How did 2021 harvest compare to last year financially & why DEFRA plans for the future are wrong
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- How did harvest 2021 compare to 2020 financially and why I reckon the UK Government's Agricultural Department (DEFRA) has got its plans for the future of UK farming all wrong.
You raised a lot of interesting points in this video that the average person like myself wouldn’t be aware of if it wasn’t for your candid videos, so thank you Harry for making me think/look further into some of the points you raised… seems like the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing in the government regarding farming!!!
Governments don't know what they are doing in any department, but defra is worst .
It’s the buffoon civil servants that don’t care/know what they’re doing.
has the meeting taken place with your Minister for Agriculture ?
Harry, you and Clarkson are bringing farming to a new audience. You guys can make change simply by doing what your doing and getting the word out about farming, how hard it is, and the love for it that it takes to be successful at it. Keep it up. Please promote this channel more on your Harry's Garage channel. That's how I found you and have watched it for a good long time. You can reach a new audience from there that may not be looking for farming stuff. The algorithm brought me here, not your other channel if you get me.
Having watched this I'm dismayed at the policy changes you outline. We need to increase food production in our country not actively reduce it. Also I've been fully 'plant based' for 2.5 years for health reasons. In this time I've become increasingly concerned about environmental impacts I personally make & as a PB well aware the increasing vegan options are not good environmentally let alone health wise. One obvious food option example is avocado which I refuse to buy. I'm against USA style mega factory beef production, it is catastrophic for the environment but you showcased your cattle locally raised glass fed and absolutely fine given that beef consumption needs to be satisfied. Policies need to promote our farmers to grow more & its shocking that people like you are not supported appropriately. Great content Harry keep it up.
The policies create opportunities for Australia and New Zealand
Part of a bigger plan i'm afraid. See UN Agenda 2030, sustainable development will cause famine for the west. Everyone should read it especially the farming community! #Itscoming
Your comment on Avocados is a generalisation. Check growing data for Australia. The problems of other countries are not there.
@@paulwaite2219 as I said it's an obvious example & by inference is not the only problem, the carbon footprint of transportation is very high for anything moved from the other side of the world & that's before we get into production/processing impacts. Any comments in this tiny forum are likely to be generalised however its a multi faceted problem. One thing however is encouraging UK farmers to produce food for us is an area they should focus on rather than discourage it or seemly so. Encouraging new potential crops, Harry is open to this & probably the type of individual we need driving farming policy
Well said. I couldn’t agree more.
We need our farmers to produce more, food food security and energy security should be the top priority .
Most of the cabinet is Asian, no wonder nobody has any experience of British farming........
@@ljd8520 Ugly racism. And it's not even true.
@@manekdubash5022 Ugly for you.
Thanks for that very interesting content Harry. This government has no detailed plan for agriculture and for that matter nor the economy. The main reason for this is to identify how things could be done better or where we are going wrong there would have to be an investigation which would show up the disaster that Brexit has been. So no plan then. I dread to think what the English Hill farmers are going to do. Farmers number one priority should be producing food for our country not being paid park keepers. How can it be good for the environment to import Beef and Lamb from the other side of the world? We should be supporting our farmers to provide us with our own high quality produce and meat which they do so well. Beggars belief.
Love your new Bully pup Stanley, great characters. We have had and enjoyed them since the eighties.
Unfortunately this government has no clear policies on anything, they only have 3 word sound bites something they took from Mr Trump! It appears that the only effectively organize is parties, to organize them in the middle of a pandemic takes a serious level of deceptive organization, (ironic comment). Thank you Harry for once again talking sense, like you say someone, somewhere must have looked at how much carbon grass takes in, probably not pushed though as grass isn't as sexy as trees.
I wish the government would focus on helping farmers grow good quality, high welfare and sustainable foods. We can’t keep relying on imports from abroad, HMG should be helping farmers, not penalising them.
If so, we better start (I’m from the Netherlands, yet in my opinion we have the same underlying problems) educating what quality really is. Most people seem not to be able to answer the most basic questions about their food nowadays.
The UK exports 1.6 billions worth of meat to the EU so should we stop relying on that revenue then?
HMG is beholden to lobbyists.
@@batousan_ we also import a lot. Surely it makes more sense to stop exporting what we import.
@@sh-hg4eg that was kinda what I was getting at...
What you say makes sense to me, but I live in a town and know nothing about farming. I only became interested by watching Clarkson’s Farm (5 times!) and realise how difficult it is to make your industry profitable. I wish you well, and thank you for explaining things so clearly.
Your talk on the future of farming in England was very informative. England has the worst deal with the cut in subsidies whilst the rest of the UK is doing very nicely thank you. Being paid to leave your wheat in the ground when we are having to import food highlights the complete stupidity of this government. The farmers should be left to make these important decisions and not the politicians who have no knowledge of what is required. If the vegan’s diet has to be imported then steak and chips will be so much cheaper than their plant based diet.
Good to see you back. Happy healthy New Year to you and your family
Enlightening as always! Thanks for the time you put into these videos.
This has become my favorite chanel.
Thank you, Harry.
very well said harry you have to wonder what these politicians are smoking !
I have binged watched all of your videos. Very informative about the importance of agriculture for the UK's environment, food supply chain security and quality/standard of food. Love it and thank you.
Thank you Harry for people like you because we all have to eat.
I'm so glad you're back on your farm channel, Harry
The voice of reason and common sense, as ever Harry! I had some Canadian friends a long time ago who admired the efficiency of the UK at producing its own food. It seems that has all gone and all we have is a Ministry more concerned with birdies and hedgerows, than food security and self-sufficiency. Robert Winder's 'The Last Wolf' talks about the Medieval campaign to rid the county of wolves, so we could develop our wool industry. Now some lunatics want to reintroduce them. Have we gone totally mad in this country to be led by the nose by people such as Chris Packham?
Don't blame the likes of Chris Packham - blame their enablers such as the BBC who promote them and give them a platform.
If you talk to these people then you soon get down to why they hold these views. Many of these people are adherents to a globalised society and envision a world in which we can just import anything we need. It's the same idea that allows them to justify bringing in never ending amounts of people into such a small land mass. They don't see the world as it is but in an infantile and utopian way in which differing nations, populations and cultures no long exist but we are all one interchangeable mass.
Thus, your local security concerns are irrelevant to them because they don't recognise your locality as a distinct thing.
Glad you're back. I have missed these Harry.
One of my fave channels, good to see you back.
(funny I stumbled into this from the Garage, found that farming is more interesting than cars, lol)
Hahaha! Same here!!
4:25 the dog parking it’s breakfast on the wheat and the emergency camera pan 😂😂
Yes we spotted that too Mrs M did a good job quickly with the camera
Thank you for highlighting and explaining what is really going on in the future of farming. Would be good to get this (or an edited version) out to a wider audience. I think most people are still very ignorant of whats coming in the pipeline and would be surprised at what you have just come out with. Harryrants are good and show a real passion and concern so lacking in the powers that are making the lame decisions at present.
Thank you for another super interesting video!! I come from Harry's Garage, but I love the Harry's Farm videos also a lot! But here the star is your new Puppy!! Please make sure he is appearing often in your videos!!! 😍😍
Thank you for bringing this type of crowd pleasing hype to the fore. I hope you are able to bring the farming view to the general public and maybe then the weight of public opinion can be put to better use. As Bullie owners, we were delighted to see Stanley has joined the family and send him our Mini Bullie Penny's best regards 😁
" crowd-pleasing hype" that was exactly the phrase I should have used
More power to you Harry - people will have a transformation regarding food and farming once they start to go hungry. Govt haven't got the first idea and after all this time it is a total shambles. Keep up the good work - you and your 'farmer' neighbour are a force for good
Great video as ever and I shall be watching your videos now more for a glimpse of Stanley than anything else!
Fascinating, as always Harry. Thanks for pointing out your figures of the farm. It seems that too many think of this nirvana where food is grown elsewhere, and therefore has no environmental impact, and they can look at pretty scenery nearer home. BTW, looks like we have a new star in Stanley. :-) Lovely looking pup.
Farming looks like it could decline like industry has - thanks to naive government policies. We closed our 'dirty' factories and now import stuff from even dirtier factories in China...... Are we about to do the same with food production? I share your concern about food security - can see the headlines in a couple of year 'Price of bread trebles thanks to the rise in wheat prices on international markets....'
The video online... the ERG economist and JRM on oath (remember House of Commons committee hearings are at the same standing as courts) at a House of Commons committee hearing they both said... farming has not had the market and Thatcherite economics/forces applied to it and if need be should go the way of coal and suffer the same effect what happens to the villages and towns who lost there coal pts etc.
call me a cynic, but I believe this gov wants to eliminate small farmers, with the result that land comes up for sale and is bought up by the mega sized arigi-business.
In this part of the country, (west of Scotland) , a huge decline in agriculture has already taken place , the decline continues and I fully expect people to be hungry in the foreseeable future. A tragedy.
@@davidhyoung2020 I believe it is the Gov's stated intention to become more reliant on imported foods. Hence the trade deals with Oz and NZ?
Yep China is buying up grain on an epic scale
Harry I'm a arable and pig farm about 300 acres and have never been so anxious about the future. Government just doesn't seem to want or appreciate us farmers.we can't seem to plan for next week let alone next year.really like your opinion on things and thankfully they are similar to mine.never has there been so many disillusioned farmers in the country.
Love the little pup. Thank you for. brining some common-sense to the new CAP. I fear the future for my son and Grandsons on our family farm. We have already lost our pig unit!!! Take care.
Great vid Harry, and very informative as usual. I have to say that it appears yer man George Useless hasn’t got a scooby! I think things won’t change for the better until we have a Govt that works collaboratively with the farming community and for the good of the future of farming.
That clip of going through those mud chicanes was very impressive.
I thought so too. Mud like that normally stops you dead. Only thing in Defender’s favour was there wasn’t a slope involved..
Long-term subscriber of both of your superb channels. You must despair, as I do, with Govt. policy. I have never known such ineptitude and head in the sand thinking from our elected representatives.
I am an avid Harry’s Garage fan. First time I’ve checked out your other channel. I know nothing about farming but found this really interesting and it gave me just a tiny insight into how tough it must be for farmers to plan ahead and to make any money! I will definitely check out more of your content on this channel. PS - on holiday in south west Scotland and just watched a new calf being born in the field next to our holiday cottage and taking his first steps. Amazing! Michael.
Thank you for explaining / highlighting food security, the reliance on imports and the high carbon heavy food miles required for specialist vegan diets. Non political, non trendy information like this ever hits the headlines. more's the pity.
Nice treat to find a new Harry's Farm video posted today
That was quite a speech , it had many interesting aspects , thanks for that . cheers from the north .
Harry our government should listen to you more ! Keep up the good work .
Superbly informative video. And equally high quality comments. It seems to me the National Farmers Union haven’t done a very good job of defending British farmer’s interests and how they can contribute towards protecting the environment and managing climate change.
Very interesting topic Harry, thanks for explaining this very well 👍
Cracking video, Harry, I am so impressed that folk such as yourself can/will keep going on these highly stressful farming businesses, especially given the returns you have. I just don't know how you all do it. I have great admiration and respect for your dogmatic and openminded approach. Please keep it up. PS Be careful with the vegans, if you suggest in any way that their ethos is a problem then they will seek to cancel you, they don't understand reality.
Always honest and candid presentation. Veganism and its demands and impact on the UK have clearly never been presented properly.
Brilliant video as always Harry wev all missed you, your exactly right about the subsadies, we are in England but could throw a stone into Wales why is the support going to be so different
Will be interesting to see how the new ELM plays out. Think your points on 'sustainable intensification' are really valid, especially about crop rotations with nitrogen fixers
Very polished. A good in depth, watchable video.
And an honest assessment of your own situation.
Possibly one of the most important things RUclips can accomplish is to put us all in direct touch with the food producers.
As always, on point and informative. I’d vote for you any day
Your new pup Stanley is my favourite breed. He’s gorgeous and definitely needs a channel of his own.
Great video, bringing lives stock in to an agricultural system can be beneficial but it does not have to be grass, their are options for grazing cover crops for overwintering which has a wide verity benefits. Their are lots of farmers trying regenerative agricultural, and BASE UK are a great organisation for experience and guidance on how to transition.
Thank you so very much indeed harry..always interesting informative and enjoyable ciao ciao
Hello Harry, really like these videos. I almost like them more than the Harry’s Garage. I have no interest in farming, but you make these so fascinating that I watch everyone. It is the way you talk and explain everything. I have an idea for you as some of your fields are so flat. Sow a strip of 600 metres by 15 metres. Put up a shed - Hangar and base 5-10 light aircraft. Charge each one £200 per month. All you need to do is roll and cut grass.
Thankfully a source of common sense most appreciated Harry.
Great video Harry. I am in SFI having been in HLS. Completely agree with your comments regarding food security. I would sooner have rotational cover crop / nectar options that would still allow me to grow food and increase production, whilst maintaining OM.
Oh yes those well known acronyms.
@@baronvonhoughton Sorry Bob.
HLS: Higher Level Scheme.
SFI: Sustainable Farming Incentive
@@DavidPark52 Bless ya, thanks
I am a gentleman farmer in Ann Arbor, MI, USA. My friends are actual farmers out here, some with many thousands of acres each. It is critical to understand that what he says is the absoultely true!! We need actual farm production, not more widelife managament. Holy moley!!! Harry is correct!!!
Well, you know a gentleman farmer is neither a farmer, nor a gentleman…….😜
Did you notice the vast areas of trees around the area he filmed. That is nothing compared to livestock areas of the UK where there are hedges, trees and forests everywhere. The wildlife, certainly in my area, is being devastated by ‘protected’ apex predators that are far too densely populated to allow ground nesting birds and small lizards and mammals to survive. They are apex predator’s food.
What’s your definition of a gentlemen farmer
@@davidedge2189 I told you! See above…..
Well put Harry, couldn't agree more with your thinkings. I'm not a farmer but can totally see where you're coming from. Worrying times ahead if the Government are pushing you to let your crops grow wild instead of letting you harvest it and make our food more UK based rather than importing everything from elsewhere. I saw a post from Chris Packham which showed a pot of fruit that had been grown in Argentina.... shipped acrossed the Globe to Thailand to be put into containers (pots) and then shipped back across the Globe to a UK Supermarket!!!! Where the hell is the thinking behind that on the Carbon Footprint..... madness. 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
*It's all in the Carbon Neutral Claim by 2030 - Absolutely Crazy ! Green Party I did NOT Vote For !*
Very interesting video Harry, thanks for the insightful explanations
As a bee farmer the thought of fields full of clover fill me with joy. Just like my grandad used to talk about… more honey - more money!
Another great video. Well done on the bull terrier , I have one on our farm in Scotland, great dogs.
Illuminating. Thanks Harry 👍
Thank you Harry for another informative and interesting video. It’s yet another indication that so called ministers and their advisors have no idea what they are talking about and no real knowledge of their subject . Why they don’t come and talk to farmers and agree a policy that ma work I don’t know . Keep up the good work.
Lovely Bully Harry. Amazing dogs, total clowns and quite unique in some of their behaviours. He'll be heaps of fun.
I'm sure I'm not alone thinking one of the benefits of leaving Europe would be that we could focus more on UK farmers, that doesn't seem to be the case. Sad as I agree 100% that UK farming should be one of our highest priorities. Food miles? so last year!
The brexit agenda was infiltrated by international food merchants that care very little for the British farmers
There’s practically no benefits to leaving Europe. You were conned.
food miles no longer exist as a problem .. the global agenda does not allow it... and this measure do and will further lead to food insecurity.. as more and more of this lunacy hits the world other countries will want to keep their own good and not export to us.. some of the measures being introduced will lead to even more food insecurity
@@composimmonite3918 oh I dont know.. I wouldnt have minded a blue passport just for a change 🤷🏼♂️
We need to grow our own food we cannot rely on any country to guarantee supplies of key products like food, vaccines medicines and fuel did any member of Parliament consult with people like Harry doesn't seem like it the stupidity of MPs has no bounds I really wonder where our country is going you even have people like Chris Packham wanting to stop shooting wood pigeons they destroy huge quantities of vegetable and arable crops because there are too many and need to be controlled
Thanks for the vid. The side of farming needs to be highlighted, money and environment.
I'm so sorry for all farmers in the UK (and elsewhere) for the low profit on crops. Damn, you surely have my compassion.
Ofc all other kind of farmers as well, but crops are the only thing I got any insight in. I know there is a huge problem for anyone who keeps cattle, sheeps, pigs, chicken, etc., that electricity prices are through the roof.
Another great video, highlighting the very real challenges faced by British Farmers. Urbanisation and Globalisation has had such a negative impact on the countryside in the last 40 years, everything from driving up property prices to switching Government focus away from what we should be focused on (food security being pretty high!)…. Anyway, I’d like to see much more of Stanley, he’s great…!
Well said Harry. Government not fit for purpose. We should be growing more, can’t do that by planting more trees and unproductive headlands, which the government is happy to pay farmers to do. Absolutely crazy. Have you considered standing as an MP.
If the population is reduced, not so much food is needed to be grown. It’s not beyond the realms! And if Harry wants to know what he needs to be doing ahead of 2024, I suggest that he looks at what the large landowners (Duchy’s of Lancaster & Cornwall may be a good starting point) are doing now to get an idea.
Yes Harry please do....we need a defender. Off hand can't think of anyone better suited.
Great video Harry, absolutely support your comments
Government gets it wrong again? Now there's a thing...... Great video Harry, thanks.
Just enjoying the video as always. It's always a pleasure to keep up to date with whats going on with PPPUPPYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG /STANLEY IS SO ADORABLE
Spot on, Harry. Very thought provoking. Many thanks for pointing out the madness of current government policy.
Perhaps if No 10 hosted a “bring your own British food party”, then they might come to the conclusion that we do not grow very much at all.
You mean ‘business meeting’
Well done Harry. Yet another great video on the true facts of farming and the environment
Shame you couldn’t get some some time on the bbc
Another informative episode Mr M, thank you.
You may be interested to hear that the (initially) reported CO2 impact of a plant-based 🥐 was in error. There is a great piece (8 minutes long) on BBC radio’s More or Less that delves into this and the difficulty of calculating environmental impact generally. It’s the 14th November 2021 podcast (8mins long). My earlier comment on this seems to have been deleted, possibly for including a link!
You have given me something to think about, thanks.
Apart from interesting facts on modern day farming and gorgeous cars you now have my favourite breed of dog, wonderful Stanley great on a farm terrific rat catchers!.
Another absolutely fantastic video Harry, the government seems hell bent on cutting any home grown production, whether its agriculture or manufacturing off at the knees and relying on importing everything, I find it absolutely shocking we import so much milk! Does anyone in these government departments actually have any real life experience in the fields they are destroying?
HaPpY New Year to Harry’s Farm.
Good Luck with the new Bull Terrier
As he gets older he has the propensity to become more stubborn than the Government.
Great video harry, really well explained as usual.
Another highly educational video. Thanks Harry
Fantastically informative. Why isn’t this lot in the news it’s madness
Food security is common sense which unfortunately our government are lacking in everyway
Three's no opportunity in graft in food security.
Thanks Harry, that was really informative. Food for thought…………or maybe not!
This is brilliant! We now start to understand how our food is produced and how incompetent our politicians are.They could not run a wine and cheese party in a brewery!!!!
Been a while since we've seen you out on the Farm, Harry. Too many tasty treats in your Garage, like the purple Bentley that keep you out on the B roads instead of in the fields with the Defender. Good to have you back with dirt on your boots and mud in the wheel wells.
Great talk.
My take on the future: look at each acre of land, if it can grow a useful crop then put it to food, if it's too steep or rocky then put it to hardwood trees (I know a man who harvests his trees with a horse and chalns, totally low impact). Britain needs to be 'green' and well quality fed. A few more fields of Chia would be good.
Great content as usual and we are heading back to US after 2 years here. 2 nurses with 25 years experience but not worked since coming back in 19! Keep up the fight and look at Ostritch meat as an alternative, very little methane produced and good tasty brown meat. Even your local Aldi imports it from S. Africa!
Fascinating and informed musings, as ever, Harry. More than ever, we could do with a change of leadership at the top. Too late for a career change, Harry?
I've been waiting for a video for a long time
Good episode Harry.
I don’t know much about farming, watch these videos just out of interest of the back of Harry’s Garage. The video of the Defender snaking through the tight, muddy woodland was EPIC! thanks for sharing.
Great review Harry
Harry, I know you love cars and farming. You channels are at the top of my list to watch - and I finish EVERY video.
I think it would be great if you could use your voice to actually impact the decisions made by the UK government. You have a way with words that could probably sway them towards sane farming decisions through lobbying, etc.
More Stanley please!! What a gorgeous dog
Harry for the Leader of the free world!
Loves classic cars, loves supercars, loves the environment, talks with logic....
Hiya from Fremantle 😁🤟
Fascinating update.
I'm a car guy and Harry's Farm excites me even more than the Garage(which I love), because I'm learning about something that I know absolutely nothing about.
An example of what the policy changes will mean is what our consultant suggested to us this week , we are an organic dairy farm and he outlined us cutting cow numbers in half , shedding all payed staff and ploughing up some of our permanent pasture to grow cereals or whatever attracts the highest payments , on paper we would actually be better off than we are right now with much less work , there will be hundreds or thousands of farmers who will have worked the same thing out , not good for the shoppers as the shelves will be bare
Spot on Harry - it makes no sense to reduce our own crop production and import instead. Madness.
Thank you Harry. i don't understand what is going on with English Government and agriculture. tempted to say it's short sighted, but actually not sure there is any sight. certainly no vision.
Good stuff Harry- well summarised. It’s a confusing and worrying time for us in the farming community. My big fear is that despite all the well meaning encouraging words, the reality will be a disappointing typical government fudge that misses the massive wins that could be available. I’m very cynical about the likely outcome once the Treasury decides what funding it can or, more to the point, can’t afford. I think the pressure on them to rein in agricultural spending will be immense. Then there’s inevitable raft of impenetrable bureaucracy, rules and paperwork that average farmers can’t fathom that will stifle the farmer led innovation that industry badly needs and could easily supply with the right encouragement. The main beneficiaries of it all will be the agricultural support industries like professional advisors, land agents etc.
I think any subsidy payments need to be based on measurable beneficial returns from changes in farming methods that influence important keystone issues such as soil organic matter/carbon, water quality etc on our farms. So if you increase soil organic matter beyond a base figure you will receive a financial reward for your efforts. It’s up to the farmer to decide how this is best done on his farm. Similarly if changes in your farming methods lower nitrate or phosphate levels in the run off from your farm then you get rewarded. This would be much more preferable to the prescriptive alternatives that we already see in similar arrangements like the countryside stewardship scheme.
Totally agree with you. It seems madness to set something up that would mean having to import more. Farmers need help but for the right reasons
I agree they need help .. it is not just farming that the rules are different .. prescription charges local benefits like housing benefit .. there seems to be a crushing of England
It's not madness to these people because they are trying to build a global utopia and your local concerns are nothing more than an inconvenience to their plans.
Good video as always. I just read a selection of the comments below. All good valid points. I fear they will remain as common sense opinions only. There is no longer anyone in power thinking beyond ticking boxes and securing their own personal wealth. We will all just have to do our best without leadership from those in power.