2022 drought continues but is it now too dry to plant crops for 2023 harvest?
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- With harvest done, all attention on the farm is on what to plant for 2023 harvest. OSR should be in the ground already but it's been so dry recently, there's no point as it won't grow. Or will it...
Hi Harry we've been direct drill for 25 years on our farm here in Australia as with most of Australia. My farms soils range from brown loams to heavy cracking clays. I haven't removed crop residues for a long time and my observation is the less you work the soil the softer and more productive it gets with less requirements for nitrogen. However slugs are a major issue and baiting is becoming the norm.
I'm surprised how interesting I find the Farm videos, Harry. I've always know farming is a risky business but I never realized how complex it is, how many decisions have to be made (often without much hard information), and how interdependent all the factor and variables are. I feel like we're just starting a new season of a dramatic mini-series. Will the oil seed rape come up? Will Harry successfully battle the slugs? How will the new wheat variety do? And, always lurking in the background, what surprises will DEFRA spring on the farmers? Stay tuned!
I feel this should have been a series on Amazon... ;-)
@@johnsim3722 they might dramatize the heck out of it and lose all the education 😁
They have deep roots that tap into the deeper moisture.
The simple truth is , without food you would be dead, seems sensible to pay a bit of attention
@@jukeseyable The theme throughout many of Harry's videos has been how the government are increasingly trying to put land out of crop production. That even in this time of high food prices caused by feared of losses in Ukraine and Russia, this government still isn't reacting to the current situation. They'd rather grow weeds than food. So what is the answer when you have a government that is absolutely deaf to the needs of the country?
Who'd have thought farming is so interesting. Can't wait for this seasons Clarkson's farm (but Harry is the original and the best).
Harry never disappoints but there's an extra bounce in his step on this video - great enthusiasm.
Probably grain and RUclips money just landed!
Blackberries are unstoppable. After a nuclear apocalpse it would just be cockroaches and blackberries.
And crocodile’s
Harry it's great to see you tackling direct drilling (canola), we in Australia have done the same for over 20 years and I expect you'll experience the same germination/emergence as we do, the moisture retained by the stubble will kick the oilseed rape up quicker than bare soil under marginal moisture conditions. At the same time your soil structure is less disturbed giving better root penetration and moisture wicking. Try to leave the stubble on top as it will use up some of your soil N feeding the microbes to break it down, good luck! Loving your youtube channel from Down Under! Cheers, Wal.
I don't know what it is, but I find these videos almost like a therapy after an office day. Every detail, all the complexity (and weather lottery) is so interesting and calming to watch!
This guy is brilliant, Harry dug up a baby oilseed rape plant out of the ground, examined it with not a little satisfaction and replanted it as if on gardeners world, just brilliant!
Please more oilseed followup videos! we have just been drilling ours with a Carrier mounted with a biodrill from väderstad in verry simular konditions. Local: the south of Sweden. Also, thank you Harry for the inspiration and wisdom!
Mr. Metcalfe, please keep doing the drone shots when you're using your machinery, you can really get a sense of scale and precision. It's one thing to see you talk about the accuracy of it all while you're in the cab of your tractor, but these drone shots really do it justice. Please keep up the great work. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, your enthusiasm, your farm, and a special thanks as always to Mrs. M for the exemplary camera work. 👍
Amazing how little people know about where their food comes from.
My girlfriend was popping down the shop and asked me did I want anything
I said get me some Chicken milk please
She said Chickens don’t make milk 🤔
Of course they do you fool how do you think they feed their baby’s.
You know 🤔I never new Chickens made milk she said.
Well how do you think they make Cream of Chicken soup
They use the top off the Chicken milk 😀
She came back from the shop and said couldn’t see the Chicken milk anywhere 🤣🤣
I always find it perplexing how things like blackberries and grapes do better in dry conditions when they're mostly water
I live in west Midlands suburbia and the blackberry bushes in our green areas are rampant this year, mad!
so does maize , catches the dew i think and just grows taller no matter what .
Blackberries were on cocaine this year
Our local vineyard say that 2022 is going to be an absolute classic, with a high yield of smallish but very intense grapes.
Blackberries got a lot of burn here (inland southern NL) on the 40degrees days. I grow some classic american thornless varieties for jam in my yard. Still an average year though. 2020 and 2018 were the good years. 2021 bad, fungus got them all, and the sprouts were less vigorous which together with the burn.makes this year an average one.
There’s a farmer where I live and he’s got his field preparation sorted. Every year he hosts a ploughing match. A lot of very serious people with vintage tractors and agricultural machinery turn up, pay to enter the competition and plough his fields for him. Easy work for the farmer.
I’m gonna go “no till”. - also I don’t have a tractor so. I don’t really have a choice ha ha
No, and I’ll freely admit it. I live in rural part of Kent and watch these videos to provide me with knowledge about the arable land around me. It seems a good idea to me but feel free to help my education. Perhaps in a less smug manner.
I spoke to a ploughing match organiser near here who said that after all the vintage tractors have scratched the surface they plough the who thing again with modern machinery as it ploughs much deeper than the vintage stuff...
Informative, interesting and entertaining. Great video as always.
I knew nothing about farming but I find these videos very interesting. I am traveling through France atm and I look at very dry corn fields wondering why they haven't been harvested, maybe moisture content? I'm learning :)
Great to see more and more farmers using the minimal till method. Soil is life
Unless you have a few hundred tons of dung to get rid of. Then , you really do have to plough it in.
I find this very interesting. I don't know much about farming but live in a farming area. I didn't know ploughing was actually detrimental. here they add sand and certainly pig fertiliser to the soil.
@@geoffwoodgate7450 it’s not always bad - there are some soils that need to be turned over to grow anything edible. Now there are some that would say those soils should go back to the wild grasslands etc that they were before humans cultivated them, but nonetheless for now they need to be turned. For example the soils in the northern Midwest of the US.
@@ep1981 every time you crop, your taking away nutrients from the soil. And you can only turn soul so many times before you need to go deeper to bring up nutrients. Turning soul is always damaging even if you fertilise.
@@riamriam6758 Agreed, but that doesn't change the fact that some very productive farming areas in the world can only be productively farmed if the soil is turned and fertilised. I'm a huge advocate of no-till where it's possible, but there are lots of places where it's not.
Have you just assumed the gender of that Oil Seed plant LOL? Thanks for all your videos. Subscriber - thank you for all your information about the farm. Hope it goes well for this coming year. The future is Blackberries...
It's a gender neutral seed
Congrats on 100k! I remember when farmers burned off their wheat stubble, not allowed anymore thankfully.
This is so informative,especially if you live in a rural area. Living next to a farm you see the machines setting off and returning but have no idea what they are doing.It's like living next to a pottery but never seeing how they make a cup. Thankyou.
Glenda, you have said exactly what I was thinking. And Harry got it all across in a way that was clear and instantly understandable. Andrew.
It just dropped about 30 mm around Le Mans in 1 day…. Everything was almost toasted let’s hope for more rainy days and not just showers. Apparently the sweetcorn crops are not so well this year.
Here in France they are sometimes still ploughing fields but I see it less and less.
God bless the farming community for the hardwork they are doing
Is the government still encouraging taking farm land out of production? Is it the goal to abet global starvation and ultimately decrease world population? You know for Mother Gaia?
Solar will be interesting,as Harry mentioned few odd things happening?
Inform episode
We’ve noticed the crazy blackberry harvest. And had exactly the same question: why are the birds not taking them? We get lots of smaller garden birds here, but BlackBerrys look untouched.
Birds don't like getting pricked any more than humans do.
Still plenty of food for birds yet due to good growing season of insects ect fruits are the autumn early winter food
Congrats on the nearly 110K subs. Said it once twice three times a lady. Harry is the dog's nuts. Needs to be PM right now with Clarkson as his ambassador 😂😂😂😂
A lack of rain during the summer? who would have thought it? We had a week or two of heavy rain after the heatwave though didn't we?
Love the min-till/direct drill ethos. Turning soil isn't just bad for the worms but it puts all the CO2 back in the atmosphere.
Cutting the straw will surely benefit the next crop and discourage pests. Sight nitrogen input too?
I can only wish you the the very best of luck for2023!
This is the serious version of Clarksons Farm, and I love it ... thanks Harry !
Fascinating as always Harry….I fear that I might be more interested in your work that a Road Test of SHMEE’s Zenvo….we are becoming armchair farmers!!!😎😎😎😎😀😀😀😀
Not that it matters on a huge farm, but my dad always told me that a young seed should only ever be handled by a leaf, never by the stem. A crushed leaf soon recovers, but a squashed stem is often fatal.
He likened it to the difference between picking up a toddler gently by the arms, and hoicking her off the ground one-handed by the neck. 🤭
We have all been saying the same in highland Scotland, never seen so many Brambles and very large juicy brambles, all our thickets are "glowing " black with the volume of berries, same with rowan, hope not like the old wives tales, that such heavy berry cropping bodes for a vey harsh winter, nature preparing the animals for a hard time.
Weird effect to having subscribed to Harry's Garage but now patiently waiting for a new Harry's Farm instead.
Harry, fascinating stuff from a very dry Cotswolds. Direct drilling into stubble has been with us Downunder for a long time now, maybe because our crops more sparse, but it works and retains moisture, less weeds and better soil health too. Many benefits. I’ve been meaning to ask about why you don’t use silos at all for grain storage and bulk handling. Maybe it’s for aesthetic reasons and heritage rules? But it seems the way in the old world to store grain in sheds still.
Maybe because Harry used the money the bank loaned him for a silo to start his EVO magazine, many a year ago now. What a legend. :)
I'm not a farmer but my guess about grain sheds v silos would be lack of space and the fact that you already have an old building in the farmyard so why not bung the grain in there? After the grain has been sold you have machinery storage for the winter.
Also it's nearly impossible to build anything in this country without a million planning complaints from worthy historians, council jobsworths and NIMBYs (not in my back yard)!
marvellous, the enthusiasm for a single germinated OSR seed, giving such an optimistic outlook for whole crop.
'crops fail, animals ail', farmer's mantra.
How do you stop rodents getting into your grain storage sheds?
As a life long country lad, interesting video Harry, I haven't seen anyone properly plough for years. Blackberries as you say everywhere and yet we are the only family that I know who picks them. Especially on a wholesale scale! Delicious, basically organic, free-range and FREE !☺👍
The biggest problem will be when the frosts come. The explosion of pigeon number due to several broods and the cutback due to subsidies allowing nature to reclaim many arable fields those hungry pigeons wil be devastating rape seedlings. I used to shoot over arable farms way back and can remember carpets of grey lifting a few feet off the ground from the gas guns yet fire a few 12g off they would disappear to another farm.
Can I ask,is it scaremongering,on some news sites that European farmers are being stopped from farming there land by the gov,are we heading for mass starvation?
I'm surprised at the amount of rock in the field.
Just discovered the channel. One film and I'm hooked. Really informative and accessible to all. Thanks for the effort. Good Luck
Sounds like your autumn is a month late, just like our spring is a month late here in South Africa.
The deserts daisy's that flower during August on the west coast are only doing it now.
Also we had snow during August which is usually seen during July.
A late season and drought has been a disruption in the UK.
Enjoyed this video.
Thanks for another informative video Harry. Looking forward to your next in-depth video on solar panels .
Great job 👌
Absolutely loved this episode, as a gardener! We lost an entire courtyard of pots taling a holiday over the same fortnight, so we feel for you...
Mrs M rolling pastry for a lovely BlackBerry pie ? Custard or cream?
Countryfile - this is how your program should be FYI
This channel should be on prime time TV👍
Just been out today and picked a load of blackberries, really flavourful this year - but my local farmer is trimming the hedges and destroying the crop again - why do this so early?
Because the next crop needs to be sown, when it wet you can't cut hedges and when you have lots to cut you have to get on because the season ends in February
Farmers: Complain complain complain.. yet I've never wanted to leave my cubicle life for the farming/Ag world more than after watching Harry's trials & tribulations. Cheers!
When the birds don't eat the blackberries, the cherries, whatever growing that they would normally go after,....that's generally a bad sign. They seem to have a sense of things to come.
Surely applying slug pellets before you’ve seen slugs is appalling practice? Also criticising ploughing…remember your wheat in barley last harvest……just saying
Will this scheme to re wild our countryside, plague crops with pests. Requiring extensive use of pesticides again?
Re blackberries and birds, I think the birds have taken a beating from avian flu
Thanks Harry for a really interesting video about modern farming by not ploughing
Fascinating stuff as always, particularly regards the reasons behind not deep ploughing any more. Blackberries have gone mental locally too.
Love this channel. Just starting a farm with no previous farming experience so I love learning from Harry Thanks for sharing
IT will rain before October keep a brave heart remember the old adage two thing you rarely see are dead donkeys and poor farmers best of luck
Why is it ALWAYS too something for farmers ? Never ok or alright.
All by design
Of course the first part of any rain will more or less immediately evaporate so you need more than the odd 1mm here or there to have a beneficial effect.
My usual 40 minute evening walk has been taking over an hour due to Blackberry sampling.
A battle with slugs is a battle you can never win .
Thanks for another enjoyable video Harry. As others have mentioned,it's so good to come home after another (s$it) day at work and find your videos so relaxing (albeit, the lack of rain may not be so relaxing for you!). Many congrats on the 100K subscribers. Deserved!
Amazing how much farming moves on 🤔 I remember when fields were ploughed . The local wheat fields were cut and bailed and the stubble seemed to sit there for ages .When usually the farmer has the ground worked over and re seeded 🤔thought he’s leaving it late this year only to see this week little green shoots appearing in lines this week,turns out it’s been direct drilled. Next to no ground disturbance 👍and still the remains of the wheat harvest for the wild birds. 👍Brilliant 👍 as Paul Whitehouse would say 😀
I don’t know why this ended up in my feed, other than the smothering and deadly religion of “plant-based” desperately infiltrating daily life, but it makes me want to find a regenerative agriculture video to watch so I don’t see so much lightly colored, nutrient-deficient topsoil blowing in the wind and hear about poisons to kill life in the soil, and about glyphosates that kill our gut biomes. I understand there’s money in certain commodities, and the economics need to work to stay in possession of the land, and that proper human food is mistakenly and deliberately becoming less politically and ideologically correct; but I’d still rather see cattle than “corn” in a field and on my plate any day. At least I didn’t have to see paid hunters shooting birds, or groundwater being used for open ditch irrigation just to grow monocrop plants, the most vulnerable thing possible to grow, instead of natural grasses. How is this sustainable? (I have farmers in my family; I know how, I get it.) I’m *sure* there are many reasons for no cattle here. I’ll find another video. Nonetheless, I find it depressing watching depleted earth getting flattened, scraped, drilled and blown away to produce, among other things, highly inflammatory, chemically-refined and -processed industrial seed oils not fit for human consumption. Supply and demand and money, not ecological or human health. Fortunately, there is a growing market for regeneratively-raised animal food products. So, now I’ll take the opportunity to use the algorithm to direct you to a video by Dr. Chris Knobbe - Diseases of civilization: are seed oil excesses the unifying mechanism? Happy watching.
Great video especially the game of spot the OSR plant.
I’ve been in east Suffolk right on the coast for the last two months and there has been no rain for about three months at least. I dread to think what arable farmers without irrigation are doing. There’s been several fires in fields as well as on the heathland. Everywhere is brown. I watched a video of I Farm we Farm today and it gave me quite a shock to see all that green grass
I love this channel! Thank you Harry.
Will be interesting to see if the hot summer is followed by a warm or cold winter…
I guess a grain shed upgrade would be nice to remove all those supporting columns…
One thing that hasn’t been acknowledged, is that cattle stocking rates will reduce naturally as lower stocking levels will be required if ‘global warming’ (I call it over population) continues as less grass will grow, as evident this summer. I have noticed in France that cattle stocking rates on pasture are much lower than the UK which usually has wetter summers and better grass growth.
Thank God you're looking out for your carbon footprint ,😉
Hi Harry, Writing from Australia, if that was our canola crop, we would have put a bare earth insecticide over that crop by now, are you allowed to do that over there ?
Thanks for sharing this beautiful VLOG 😍♥️🔥🌹
Somehow this most compelling, informative enjoyable... Came for the cars and stayed for the farming. :D
You could harvest field stones from the paddock, don't laugh my dads friends father sold all his field stones and made good money . It must be hard on machinery
More importantly, where is Stanley?
I hope we get a costs, and profits vid this year too, keep up the good work
Anyone else wants Harry to apply that analytical mind of his to running the country? Let's have some decency, concern, and intelligence for a change.
I’m looking forward to seeing how your solar install goes, I so very much wanna go independent from utility companies, self reliant on providing my own electricity I’m interested not using any of the grid for both charging and daily normal use, I hate the way the government has allowed these oil & gas & utility companies to run away with massive profits, I was always interested from a good karma standpoint to become more green, but now I want to do it because of these companies being so greedy, it now feels like a couple fingers up to this shitty government. I hope and wish you well Harry as always.
Have you ever thought about hiring an airplane so that you can undertake cloud seeding to ensure that you can plant your crops this season?
Harry's farm, Harr's Garage & now Harry's Airfield - I'm up for that!
@@colinritchie1757 Yeah!
All cloud seeding does is steal water from people down wind.
If he forced it to rain on his farm other farmers will suffer.
@@Mireaze It's not "stealing water" if nobody owned it in the first place. There is also the fact that Cloud Seeding takes place over a wide area so the land where cloud seeding would take place would not only positively effect Harry's Farm but also many other farms in the areas sprayed.
I'm surprised that you more worried about other farmers being effected negatively and not the possibility of cloud seeding creating massive floods that would likely create more damage and lots more problems down the road...
slightly better here in cornwall , but the field next to me has only had one silage cut in the spring and thats it ;;;; only slight greening up with very little growth .
Thankfully the forecast is for unsettled weather even in south east UK. I'm in western Ireland and the rain has started very slowly here this evening. GO plant!!!! Dunno about the oilseed rape as you have the beetle problem this time of year.
We were direct drilling 40years ago down the road from you Harry 👨🦳
In Australia if it doesn’t rain after a few weeks , they go in dry , bit hard on the bar and gear , but it goes in
Disappointed that the U.K. government (having left the EU), have allowed the use of neonicotinoids pesticides (known to kill bees).
Farming is like gambling, exciting stuff. Thank you for sharing.
I’m not an expert in agricultural matters, but I do know that the UK imports more than half of its nutrition, which is a very worrying position to be in at the moment. Rape is a crop that came into prominence as a result of EU agricultural policies. It’s origin was as a component of animal fodder, but it’s been promoted to be used in human food manufacture. But it doesn’t provide value for acreage in terms of human consumption. We still have a huge deficit in terms of our food needs. Livestock husbandry is equally expensive in terms of acreage production.
So the urgent need is for the production of food crops - grain and vegetables - as we can’t continue to be reliant on imported food.
But do we have the quality of soil needed to grow grain? Do we have the expertise and equipment to produce vegetables ?
And worst of all, the capitalist agricultural economy is so inflexible that it’s next to impossible for farmers to switch from what are essentially cash crops into domestic food production.
But this is one of the purposes of Brexit : to liberate the UK from the CAP. Small farmers are going to have the opportunity to achieve this. But will the large industrial corporations that comprise the majority of our land use make any attempt to do so?
Someone told me once that if you see a load of blackberries growing then a hard winter is coming. We will see this year!
Congrats on the 100k subscribers ! It's very interesting for us city dwellers
Can we please have a walkaround, review & a bit of history about your Renault tractor before you sell it please Harry...??? They were great tractors, highly underrated by many...
Lancia Zagato restoration or grain yields the passion is the same.
Glad to see you’ve got a good tilth , I was direct drilling after the 76 drought, when it rained and rained , farmers couldn’t plough so they had us in withBettison 3D drills , but we couldn’t create a tilth, and the seed rotted in the slits, it put direct drilling back quite a few years !
Always a battle with the weather for farmers. Your soil looks like it is on limestone can you grow grapes?
Super video, very clever in all that you do, thanks.
Blackberry's were early this year....I have just made an Apple and Blackberry pie 🥧
Somehow I like your farm channel better than your car channel. I'm always interested to learn more about the technical realities of agriculture but it's not often presented in a manner digestible to me. Thanks for creating this channel and explaining things so well. And you weren't lying, you really are a farmer now. Respect.
If only you had more strings to your bow Harry 🤣
Drought discontinued due to lack of interest. KLM, EMIRATES
Harry, blackberry is a noxious weed here in Western Oregon. It grows like the clappers. Our typical summer is very like what you've had in England this year, warm to hot, sunny, and very dry. We can't control it.
Yeah, thanks to the Old Country twats that planted blackberry in New Zealand in the 1850's so they could "feel at home"
It is now a serious pest plant....along with gorse and broom...ditto reasons.
Not to mention rabbits, hares, stoats, weasels and hedgehogs....
It has struck me during this drought that the last plants to be affected are weeds.Obviously there is something at a DNA level that allows them to survive,which then begs the question:-why aren't we genetically engineering our crops to take advantage of the wonderful resistance built into our weeds?..................................................
It’s not that easy to engineer a crop, it takes massive amounts of research, funding, time and testing. Somewhere in the future this will be possible, but we have to be patient.
We did and that's where modern food crops came from.
Don't worry Harry , the drought will come to an end just as it did in Australia in 2020.
2019 was very dry , bush fires everywhere in summer 19/20...then the rains started , and now we have had 2 years of floods in some areas.
Australian agricultural production is now at record highs.
Great video, congratulations on reaching the 100000 subscribers, you really deserve that milestone and your view number’s look great too.