Floods are having a big impact on Harry's Farm..

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  • Опубликовано: 16 ноя 2019
  • It's hardly stopped raining since the 23rd of September and six month's rainfall has fallen in just six weeks and the farm is really suffering. Here's an update.

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  • @K2shadowfax
    @K2shadowfax 4 года назад +173

    Harry, a man out-standing in his field.

    • @nitro911
      @nitro911 4 года назад +3

      PandaPapa146 is this an intro by Jeremy Clarkson?!

    • @maidenrulz73
      @maidenrulz73 4 года назад

      PandaPapa146 👏👏👏👏

    • @Retrogamer71
      @Retrogamer71 4 года назад +1

      Arable 'arry!

    • @stevepearce6689
      @stevepearce6689 4 года назад

      very good. Made my Monday morning ! ta Brisbane Australia

    • @IDBuzzSteve
      @IDBuzzSteve 4 года назад

      Give that man an OBE

  • @Mireaze
    @Mireaze 4 года назад +132

    So when does the first rice crop go in?

    • @90OscarS
      @90OscarS 4 года назад +3

      lol :D

    • @disuye
      @disuye 4 года назад +9

      Harry could start growing alaskan crabs in that.

    • @rapid170
      @rapid170 3 года назад +1

      @@disuye PMSL ribs aching ! I 🤣

  • @jakelarman5728
    @jakelarman5728 4 года назад +11

    Best of luck with all your crop Harry ! I am very very interested in farming and cars ! When you started this Chanel it’s was a prayer answered ! I’d like to get you a pint one day 👍🏼

  • @IanRMcAllister
    @IanRMcAllister 4 года назад +65

    Nice video!
    Firstly, thanks for putting the Bunts in. I see when you originally did, the Local Parish council thanked you and your wife. Thank You also from the rest of us!
    Secondly, I always find your video's very educational on both farming (I have friends who are milk farmers, but none ar arable), but also on environmental issues. It's something which I conclude that the Government should be getting farmers involved in education, and hence broadening the horizons and environmental debate beyond the main-stream activist yurt-dwelling lobby (they are not wrong, just too dominant in the debate).
    Thirdly, your gate/wall. Yes there are new Data Protection directives which mean the police can not freely give you/the land owner the drivers details, but under the Road Traffic Act (1988) the rules are simple:
    "If you’re driving a motorised vehicle and are involved in an accident which causes damage or injury to another person, vehicle, property or animal, (including dogs, horses, cattle and sheep), you must stop and give your vehicle registration along with your name and address to “anyone with reasonable grounds to be asking for those details”."
    Hence, as under the law the landowner and yourself as tenant have "reasonable grounds to be asking for the drivers details", you should be reporting the lack of contact from the offending driver directly to the police, and the police should hence be following up and threatening action against the driver under the Road Traffic Act (1988). Good Luck!

    • @mr.airgun6921
      @mr.airgun6921 4 года назад +7

      Nice post Ian

    • @philipedwards7660
      @philipedwards7660 4 года назад

      Would you like to continue with what the road traffic act states if there is no one at the scene at the time of the accident to give your details to

  • @tomtilley3162
    @tomtilley3162 4 года назад +19

    thank you for doing these vids and exsplaining how everytrhing works ! i'm finding it very interesting

  • @MoultrieGeek
    @MoultrieGeek 4 года назад +1

    And here in the southwest of Georgia we just endured the driest September on record. In the past I wouldn't given it a second thought but thanks to Harry's Farm I now watch the farming reports with a keen eye. Thanks Harry!

  • @kerrygleeson4409
    @kerrygleeson4409 4 года назад +1

    Good luck with the weather Harry thanks for sharing 👍🇦🇺🚜

  • @grayfool
    @grayfool 4 года назад +1

    Thanks for another look at your farm Harry. Fascinating stuff as usual. Good luck with the weather.

  • @jrushen4235
    @jrushen4235 4 года назад +1

    Very interesting Harry. Thanks for your time.

  • @M16xblowDRO
    @M16xblowDRO 4 года назад +3

    Thoughts are with ya Harry, what a pain!

  • @okumonux
    @okumonux 4 года назад +5

    That was like watching a safari; I kept waiting for a Hippo to turn up.

  • @timedmunds9054
    @timedmunds9054 4 года назад

    Thanks so much Harry ,It’s no better in Norfolk. It’s been dreadful since your last post! Fingers crossed for the next week.

  • @sburge1989
    @sburge1989 4 года назад +2

    I live in Worcestershire and theyve started to plant really short crops in the fields near the river Teme and behind that a bunch of willow for pelletising. Anything else is going to dissapear. Over near the Carrington bridge outside of Worcester there is about 3 miles either side of the dual carriage thats under water, included in this is all the works vehicles being used to build another bridge. I've no idea what made them leave their machinery on the flood plain in winter but I bet it will cost them!

  • @jaytoppo1670
    @jaytoppo1670 4 года назад

    Wishing you the best of luck Harry, a farmer's furious fight for successful yields is never easy especially with this wacky weather. The odd's are always stacked against you guys, how you do all this absolutely amazes me, hat off to you sir!!

  • @stevedarcy9542
    @stevedarcy9542 4 года назад

    Great video Harry, I live in Warwickshire so I know how bad things have been for yourself and many land owners, as I do metal detecting around The Warwickshire area. Talking about rooks on your land, last year I saw rooks/ crows pulling up rows upon rows off pumpkin plants the farmer had only planted the week before. Good luck with your crops, you never know I might be detecting in the field near you one day. Thanks for sharing.

  • @barrysheridan9186
    @barrysheridan9186 4 года назад

    Good update Harry, thanks.

  • @brianelifritz4806
    @brianelifritz4806 4 года назад

    Hope things get better. Love your videos

  • @philhicks5818
    @philhicks5818 4 года назад

    Great video Harry , informative, we still haven’t put a single grain in the ground , can’t see it happening this side of Christmas

  • @robertdaly9036
    @robertdaly9036 4 года назад

    Tough farming conditions at the moment with the amount of rain falling.
    Nice video as usual. 👍👍

  • @bowlock9901
    @bowlock9901 4 года назад

    I'd love to come and paint your farm one day Harry, it looks beautiful. I'm from Lincolnshire.

  • @whispjohn
    @whispjohn 4 года назад +1

    I half expected to see Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse fishing down there! Sorry to see the wetness Harry, I hope the weather holds or you.

  • @jep1912
    @jep1912 4 года назад

    Good luck Harry, throwing you a wellie-load of warm and dry stuff from Australia.

  • @martianmuppet
    @martianmuppet 4 года назад +2

    Blimey Harry I really hope things turn good for you mate.

  • @grenvillephillips6998
    @grenvillephillips6998 4 года назад +47

    The three plagues of agriculture: weather, vermin and bureaucracy!

    • @sh-hg4eg
      @sh-hg4eg Год назад

      There's a fourth now. Organised Albanian gangs.

  • @richardhintonracing
    @richardhintonracing 4 года назад

    Amazed you can stay so cheerful............and we still have 3 or 4 months of winter in front of us.

  • @maff1975
    @maff1975 4 года назад

    I have no idea why this appeared in my recommendations but I’m glad it did! It reminds me why I used to watch countryfile. You’ve gained a subscriber.

  • @umvhu
    @umvhu 4 года назад

    Harry, you have a creative mind, you will find a way of making your new water features work for you.

  • @lionvillelion
    @lionvillelion 4 года назад +57

    ever consider raising trout?

    • @90OscarS
      @90OscarS 4 года назад

      xD xD

    • @SnakeyUk08
      @SnakeyUk08 4 года назад +5

      Hello welcome to Harrys Trout Farm..........

  • @drchunkybiscuit9973
    @drchunkybiscuit9973 4 года назад +7

    Harry Eastwood! Love the hat. 😊👍

  • @urbanrider5406
    @urbanrider5406 4 года назад +14

    Interesting Harry,could you do a vlog on Brexit,and the impact on the farm from your perspective as a farmer not a politician.chris

    • @justbreakingballs
      @justbreakingballs 4 года назад +2

      He’d be a fool to enter into that on here.

    • @chubeye1187
      @chubeye1187 2 года назад

      He doesn't want to upset the thicko brexiters

  • @yarkmates3409
    @yarkmates3409 4 года назад

    The Barlings Eau In that photo on the magazine, is just up the road from me , poor chaps surrounded in the farmhouse , it’s just Crazy the amount of flooding in Lincolnshire atm

  • @UAPJedi
    @UAPJedi 4 года назад +3

    I always find it difficult to like a video of someone else’s misfortune, but I take heart in knowing it does help with video income.

  • @goodbyemrchips4174
    @goodbyemrchips4174 4 года назад

    Great Video Harry, with no music. Interesting as ever thanks.

  • @TeamRobertson
    @TeamRobertson 4 года назад +2

    The local law are partially correct, but.
    S172 of the road traffic act required the other party to exchange their details, registration, name and address. The police would fail with the new GDPR regulations if they took those details help on a computer system and gave them to you, UNLESS, the other party authorises them to do so. Your insurance company can now make a data protection request to the Police for those details, explaining their reasons.
    Hope that helps.

  • @yetidh9
    @yetidh9 4 года назад +4

    Brave man going wading in that wrist watch.

  • @timogaleon1630
    @timogaleon1630 4 года назад

    Goodness me, what a battle and on so many fronts! Salaried folk have simply no idea of the uncertainties of income that go with farming. Diversification is so important these days. As for privacy laws.... the Police need to get a sensible interpretation from their legal experts, asap. Good luck with the weather, Harry, and hope the crops survive and thrive!

  • @tunnel7
    @tunnel7 Год назад

    Top bloke our Harry.

  • @SMGJohn
    @SMGJohn 4 года назад

    Harry, rowing through his beautiful farm fields.

  • @eriktengwall2704
    @eriktengwall2704 4 года назад

    So sorry to see the state of your ground. We have had more than oue share of rain I think! The weather here in Shropshire has been as bad, living by a river as I do, large quantities of rain make me nervous. I have experienced two floods here . and so on rainy nights I am out every houre or so checking our bridge for blockages and removing them. Stressfull and sleepless until the river abaits its torrential flow!
    It is awful to see acres of land under water. Regrettably caused by traditional land management techniques, and lack of investment by councils across the UK in drain and waterway management.
    We as land owners and custodians can also help, by changing the way we do agriculture and horticulture. Check out Gabe Brown. ( he has stuff on youtube.)His experience on profitable land management is truly fascinating viewing. The methods he promotes help alleviate flooding and soil erosion, improves porosity and productivity in the soil. Also its bacteria and carbon sequention, which in turn gives better cropping.
    He could open your eyes to a whole new approach to farming in the uk, we need to look after our soils better, it will help global warming end quicker and make for profitable, sustainable agriculture for future generations. Check out his lectures on youtube. as he says he is in it for the money, and if its not profitable, he walks away.
    ruclips.net/video/uUmIdq0D6-A/видео.html

  • @Ashfielder
    @Ashfielder 4 года назад +2

    Perfect place to test out that Aston powerboat.

  • @giovannigallo8429
    @giovannigallo8429 4 года назад +2

    Harry, you can save on mooring fees 😂 hope weather improves, great video..

    • @davidmg1925
      @davidmg1925 4 года назад +1

      Yeah needs to bring the sunseeker up there.
      It's good job he's got lots of lolly he can affoird it, some cant.

  • @Ashfielder
    @Ashfielder 4 года назад

    I feel the same way. I’ve been trying to dry a memory foam pillow for a week now.

  • @nickturnbull4302
    @nickturnbull4302 4 года назад

    Just love these videos just goes to show what challenges farmers have these days including ridiculous privacy laws.

  • @m0ogy
    @m0ogy 4 года назад

    Yes Lincolnshire is very bad.......our Village roads were shut off even......

  • @ianmedium
    @ianmedium 4 года назад +1

    Harry, you had my sphincter tighten wading in that water with the Patek on your wrist, if you fell in I’m not sure that one could handle that amount of water what with it’s case adjusters for the calendar mechanism!

  • @tonychambers4302
    @tonychambers4302 4 года назад

    Harry could present anything and I would listen

  • @lemmy9996
    @lemmy9996 4 года назад +6

    And now, from Harry Metcalfe we have Harry's Pond (0:14)

  • @pj9375
    @pj9375 4 года назад +1

    Forget rice Harry, I'd be considering tuna/dolphin 👍. Views in this being attributed to global warming or just one of those one offs?... Fabulous as always... thank you.

  • @marinedrive5484
    @marinedrive5484 4 года назад +1

    I see you've moved to the Lake District, Harry. Reminds me of my father on the farm when he encountered 'challenges' the only difference is that he didn't display your equanimity - the air would turn quite blue.

  • @robertdoyle1624
    @robertdoyle1624 4 года назад +6

    Hey Harry
    Send some of that water over to us in Aus

    • @goodnessofg-d1315
      @goodnessofg-d1315 4 года назад

      Bobby Doyle
      You give us 100,000 kangaroos
      To roam free in our Irish lands.
      And we will supply all of Australia
      With enough rain and water
      To last you at least a thousand years.
      Love and kind regards from back home 🍀

    • @robertdoyle1624
      @robertdoyle1624 4 года назад +1

      @@goodnessofg-d1315 Deal

  • @sweed58
    @sweed58 4 года назад

    My farm in south west scotland is the same,water just sitting in the fields

  • @archiegoddard2714
    @archiegoddard2714 4 года назад

    Must’ve been freezing in those waders!
    Great video though well done.

  • @ruststar
    @ruststar 4 года назад +5

    Opening soon, Harry’s scuba diving school

  • @Kelsdoggy
    @Kelsdoggy 4 года назад +1

    Hi Harry, re the car crash into the wall the landowners insurance company can report it to the police who will release it and pay out etc. They are just not giving out the details to the farmer of the persons involved with the crash at this stage.

  • @SuperMAZ007
    @SuperMAZ007 4 года назад

    It's amazing to see such pounds. But wait should there be a water training system? Probably it can't run off to the nearest river and may have to do with geology of the area as well.

  • @JohnnyMotel99
    @JohnnyMotel99 4 года назад

    I think it was 2007 when France received huge rains. I was living around Duras and went to see the Dordogne in full flood. Same thing as you have but x10 or something. Fields of water as far as you can see.

  • @Daddysboys75
    @Daddysboys75 4 года назад

    Wow, privacy laws?
    Hahaha...that is ridiculous...great video as always 😎🤘

  • @dani18sg
    @dani18sg 4 года назад +5

    With the numbers on the back side of the mirror you can track the car they belong (if it was the original)

  • @TheGlassman14
    @TheGlassman14 3 года назад +1

    Maybe plant native trees that have a high absorption in their roots and trunks of water. Should take much of that water away.

  • @HardlyNormal12
    @HardlyNormal12 4 года назад

    Crazy that you’ve had record breaking rains and flooding in the uk, meanwhile here in Australia farmers are dealing with huge drought and vast bushfires.

  • @johnj.baranski6553
    @johnj.baranski6553 4 года назад +3

    Most interesting content on youtube in years.....

  • @AndrewBrown-kw8bl
    @AndrewBrown-kw8bl 4 года назад +1

    Thanks Harry good video why not invest in some fish make it into fisheries or a boating lake ttfn

  • @marcusFZ6
    @marcusFZ6 4 года назад

    Sods law with the drainage in different fields. It rains lot and it floods. It's as dry as a bone and the ground retains no moisture. Doesn't matter what you do, always against something.
    Best of luck with the weather.
    Here in Western Australia its just as crazy, mega hot days followed by the next 10°C cooler. Nothing you can forecast, just go by the day.

  • @zakelwe
    @zakelwe 4 года назад

    Shame that watching this in June that the excess water from late last year and Feb could not be stored and used in May. The British Isles is blessed with having 4 seasons but a shame they are getting more wet / dry.

  • @pedrobotinasguedes
    @pedrobotinasguedes 4 года назад

    You make Farming look Cool!
    I Hope you can start a Famers Web summit event

  • @james-5560
    @james-5560 4 года назад +6

    It can’t be right that the police won’t tell you the property owner the information, surely. That’s madness.

  • @timfromtang
    @timfromtang 4 года назад

    Our fields at home have names, do yours? we've Gurteen, Bugaun, Sandpit field, high field, churchyard field, lawn field, miss Farrels, old town, etc

  • @PhilUKNet
    @PhilUKNet 4 года назад +1

    If it really is a 1-in-300 year weather system there's not a lot you can do. Here in Thailand water management and flood prevention are perpetual problems with constantly alternating periods of drought and monsoon rain. Previously, large reservoirs were built to store water during the rainy season to use in the dry season. The policy has changed in recent years to build lots of smaller reservoirs rather than fewer large ones. The Akubra hat suits you! Australian farmers would appreciate some of that water after a prolonged period of intense drought. I'd rather be in a country with too much water than too little. That business about the police not being able to tell you who caused damage to your property because of privacy laws further vindicates my decision to leave the UK. The country is going down the drain fast. I'd be tempted to write a letter to Priti Patel about this utter stupidity. Very interesting video though, Harry, getting an inside view into the problems faced by UK farmers. It looks as if Brits should prepare themselves for higher bread prices next year.

  • @jimgannon1917
    @jimgannon1917 4 года назад

    Would a cover crop have removed enough moisture to disc drill ,Harry
    Hope thinks pick up

  • @darrenhudson5503
    @darrenhudson5503 4 года назад

    Feel for all farmers

  • @ChoPi-Eww
    @ChoPi-Eww 4 года назад +5

    Might have to change the name to "Harry's swamp"

  • @wernerdanler2742
    @wernerdanler2742 4 года назад

    Think rice paddy. Looks familiar. Oh ya, Nam. Telegraph pole? Lol

  • @Gustav4
    @Gustav4 4 года назад +2

    If you increase the soil carbon content by 1%, one hectare will hold 190.000 liters of water extra. You know where I'm getting at with this?

  • @davidmg1925
    @davidmg1925 4 года назад

    Harry the resolution on my lap top isnt good enough to from a sound opinion but those plants look fine to me.
    So long as the meristem/ growing point is a nice green colour you have a healthy plant.
    Plants are made to (sorry for that term) to reject such leaves as they dont need in times of stress ( poss water logging) but so long as that growing point is ok you're fine.
    (If there is one thing I acn do its grow plants)

  • @JamesMinchew
    @JamesMinchew 4 года назад

    Great video, as usual. I guess the price of bread is going to rise, then.

  • @JonDingle
    @JonDingle 4 года назад +1

    Interesting stuff. Glad to hear you are not blaming "global warming" as most commentators would be doing on the weather. In the USA, Andy who runs the YT channel Farming, Fixing & Fabricating was combining Mazie silage in the snow and Millenial Farmerwas having a moist time too with his combining. Up here in Yorkshire it has been quite wet too. However, throughout the sands of time weather patterns change and you only neeed to go back to the 1960's for severe winters and beyond that. Going back even further, history tells us of big rain events and such like. The land will recover but it will take time and losses will have to be coped with. No business is exempt from unexpected losses or from those beyond our control. Keep up the good work young man!

  • @breslin44
    @breslin44 4 года назад +5

    Very worrying times. Food prices will rise across Europe next year I reckon.

    • @JohnnyMotel99
      @JohnnyMotel99 4 года назад

      and you can almost guarantee they won't go back down!

    • @JohnnyMotel99
      @JohnnyMotel99 4 года назад

      @aljanat5 Hopefully we will sign that infamous USA FTA, then we can all gorge on super cheap crappy food...

  • @robc5955
    @robc5955 4 года назад

    Chatting with a farmer once some years ago he said there is only one way to make a small fortune in farming, and that's to start with a big one. He ended up selling land and developing it so thankfully it worked out for him but very few farms are in that position its very much from what I can see a gamble a lot of the time albeit at times you can try and influence with skill and knowledge but if the heaven's open for weeks on end your kinda knackered.

    • @sh-hg4eg
      @sh-hg4eg Год назад

      Glad he's doing well. Can't say the rest of us are too happy at seeing endless encroaching urbanisation from developers and their lobbying to bring in more people.

  • @johnmoruzzi7236
    @johnmoruzzi7236 4 года назад +2

    Ha ha .. get Ted too look at the drainage in the bottom field !

  • @russellmoore1533
    @russellmoore1533 4 года назад

    Bush fires and deep droughts around here in eastern Australia, send some of that rain this way.

  • @amremotewatching
    @amremotewatching 2 года назад +1

    ​ @Harry's Farm .. The gate/wall damage shown at 10:50 onwards was caused by a Fiat 500 (2007-2018 model) .. deciphered from the numbers on the right-hand wing mirror shell shown at 11:29 .. The accident was on the west side of the B4020 just south of the Burford Garden centre, co-ordinates 51°47'42.42"N, 1°37'45.24"W It must have been one hell of a crash for a featherweight car like the 500 to cause that much damage, and surely written the car off and caused injury to whoever was in it, all of which would have been recorded in various ways. The road is wide / flat / straight for at least 500ft in each direction so how this happened is a mystery. *_BUT .. if I can work all that out in 10 minutes, why can’t the police .. ?_*

    • @JackNormalMemes
      @JackNormalMemes 2 года назад +2

      Uh, the police know who it is, they just cant tell him under GDPR.

  • @MarkBrock
    @MarkBrock 4 года назад

    Do you have any ability to insure your crop for weather related production issues?

  • @Pique147
    @Pique147 4 года назад +2

    Video on French Drains coming up in 2020, Harry?

  • @petemulhearn7787
    @petemulhearn7787 4 года назад +3

    Looks like you should be into rice and trout farming Harry

  • @adrianburn9212
    @adrianburn9212 4 года назад

    Itching to get the next video!

  • @gck82s
    @gck82s 4 года назад

    You should get a Dateline jet boat now that would be good cheap fun.

  • @vaughnsigal4560
    @vaughnsigal4560 4 года назад

    Watching this from a 2 year drought plagued Australia, while bushfires are burning throughout the East Coast is painful.
    Can we have some of your rain?

  • @DUNAIRD15
    @DUNAIRD15 4 года назад

    Used to think it was wet in Co Antrim !! This is as bad .. And the one about the cops not telling you who wrecked your wall and gate takes the biscuit !!!!

  • @tribeofjosepht.i.community9977
    @tribeofjosepht.i.community9977 4 года назад

    Make the reservoirs deeper and lined with rock for more water capacity.

  • @jonw9417
    @jonw9417 4 года назад +6

    I've seen the future Harry. Carp.

    • @wernerdanler2742
      @wernerdanler2742 4 года назад

      Yuk! Can send them to China. They'll eat anything.

  • @chrisdaniels3929
    @chrisdaniels3929 4 года назад +1

    For the new gate this might help but get proper legal advice for accurate information.
    Whoever is responsible to pay for it should get the police incident number to prove it was reported/ known about by the police within 5 days then claim to Motor Insurers Bureau through the untraced drivers agreement.
    If the police are being awkward complain formally and also report the driver under s154 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 for not giving their insurance info. This seems unlikely to get any police response but shows the MIB that everything that could be done was.
    It is unlikely the MIB would reject it due to being on private land. If they do the govt has to pay as the law is in breach of the EU directive requiring compulsory insurance to drive on private land.

  • @simes205
    @simes205 4 года назад

    Yes, perfect for post GP!

  • @mangomcpoo475
    @mangomcpoo475 4 года назад

    Meanwhile in Australia our place is going through the worst draught in living memory! The weather is all over the shop :/

  • @williamho5636
    @williamho5636 4 года назад +2

    Too much rain is not good for the soil. The rain has washed out the fertile particles

  • @davidnash8586
    @davidnash8586 4 года назад +1

    Dear Harry, I really enjoy both sets of your videos BUT as I get older and more exasperated with life WHAT was someone thinking of when they decided that the police couldn't, for reasons of privacy, reveal the identity of a driver who had crashed into a land owner's wall to the landowner or land renter ? I can't find anything on the internet that deals with that !

  • @timphoto83ec
    @timphoto83ec 4 года назад

    Wow we have the exact opposite out here is Australia. Not good at all.

  • @tonybooth4
    @tonybooth4 4 года назад +1

    meanwhile, in Australia, my neighbour's water tank is now dry

  • @moments007
    @moments007 4 года назад

    What a crazy privacy law.

  • @boriss.861
    @boriss.861 4 года назад +1

    Harry on a tangent can you review 66 LeMans separate fact from fiction as regards the cars etc.

  • @snoosebaum995
    @snoosebaum995 4 года назад

    new solar minima kicking in