieter than car at 70mph now.
Sincere thanks for dragging me down the rabbit hole of tractor lineage and history. As a lifelong car nut from an area with many farms I'm now a bit ashamed to confess I always just mindlessly accepted them. Reminds me of how non car people look at a car :p Life lessons out here.
I used to have an old Zetor and the exhaust had snapped off so I used the exhaust silencer off my Honda CBR 600 which I had knocking around after I had fitted an aftermarket exhaust to it, made an interesting sound but I did use ear protection as I did when on the tractor mower because after six or seven hours you could really notice the effect on your hearing.
I call my exhaust a streamlined racing mod, as it lies back at about 45°. (Truth is, I had an argument with a low branch whilst too busy looking out the back!) There are lots of old tractors still chugging around the lanes here in Normandy. I'm quite popular with French friends for sourcing parts in the UK - always, always significantly cheaper than the same bits here. But the wine, cider and calvados - now that's where the local market scores!
haha i've done literally hundreds of hours on a Ford 4000..bloody good tractor
Great video as always . i hope the public will at this time appreciate just how much we need our farmers
Good man Harry, thanks for the update👍
Another great video Harry and thank you for the update.
Thank you Harry! Keep well and keep farming.
Nice video Hary - glad that the weather is treating your soil and crops well, now. Good Luck!
great channel Harry Ilove the garageBUT IM LOVING THE FARM WITH ALL THE GADGETS and the expert commentry There are many things about afarm i just didnt know until now THIS IS A REAL WINNER THANKS --GREG AUSTRALIA
Fascinating as always,I always learn something from your videos
As always so interesting Harry. look forward to these videos very much, thank you.
Please keep these coming Harry. Welcome respite in these times. Lovely Luminor Marina too.
It is fascinating learning about the world of farming from you. Your videos are much appreciated.
Thanks Harry.
Thanks for sharing Harry always very interesting
I knew this would be interesting :) I have just subscribed as you mentioned this channel on one of your Harrys Garage videos. I am not a farmer but am interested in farming so I thought I could learn something and so it has proved. Looking forward to the next one.
Fascinating. I grew up (and am still working) in the flowerbulb business, which is a bit different. So it's great to have an insight into another side of agriculture.
Thank you for sharing your farm with us. Farmers are so important and you all need support
Thanks Harry, really interesting and I learnt many things. Keep safe.
Well done Harry very informative and interesting, thank you.
You Sir are a credit to our country, doing a fantastic job to feed everyone. My respect for farmers has increased massively, keep up the good work 👍
Thanks very enjoyable and informative 🤗👍
Love your channel. Grew up on arable farm. Left 30 odd years ago. Countryside fix. Keep it going, very uplifting for those of us stuck in cities. 👍
Great video Harry. Hugely interesting. Issues for farmers are the same all across Europe and the world. Keep the videos coming.
Super update, thank you.
Thankyou Harry, very good points, I worry about my dairy farmer friends back in north Cornwall.
A nice big red Case also suits you Harry...! Love farming keep up the good work, we need it more then ever...
Very interesting Harry love the information in your videos
Thanks, Harry. Very interesting and informative, as ever. BTW, good luck with the drought.....
Really enjoy your videos Harry and great to see you back 👍 get your drill man to get a weaving gd drill had one on demo yesterday they are amazing in my mind, and I think we are getting one 😍😊
Hi Harry a bit of farming the land is a great way of relaxing taking your mind off the strains of life these days eh enjoy your vids thanks
Well done Harry great job Happy Easter mate from Australia .🍻
SUGGESTION : Can you please explain the difference between herbicide and fungicide; how a herbicide knows to only kill weeds (and not the crop); the types of herbicides used; and what the impact of herbicides/ fungicides is on mammals, bees & other insects, and ground water. Thank you. Great video and great to see the fields finally dry !
Thank you for this update Harry. Love seeing what you are doing there. Som small audio break ups on this video.
Fantastic Harry, just love your updates, can’t understand why people give a thumbs down. Our local farm has a cafe restaurant called the Milk Barn, my heart goes out to them as it was such a busy place 7 days a week, now it’s closed due to this horrendous outbreak.
All the best to you Harry.
Kind regards
Johnny
Very informative again. Nice to see the basics of the tractor and why you roll the ground. Sad to see dairy farms struggling again. Good health to you and your family.
Great vids. Reminds me of being a young lad being brought up in a farming community. Planting strawberries, later picking them along with rhubarb, rasps and tatties in the local tattie holidays. With regard to the rabbits decimating the crop. Would be well worth your while getting to know some local air rifle enthusiasts to keep the bunny numbers down. Also provides a free meal if done correctly.
Love the videos Harry!
Loved that Harry! Thanks!
Great video thanks Harry rolling wheat for the same reason as rolling a new lay of grass
Glad you mentioned dairy farmers .Thanks Harry.
Powder the milk for later it keeps for donkeys in proper storage, wonderful to see you restoring parts of the farm, glad to see the late wheat springing up.
Just what I needed to watch in my Malvern lockdown with a G&T!
WE always rold wheat and barly when it was up in spring never hurts it
Love your Vlogs!
glad to see the farm is coming along okay
Thanks Gordon XYZ, I also wondered what a Panerai was. I certainly don’t consider myself a ‘incomp’ thank you pete smyth. We can’t all profess to know it all. Thanks a lot Harry, new subscriber and loving your style and content.
I find this farm work facinating. Hope the crops come good for you Harry !
Me too! Having said that, I'm not expecting it to be a good harvest but we'll re-set this autumn and hope for better things next year.
@@harrysfarmvids Well I'll be following !
Hi Harry, really interesting video. As a Catering butcher based in the Thames Valley our business has been affected hugely by the closure of Restaurants, Golf Clubs , Hospitality & Pubs etc. We have diversified into home delivery to try retain some business. Really interesting about the milk supply chain. Keep well & stay safe. P.s.just heard the pod cast with Chris Harris , made me laugh👍
Very informative, thankyou👍
Harry another good video keep calm and carry on 🚜
Thanks Harry, I enjoyed that. 🙂
Thank you harry
Really enjoying the farm vlogs harry
Fascinating to hear about the layers of food production most people are unaware of.
Thank you harry I’m loving all this farming stuff me being a born and breed towny 😂😂😂❤️
Lots of farming . Vital time for supplies
Harry I've worked on fairly large scale grain farms in Western Canada and I'll be doing the same this growing season do to losing my job in oil/gas (cover 19 price collapse). GPS navigation/plotting and auto-steer is used extensively over here to prevent overlap/waste and reduce operator fatigue. I think using gps could be very advantageous for your tamping, not to mention herbicide application.
Love your vids, Harry! Keep 'er lit....
Good video Harry 👍
Love this channel
Great video Harry , your winter wheat is looking well lucky you 👍 I just finished yesterday planting our farm been drilling for 3 weeks now , had nothing in the ground at all up until now .
Yikes, where about are you farming? 2020 harvest can't come soon enough as far as I'm concerned, then we can all reset and hope for a normal growing season again, if such a thing still exists.. .
Harry's Farm not that far from you harry , I work at Weston on the green
Loving Harry’s Farm. 👍
Love Harry's farm vids
@Harry, no matter how hard you try.. nature will determine our future but, rolling stones will never die!!! Plesse keep farming and sending new stuff..😁
that is a nice looking wall.. lots of labor. In new england usa we cannot hurt them in any way. Historic.
Good to see that the farm is doing good again. Seem'd bleak during the winter there, still is I guess for many plant farmers, and now corona is disrupting many livestock farmers as well, rough times.
Brilliant Harry, as always.
Thanks Harry
Do you know Harry,a gorgeous day like today,but in lockdown,we can put the kettle on for a brew,pick up the iPad,then glance to you tube and youve put a new vid on,(wether garage or farm,) what a great excuse for a brew and a break.thanks again for your informative videos.
Andrew Coates your iPad wont work in the sunshine though, ah pity, next time try a Microsoft Surface Pro or a Huawei, both great in the Sunshine!! 😁😁😁😁
Farming looks like a giant game of poker. One year you win big but you only need some bad luck and you're right up against it. With everything on the line, stressful.
You've summed up farming in the UK perfectly! Hence why you always need another string to your bow, to cover yourself for when you bet on red and it turns out you should have bet on black..
If you haven't already done so, you should read 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' by Thomas Hardy.
That is why American farmers still think and hopeTrump is for them. They are hurting from the tariffs, but most of them can take a bad year or two if their markets got better in the long run. Some can't of course and some will go bankrupt, but farmers are used to good and bad years and they can take it. It seems to be a business with a 5-7 year long horizon. Problem will probably be if the next few years keep being lean years, but by then, if the farmers go belly up, it does not matter if it was Trump or Brexit or the demand during corona crashing. They have a long view and if they are gone, they are gone. That is my limited view and understanding of the farming business, but basically they have had bad years before and budget and plan accordingly.
@@EspenX It's pretty obvious who Trump is for... Trump.
@@harrysfarmvids I bet farming is like that in most of Western Europe. But it would be very interesting if you talked about the long term economics of farming. Tell us how farmers deal with a bad year and how long a horizon is for a farm economically. Because in most businesses, huge investments in hardware and bad years equals bankrupcy. But farmers seem to have planned for that more than most other businesses. When does it economically seriously hurt a farmer and what constitutes "good years".
The Oct' wheat looks well Harry,even the december stuff has good chance , a bit different to when we had to get Hyde in by the 15 Oct!!! If you have any stumps that need grinding on that cleared ground, i maybe able to help you.
Very interested to see progress on the wall.
Love the stone wall Harry
Great video ad always Harry, not a easy time to be a farmer or food processor at the moment.
If anything has taught us to increase uk production and less imports then our present chrisis should be a salutary lesson ,thank you uk farmers ,workers ,packers and anyone involved in uk food production:
Smashing update Harry. Considering e career change more and more now !
Great video
Great video. Harry can make just about anything interesting. So I've had some bother these weeks trying to find milk and it's being dumped! Horahh for just-in-time supply chains, such systems cannot cope with demand spikes.
Exactly
Nice spread of topics covered. Good information. Let’s hope many people can isolate around the “homestead” BBQ with some British lamb and beef very soon.
Thanks. I hesitated about adding the clip on what's happening in the wider Ag world but thought it was worth doing as much of today's general media often get it so wrong. It's either too fluffy, or it's 'go vegan' with nothing in between..
Great video Harry. I dont see anyone rolling winter crops anymore seems to be a thing of the past these days
Another fantastic and juicy video - entertaining and educational in equal measures, thank you so much. Dairy industry: I have always thought that excess milk (regardless of the reason) would be converted into dry powder matter which has got several uses by different industries and can be stored for longer. So the question: why is it being wasted rather than processed?
Harry, another great video. Would like to support dairy farmers by paying more for milk. Wished supermarkets would display 2 prices! And give consumers the choice. I would always pay the higher price. (Within reason ☺)
Nice watch young Harry!!!
A fantastic escape from the current worries of the world. Thank you. Will you do a video on the history of the walls on the farm sometime? I believe you mentioned that at some point.
I reckon UK farmers must have one of the most stressful jobs going. Placing bets against nature every season of the year!
Good luck with crops and Lambo, you and Mr Tyrrell are real gentlemen.
ben d Mr. Tyrell????
Great video Harry, real shame for the dairy boys and girls hope they can get it sorted, have you thought of running a metal detector over the area by the old wall?
missed a trick..."harry's sloe gin".