It’s nice to know that this wet weather is chewing up more farmers/farm managers than just me, it’s just seems a massive slog, be thankful that you haven’t got calabrese and cauliflower to harvest and then turn the fields around to drill afterwards, after last year it fills me with dread !
James, Having followed you on this media for some time, and also been a farmer many years ago, every time I see the weather forecast, I now think of you and the pressures now must now be under. I am retired from corporate industry, but once a farmer, always a weather watcher. Wishing you a 3 week window of high pressure!
Edward has really achieved a milestone in diversification to include the use of renewable energy and the regeneration of redundant buildings. Thanks for sharing this James; not a subject covered in its entirety really.
Thank you for taking us to Edward's Farm, We had a District Heating system in a Council new-build housing estate in Basingstoke, Hampshire in the early 1970s. It was Natural Gas fired, and again, the pipework was all underground. It failed eventually due to two reasons, firstly, the pipework was poorly insulated, and so Very costly to run. Secondly, when 'Right-to-Buy' came in, people buying had to have their own boilers put in as the heating costs had been averaged out and absorbed in the Rent of the houses. I could see it working now with modern super-insulated pipework and backup systems.
Great to see, I used to play rugby with Ed's brother-in-law and dropped into see them & got shown a huge Quadtrac in one of those barns. Impressive outfit and first-class video.
Absolutely fantastic channel James and team. The extra effort you guys and the other farming youtubers go to to bring this content is not lost on your viewers. Thanks for all the work and passion.
Hi James, love how you tell it like it is, don't sugarcoat. Also love the special and think you could intersperse some.more of those in between the day to say stuff.
What a great video. Met Ed a few times during harvest 99 when I was at Tebbits just down the road from them. Remember they had an odd looking drill - possibly home made. Such a lovely family - remember Tom being a really nice chap
Interesting update, local farm to us has done the same thing, rented land out and turned farm buildings into a wedding venue, built a large lake and do the ceremony on a boat. Great video
Diversifying to carry on producing food. How many industries are doing the same to carry on producing. Tesco’s aren’t holding car boot sales to carry on keeping the shops open. BMW don’t have to rent half of the car park to keep going. What I’ve just seen is an amazing set up and achievement, and good luck to them in the future, but I still feel as a farmer we should be able to reap the reward of our hard work.
A very interesting & informative video James on how Edward has diversified his farm, and how the straw burning system works was well explained. I think if more people watched these video's they would understand farming a lot more, keep up doing the video's James . Hopefully you will get back to drilling next week.
Hi James. Long time viewer first time commentator. The general problem with Country file et al. Is that the producers are not from a farming background and have no intrest in real farming affairs. The viewing figures that farming youtube chanells like your self, tom pemberton, wardy and so on are getting show that there is a market for a proper farming affairs programme on TV but the BBC and their compeditors don't know how to make it and have no intention of hiring someone who might know how in case the show is too much of a success. Anyway continue the good work. Currently waiting for a late sown crop of beans to ripen so they might pass through a combine without blocking the top sieve.😢
Great to see that if theres nothing to do u let the lads stay at home and have time with there familys as when u busy they hardly see them this is a nice touch and more farms should do this because its hard being away from kids and wives/girlfriends and unfortunately some bosses dont c this when they can just pop home and c them. Ive left farming now but had years of leaving the house when everyone was still asleep and getting home when everyone was asleep again 😂😂 joking aside its tuff and I think its great that u do what u do. Hope it soon days up for you.
This is fantastic podcasting, I follow a few. But this particular podcast is incredible . Ye guys are getting to the production finesse of big companies. Great viewing 👍👍👍
Thanx you James for another interesting video, it was nice to see how someone like Edward have changed their way of thinking and carried out his diversification. The weather we cant change and we are waiting to get out on the land again in Kent
If a few of you got together and set up your own channel what a winner that would be. Enjoyed the vlog with your neighbour full marks for innovation and effort. Thank you .
Agree with your feeling on Country file. Very interesting look at Edwards straw burning system to heat the complex. I wonder what the cost per /KW/h is?
Fabulous vlog , loving all this diversity. I would just like to now if land was not farmed would it be over run with black grass. Perhaps that’s why old farming techniques used the fallow system. Perhaps if more land was utilised for growing crops for human consumption we could go back to a fallowing system.
Very interesting video, diversification is such a big part of farming today and Ed Banks’ set up is years ahead of anything I’ve seen, and the potential for him developing his bale burner system for the local community is huge. Hope the weather dries up and you get the drilling done asap and I know the waiting around is a nightmare. Looking forward to buying a PX Farm calendar for Christmas as well as a cousin Michael t-shirt!!
Great video James and Edward and a interesting discussion just a thought, has Edward thought about putting a barn up to put the straw in and then put solar panels, on it which would mean no more wet bails and free electricity, from solar and hopefully the weather picks up enough to get the fields finished 👍👍
Hi James as always a very good video you are quite correct about country file does nothing for British farming , your videos , Andrew Wards and Jeremy Clarkson programs are telling people what real life farming is about . What about the three of you getting together and making a T V program and calling it TOP FARMERS. and l will definitely have a 2025 PX calendar .
What a great look into farming in the UK from a absolute bloody character! Thanks for another cracking episode. I would love to RTK Northland here in NZ ax it's a jumbled mess up here!
Here in North Hampshire we have over 200mm (8+inches!!!) on the rain gauge for Sep!! '000's of acres around here not harvested and little or no planting done
Great video James. Definitely feeling your frustration with the weather. One of farming's nightmares !!! I would buy a PX calendar. Definitely a very interesting set up Edward has, thanks for showing us. Fingers crossed for some dry weather.😊
Ronnie, keep your chin up! It could be worse. If this rain came in October then it could have flooded drilled fields. It could have stopped pre-ems going on. As we have had the rain in September, there is more daylight and still heat in the sun/soil to evaporate moisture. Also, and this is a good plus point, it will get more black grass growing which can be spray off 🙂.
Hi James, years ago I use to have a little transport business. In the village was a big estate owned by the Danish bacon family. I did do a little job for them and they did have a straw heating system on the estate.
Yes James huge worry about the weather farming on the scale of PX Farms there is high pressure coming in mid week so hopefully you can crack on with the drilling.
I know what you’re feeling , when we went from September 15th drilling dates to a month later to start , it always seemed to be on a knife edge , from then on I seemed to be always drilling the 2700 acres at night , not fun when it’s wet too , hope it soon changes james
James, you ought to get yourself and Cousin Michaek ( aka Matt Le Blanc) a pair of these watches or even rings that tracks your steps and calories etc. Not only that they do heart rate, so you could see on the graph your exact level of frustration when it's raining, or the wheels come off the unimog!
Hi again - in you last post you mentioned subsides. Now having left the CAP, which was criticized for favoring, rightly or wrongly the larger land owners. My question is - under the present UK system, has this move had any advantages or disadvantages to both big and smaller farmers?
Great content James, Edwards heating system is genius 👌 wouldn't that system work for your farm?Hopefully the weather will break soon, we have a few fields under 2 feet of water that will take weeks to drain but luckily they have not been drilled.
Really enjoyed that diversification video. Weather is scary again. I agree with you - the idea of paying farmers not to farm is madness. For small farms it may help but the concept is wrong. Farmers need to produce food - that's the whole idea. It isn't as if we grain mountains or milk lakes in Europe. One war or the threat of it would paralyse our imports. Time for a cheery cup of tea 😀
Great update James, really interesting to see diversification. However, as you said, we need to get back to producing home grown food that is affordable and profitable to farmers. Less Red tape and more common sense. Thanks James, looking forward to the next video.🤓
Really enjoy watching your videos, have recently just discovered your channel. But I have 1 question, what are all the prize cards from in your office did you have animals on farm once ?
Great show this week (As always) The straw burner, did you notice much smoke coming out the chimney, our next door neighbours have the same set up, but it pumps loads of blue hazy smoke over our caravan site, not to happy, just wondered if you noticed it??
Great video again. I can't understand on a hot water system like that why owners don't incorporate an insulated hot water storage vessel that is heated by banks of electric elements fed by solar electric. If there is excess solar power then heat the water which backs off the straw burning demand instead of exporting the electric for a pittance. Far cheaper than electric batteries. The likes of a 40,000 litre road tanker, insulated with immersion elements that heat the water when the sun is shining, a large hot water capacity bottle. Plumbed in with diverter valves, temp probes, controller etc. Same sort of set up that is being used to control your grain cooling. 20 years ago on a North Sea oil rig a Norwegian engineer was telling me how he had a 5000 litre hot water store in his basement hooked up to his wood burner that would burn one day a week and provide all of the hot water required for the week.
We run a large team like yourself and are interested how your wet days work when they guys are off. Are they taking holidays or are they off unpaid? Or free days off and salaried?
Made some mess spraying off yesterday, but no days forecast without a gale for a week, so I will have some ground to drill if the rain stops. Feel your pain.
James what are your thoughts on leaving the common market is farming in a better place for it? My lamb prices remain strong since, I really hope the weather plays ball that horror word muddling crops in has depressing thoughts not only drilling black grass slugs, good luck and thank you for explaining farming
Chin up Ronnie! Dry week coming up. Although take most of that to dry up! Im pissed off and farm a fraction of what you do! I can see drilling in the frost again thhs year! 🙄🥶
James this week up till 5 mins ago we had 225mm of rainfall I'm just outside Bicester oxon. Yet again bracing ourselves for another wet night got weather warning. We have have a few business on the farm renting units..I've found out my agronomist went around with cousin Michael. I grow seed crops for Agri. Winter wheat and spring barley.. when do you think you go seeding again. Kind regards Adam..
i actually remember having to pull in ed,s farm yrs ago after a bag of fertiliser decided to over on a trailer and start leaking all over the road joys of towing tipper trailer on a telehandler
I would avoid Townie file like the plague, I gave up watching years ago too, for the sake of my Blood pressure and safety of my TV..... in case i threw something at it 😅😅😅
you are obviously a very good farmer ,but why put your self through all the stress of running an enormous business when you could claim all the mid tear money and sfi and BNG and make far more money . for doing very little . the price of grain compared with input costs and machinery is terrible. and is only getting worse . i am impressed with your determination to feed the the uk , but i dont think they care who feeds them .!!!
Jeremy Clarkson and people like your self do much more for farmers than country file will ever do
Unfortunately country file stopped being a farming program years ago
I greatly enjoy the sense of humor James uses along with his knowledge in these conversations 😊
P.X is short for Par eXcellent , top class in every way and Edward in in the same class. Brilliant , Brilliant Brilliant 👏
Hi James & Edward Thanks for the look round and the history of Edwards farm Thanks again
It’s nice to know that this wet weather is chewing up more farmers/farm managers than just me, it’s just seems a massive slog, be thankful that you haven’t got calabrese and cauliflower to harvest and then turn the fields around to drill afterwards, after last year it fills me with dread !
James, Having followed you on this media for some time, and also been a farmer many years ago, every time I see the weather forecast, I now think of you and the pressures now must now be under. I am retired from corporate industry, but once a farmer, always a weather watcher. Wishing you a 3 week window of high pressure!
Edward has really achieved a milestone in diversification to include the use of renewable energy and the regeneration of redundant buildings. Thanks for sharing this James; not a subject covered in its entirety really.
Thank you for taking us to Edward's Farm, We had a District Heating system in a Council new-build housing estate in Basingstoke, Hampshire in the early 1970s. It was Natural Gas fired, and again, the pipework was all underground. It failed eventually due to two reasons, firstly, the pipework was poorly insulated, and so Very costly to run. Secondly, when 'Right-to-Buy' came in, people buying had to have their own boilers put in as the heating costs had been averaged out and absorbed in the Rent of the houses. I could see it working now with modern super-insulated pipework and backup systems.
Great to see, I used to play rugby with Ed's brother-in-law and dropped into see them & got shown a huge Quadtrac in one of those barns. Impressive outfit and first-class video.
Absolutely fantastic channel James and team. The extra effort you guys and the other farming youtubers go to to bring this content is not lost on your viewers. Thanks for all the work and passion.
Hi James, love how you tell it like it is, don't sugarcoat. Also love the special and think you could intersperse some.more of those in between the day to say stuff.
What a great video. Met Ed a few times during harvest 99 when I was at Tebbits just down the road from them. Remember they had an odd looking drill - possibly home made.
Such a lovely family - remember Tom being a really nice chap
Interesting update, local farm to us has done the same thing, rented land out and turned farm buildings into a wedding venue, built a large lake and do the ceremony on a boat. Great video
What a brilliant video ! PXTV is my favourite channel on this platform, demonstrating the never ending ingenuity of the farming community. Thank you !
Diversifying to carry on producing food. How many industries are doing the same to carry on producing. Tesco’s aren’t holding car boot sales to carry on keeping the shops open. BMW don’t have to rent half of the car park to keep going. What I’ve just seen is an amazing set up and achievement, and good luck to them in the future, but I still feel as a farmer we should be able to reap the reward of our hard work.
Thanks James for another great update, fingers crossed this weather improves
A very interesting & informative video James on how Edward has diversified his farm, and how the straw burning system works was well explained. I think if more people watched these video's they would understand farming a lot more, keep up doing the video's James . Hopefully you will get back to drilling next week.
James you always make great interesting videos and the knowledge you have is second to none.
Thanks James absolutely love your videos always look forward to the next one
Hi James. Long time viewer first time commentator. The general problem with Country file et al. Is that the producers are not from a farming background and have no intrest in real farming affairs. The viewing figures that farming youtube chanells like your self, tom pemberton, wardy and so on are getting show that there is a market for a proper farming affairs programme on TV but the BBC and their compeditors don't know how to make it and have no intention of hiring someone who might know how in case the show is too much of a success. Anyway continue the good work. Currently waiting for a late sown crop of beans to ripen so they might pass through a combine without blocking the top sieve.😢
Fascinating update! Loved the wedding venue embracing the farms history brilliant idea..
would you consider a open day?
Keep up the good work
fantastic job James you are surely a great ambassador for agriculture
Edwood Banks would be great on stage. Such charisma!
Great to see that if theres nothing to do u let the lads stay at home and have time with there familys as when u busy they hardly see them this is a nice touch and more farms should do this because its hard being away from kids and wives/girlfriends and unfortunately some bosses dont c this when they can just pop home and c them. Ive left farming now but had years of leaving the house when everyone was still asleep and getting home when everyone was asleep again 😂😂 joking aside its tuff and I think its great that u do what u do. Hope it soon days up for you.
This is fantastic podcasting, I follow a few. But this particular podcast is incredible . Ye guys are getting to the production finesse of big companies.
Great viewing 👍👍👍
Thanx you James for another interesting video, it was nice to see how someone like Edward have changed their way of thinking and carried out his diversification.
The weather we cant change and we are waiting to get out on the land again in Kent
If a few of you got together and set up your own channel what a winner that would be. Enjoyed the vlog with your neighbour full marks for innovation and effort. Thank you .
Agree with your feeling on Country file. Very interesting look at Edwards straw burning system to heat the complex. I wonder what the cost per /KW/h is?
Fabulous vlog , loving all this diversity. I would just like to now if land was not farmed would it be over run with black grass. Perhaps that’s why old farming techniques used the fallow system. Perhaps if more land was utilised for growing crops for human consumption we could go back to a fallowing system.
Thank you James very interesting , let’s hope this awful weather dries up for everyone.
As always good content well done and thanks to you and your team
Great update. Really interesting
Well said James and another great video ❤
Very interesting video, diversification is such a big part of farming today and Ed Banks’ set up is years ahead of anything I’ve seen, and the potential for him developing his bale burner system for the local community is huge. Hope the weather dries up and you get the drilling done asap and I know the waiting around is a nightmare. Looking forward to buying a PX Farm calendar for Christmas as well as a cousin Michael t-shirt!!
Top man James, another very interesting podcast, many thanks.
Great video James and Edward and a interesting discussion just a thought, has Edward thought about putting a barn up to put the straw in and then put solar panels, on it which would mean no more wet bails and free electricity, from solar and hopefully the weather picks up enough to get the fields finished 👍👍
Another great video, well done to you and your team .
Thank you for this video James extremely interesting and a nice change thank you very much
Well done, always learning.
You are Doing amazing job for farming.
The cogs are working overtime in this one James.
Hi James as always a very good video you are quite correct about country file does nothing for British farming , your videos , Andrew Wards and Jeremy Clarkson programs are telling people what real life farming is about . What about the three of you getting together and making a T V program and calling it TOP FARMERS. and l will definitely have a 2025 PX calendar .
Also Harry Metcalf.
What a great look into farming in the UK from a absolute bloody character!
Thanks for another cracking episode. I would love to RTK Northland here in NZ ax it's a jumbled mess up here!
Here in North Hampshire we have over 200mm (8+inches!!!) on the rain gauge for Sep!! '000's of acres around here not harvested and little or no planting done
Great video James. Definitely feeling your frustration with the weather. One of farming's nightmares !!! I would buy a PX calendar. Definitely a very interesting set up Edward has, thanks for showing us. Fingers crossed for some dry weather.😊
Forget Countryfile, it's The Real Countryfile is the one to watch on RUclips.
Another fantastic, informative video, another vote for the need to use hay caps on the stack! Keep the info coming please!
Ronnie, keep your chin up! It could be worse. If this rain came in October then it could have flooded drilled fields. It could have stopped pre-ems going on. As we have had the rain in September, there is more daylight and still heat in the sun/soil to evaporate moisture. Also, and this is a good plus point, it will get more black grass growing which can be spray off 🙂.
Great video 🙂
great video james very intresting edward is an amazing person
Hi James, years ago I use to have a little transport business. In the village was a big estate owned by the Danish bacon family. I did do a little job for them and they did have a straw heating system on the estate.
Great video James 👍👍
PX FARMS VERY PROFESSIONAL FARMER'S. 🤙 🦊
A brilliant video, very interesting
Interesting video great to see his diversification
A suggestion for the bales would be "Hay Caps"
Yes James huge worry about the weather farming on the scale of PX Farms there is high pressure coming in mid week so hopefully you can crack on with the drilling.
Very interesting video again James. This is fast becoming my favourite Channel. Surely it cant be as bad as last year again.
Could you do a video showing your non-farming ventures, please? I'm sure others would be interested in the subject. Thanks for the video, as ever.
I know what you’re feeling , when we went from September 15th drilling dates to a month later to start , it always seemed to be on a knife edge , from then on I seemed to be always drilling the 2700 acres at night , not fun when it’s wet too , hope it soon changes james
A very interesting video.
James, you ought to get yourself and Cousin Michaek ( aka Matt Le Blanc) a pair of these watches or even rings that tracks your steps and calories etc.
Not only that they do heart rate, so you could see on the graph your exact level of frustration when it's raining, or the wheels come off the unimog!
Ni är roliga, trots motgångar. Stå på Er! ❤
How is that new wheel barrow, has it been sign written. Would be nice to have an update on its performance.
Hi again - in you last post you mentioned subsides. Now having left the CAP, which was criticized for favoring, rightly or wrongly the larger land owners. My question is - under the present UK system, has this move had any advantages or disadvantages to both big and smaller farmers?
I may have missed it, but how is Freddy. The last time I heard you mention him, he had just got out of hospital.
Great video James (Ronnie)
So much agree with the need to back to core purpose of using our land to feed the population
Brilliant video james
Great content James, Edwards heating system is genius 👌 wouldn't that system work for your farm?Hopefully the weather will break soon, we have a few fields under 2 feet of water that will take weeks to drain but luckily they have not been drilled.
Really enjoyed that diversification video. Weather is scary again. I agree with you - the idea of paying farmers not to farm is madness. For small farms it may help but the concept is wrong. Farmers need to produce food - that's the whole idea. It isn't as if we grain mountains or milk lakes in Europe. One war or the threat of it would paralyse our imports. Time for a cheery cup of tea 😀
Great video Thanks
Its just a good watch your video thanks
The PX Unimog still seems to be running. I saw it heading north up the A1 today in torrential rain....
Thanks for that
Great update James, really interesting to see diversification. However, as you said, we need to get back to producing home grown food that is affordable and profitable to farmers. Less Red tape and more common sense. Thanks James, looking forward to the next video.🤓
Really enjoy watching your videos, have recently just discovered your channel. But I have 1 question, what are all the prize cards from in your office did you have animals on farm once ?
Chin up James you'll get a break in the weather. 👍
Great show this week (As always) The straw burner, did you notice much smoke coming out the chimney, our next door neighbours have the same set up, but it pumps loads of blue hazy smoke over our caravan site, not to happy, just wondered if you noticed it??
Great video again. I can't understand on a hot water system like that why owners don't incorporate an insulated hot water storage vessel that is heated by banks of electric elements fed by solar electric. If there is excess solar power then heat the water which backs off the straw burning demand instead of exporting the electric for a pittance. Far cheaper than electric batteries. The likes of a 40,000 litre road tanker, insulated with immersion elements that heat the water when the sun is shining, a large hot water capacity bottle. Plumbed in with diverter valves, temp probes, controller etc. Same sort of set up that is being used to control your grain cooling.
20 years ago on a North Sea oil rig a Norwegian engineer was telling me how he had a 5000 litre hot water store in his basement hooked up to his wood burner that would burn one day a week and provide all of the hot water required for the week.
Toujours aussi intéressante ces videos👍
Cest la galère aussi ici en France pour semer avec cette météo
Hay caps that man needs hay caps use all the bales then!
Thought the same, Edward Banks obviously doesn't watch Ollyblogs who praises and promotes haycaps
Very interesting video
What will they burn when all the fields are full of SFI crops and there's no straw? Same goes for power stations
Old government paper work
Hay caps on those bales may help to reduce the waste and may extend the period before bales have to be dumped.
very interesting video :)
We run a large team like yourself and are interested how your wet days work when they guys are off. Are they taking holidays or are they off unpaid? Or free days off and salaried?
Made some mess spraying off yesterday, but no days forecast without a gale for a week, so I will have some ground to drill if the rain stops. Feel your pain.
Ohh well!!! 😂😂 that’s Bedford/cambs/Lincolnshire now supplied by px heat exchange systems!! We can see your brain ticking James! 😂😂
Love the videos. Just one thing though. The cameraman could do with panning around more and showing us what you are talking about
I agree 👍 😂
James what are your thoughts on leaving the common market is farming in a better place for it? My lamb prices remain strong since, I really hope the weather plays ball that horror word muddling crops in has depressing thoughts not only drilling black grass slugs, good luck and thank you for explaining farming
Chin up Ronnie! Dry week coming up. Although take most of that to dry up! Im pissed off and farm a fraction of what you do! I can see drilling in the frost again thhs year! 🙄🥶
James this week up till 5 mins ago we had 225mm of rainfall I'm just outside Bicester oxon. Yet again bracing ourselves for another wet night got weather warning. We have have a few business on the farm renting units..I've found out my agronomist went around with cousin Michael. I grow seed crops for Agri. Winter wheat and spring barley.. when do you think you go seeding again. Kind regards Adam..
Who’s your agronomist? I’m intrigued now!
@@MichaelDungworth Ed Holland is my agronomist..
i actually remember having to pull in ed,s farm yrs ago after a bag of fertiliser decided to over on a trailer and start leaking all over the road joys of towing tipper trailer on a telehandler
why not use straw caps to keep top bales dry
Hi like what you doing from Phill
I would avoid Townie file like the plague, I gave up watching years ago too, for the sake of my Blood pressure and safety of my TV..... in case i threw something at it 😅😅😅
Greetings from an armchair farmer, love the fact you farm for Edward, but he has to buy ‘his’ straw from you 🤔
Barker or Corbett?
you are obviously a very good farmer ,but why put your self through all the stress of running an enormous business when you could claim all the mid tear money and sfi and BNG and make far more money . for doing very little . the price of grain compared with input costs and machinery is terrible. and is only getting worse . i am impressed with your determination to feed the the uk , but i dont think they care who feeds them .!!!
Keeping people employed. Feeding the nation. Thrill of the chase maybe?