Your comments about farms, staff and overall interest in agriculture are why I believe the likes of yourself, other youtube farmers, the brands like Grassmen and Farmflix are actually very important. You show people (and largely a younger audience) the realities of the job. What work is out there and show that careers in farming are possible. I’m 33, small farm at home and work for a contractor alongside a full time job. I notice there’s a huge amount of interest from younger ones (16-25) that’ve grown up in the digital era, who have an interest in farming can follow this culture online, which my lot couldn’t. Or certainly as easily. Now whether they have the workrate to stomach the hours, unpredictably and graft required is a different story, but I do believe you’re playing a more important role than most will realise.
At 37 year old and have worked on farms before at a very young age and family farms all over. After chasing jobs for years. Farm life seems like a great career of local opportunity arose. Love the channel 😁
Not waffle at all Crawford, it needs to be talked about on public platforms like this. And you provide an excellent insight into the importance of farming. My small village is surrounded by farmland, and I grew up with the kids of farmers, I was a groomsman for a farmer just last December! And now there are plans being banded around to remove multiple farms to build 5000 houses... Its a shame to pave over generations of farms, it needs to be kept alive!
When i was a kid the village i grew up in had about 6 small farms, one a diary farm and a couple with pigs,the rest were mainly arable.All now gone, houses built on the sites of the farms, the last farm finished last year due to the next generation not having in interest in it. Very sad isn't it. Keep up great videos Crawford.
We are very lucky to have a great bunch in with the hens and one young tractor lad who appreciates the cost of the kit and is very conscientious about it down side is he’s off to NZ for six months were my eldest daughter is already milking for a possible twelve months
The "farmer" job is different too. Whereas the main farmer was the land owner/tennant the main knowledge base, the support team of agronomists, maintenence teams to contactors has grown as a sector that want there. I remember as a boy being in the hay loft cutting seed potatoes into pieces. Then 2 of us sat behind tractor on a machine not dissimilar to your tulip planter. Then at potato harvest 3 on the harvester, picking stones/earth clods out before direct into bags. Some tipped out to grade for chip shops. All the land now built on, hospital, housing, educational development. Not farming.
I'm 60 and don't work in farming but grew up on farms as my dad was a farm servant. The work ethnic that was installed in guys like myself and others who grew up on farms appear to have been lost.
It’s nice to stop for tea in the field. It’s something that doesn’t really happen anymore as we end up eating on the move. 😔 the rain is getting a bit tedious these days we’ve had the last 2 days get a heavy showers mid afternoon 🤬just when we’re about to harvest.
Rural houses are too valuable in holiday rents or even private rents to house a farm worker. The old school boys are just hard too beat with their work ethics and reliability
@@camdig4385 I lost my farm tenancy a few years ago ,one problem I had was not really a problem but I could not get my main worker to take holiday time off ,admit I rarely went on holiday myself but he was supposed to take time off but rarely did
It's the same here in Sweden. Hard to find good employees that will stick around for a long time. It's like they want to try out most as possible. That's what I have noticed with dairy cows
When my father moved from Fife to Peebleshire in 1961 he employed 6 men plus himself with less than half the stock and crop than when I lost the tenancy in 2010 and I employed myself my son and one man but with contractors doing sheep shearing and silage
Yep over here in n ireland lots of small farms have disappeared simple economics and more recently a lack of interest from the younger generation more money and a easier life away from the farm
my grandparents used to farm small scale dairy but went bust and I'm struggling to get back into work as my current family no longer has any ties to farming and I don't know how to get back into farm work because I'm really eager watching these videos along with Olly blogs makes me more and more desperate to get stuck in. does anyone have any tips to get back into the agricultural scene.
It is become more like that in Canada, farms are being consolidated and rather than employ people, they spend $$$ on machinery so they don’t need anyone. Sandy and Mark only eplioy Carissa in the sheep side and she also works for a dairy farm that is switching to robots.
Careful, if gate lady gets too strong, she won't need to resort to squirting you with window cleaner to cause you pain! Is the photograph for the Crawford's Farm 2025 calendar? Betty and Baxter in Santa Hats for December, please!
👀🙄🐾👍Interesting lament young man you should try and find a copy of the BBC book The Silent Revaluation it looks a changes in U.K. agriculture from 1840s to the early 1990s
Grew up on my dads pig and poultry farm with my two brothers and five sisters,went to work on local farm after school six people worked on that farm 210 acres 100 cows 150 pigs great days. Went to local pub full of lads working on farms darts teams football teams,big community then but now all gone and pub shut 😢
do you think farmers are to blame with the lack of staff since most fruit farms in my local area picked cheap European labour over locals and now these people are starting to return to homelands because they've milked the UK dry we have a 20 year skill set missing ?
Not a case of cheap labour, still paying uk prices. Just the work ethic for those type jobs that the uk population (on the whole) lack…. You wont find enough uk folks to do the berries or the tattie roguing etc etc Lots of factors at play tho
@@CrawfordsFarm1 Back in late 90s and early 2000, it was the case that it was cheap labour, farm work was piece rate and locals got a higher rate so in part greed has played a factor in this, but its not only framing this happened in its the same in the oil at the moment, covid come and a lot of good guys was paid off then the companys wanted these guys back on shit deals now its a lot of europeans with no clue whats going on but they fill a seat on a chopper so that will do.
Ireland is no different to Scotland. Yes we have quite a lot of small farms but all that means is the younger generation coming through on farms are choosing different means of employment because they can’t see a sustainable future in farming.
I think we need to get a crowd funding page going to get that wiper blade,it's doing my head in 😂😂😂
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Your comments about farms, staff and overall interest in agriculture are why I believe the likes of yourself, other youtube farmers, the brands like Grassmen and Farmflix are actually very important.
You show people (and largely a younger audience) the realities of the job. What work is out there and show that careers in farming are possible.
I’m 33, small farm at home and work for a contractor alongside a full time job. I notice there’s a huge amount of interest from younger ones (16-25) that’ve grown up in the digital era, who have an interest in farming can follow this culture online, which my lot couldn’t. Or certainly as easily.
Now whether they have the workrate to stomach the hours, unpredictably and graft required is a different story, but I do believe you’re playing a more important role than most will realise.
At 37 year old and have worked on farms before at a very young age and family farms all over. After chasing jobs for years. Farm life seems like a great career of local opportunity arose. Love the channel 😁
Picnic to celebrate Tulip and Daffy BOTH being in lamb before you expected it. 🐑🐑🤰 😂
Nice to see the "boys" willingly sharing their grain.
Not waffle at all Crawford, it needs to be talked about on public platforms like this. And you provide an excellent insight into the importance of farming.
My small village is surrounded by farmland, and I grew up with the kids of farmers, I was a groomsman for a farmer just last December! And now there are plans being banded around to remove multiple farms to build 5000 houses... Its a shame to pave over generations of farms, it needs to be kept alive!
When i was a kid the village i grew up in had about 6 small farms, one a diary farm and a couple with pigs,the rest were mainly arable.All now gone, houses built on the sites of the farms, the last farm finished last year due to the next generation not having in interest in it. Very sad isn't it.
Keep up great videos Crawford.
Farmers are a dwindling commodity
@@CrawfordsFarm1 yes and people don't realise who much you guys are needed.
Gate lady is getting strong 💪🏼 watch out 😂
Twins!! Great news, Congrats….
Good video thanks
Harvest picnic for Crawford becoming a dad maybe? Got a great one with gate lady and she's done pretty well with you too 😂
We are very lucky to have a great bunch in with the hens and one young tractor lad who appreciates the cost of the kit and is very conscientious about it down side is he’s off to NZ for six months were my eldest daughter is already milking for a possible twelve months
Here in Indiana USA we haven’t had any rain the month of August and none in September and things are dry. Wish we had some of your rain
Another great video Crawford
Cheers
The "farmer" job is different too. Whereas the main farmer was the land owner/tennant the main knowledge base, the support team of agronomists, maintenence teams to contactors has grown as a sector that want there. I remember as a boy being in the hay loft cutting seed potatoes into pieces. Then 2 of us sat behind tractor on a machine not dissimilar to your tulip planter. Then at potato harvest 3 on the harvester, picking stones/earth clods out before direct into bags. Some tipped out to grade for chip shops.
All the land now built on, hospital, housing, educational development. Not farming.
Great video lots of food in the middle of harvest is a new one 👍👍
I'm 60 and don't work in farming but grew up on farms as my dad was a farm servant. The work ethnic that was installed in guys like myself and others who grew up on farms appear to have been lost.
Cool thanks 😊
Great video once again. Are you not going to put on a new fekin wiper blade on that tractor. We still haven't seen Mrs gate lady.
Hello from Ireland
Great video. When do we get to officially meet Gate Lady, Kev, Duncan and Jack?
I met Crawford and Gate Lady at the Royal Highland Show this year.😊
It’s nice to stop for tea in the field. It’s something that doesn’t really happen anymore as we end up eating on the move. 😔 the rain is getting a bit tedious these days we’ve had the last 2 days get a heavy showers mid afternoon 🤬just when we’re about to harvest.
Good video as always
You had a lot of twins this year 😮 Gate lady ?
I think he needs to buy Gatelady a pair of work boots x
As for people not wanting to do it, I think it is more nowadays that can't afford to give up full-time employment to go seasonal.
Rural houses are too valuable in holiday rents or even private rents to house a farm worker.
The old school boys are just hard too beat with their work ethics and reliability
@@camdig4385 I lost my farm tenancy a few years ago ,one problem I had was not really a problem but I could not get my main worker to take holiday time off ,admit I rarely went on holiday myself but he was supposed to take time off but rarely did
Great video bud ❤
It's the same here in Sweden. Hard to find good employees that will stick around for a long time. It's like they want to try out most as possible. That's what I have noticed with dairy cows
When my father moved from Fife to Peebleshire in 1961 he employed 6 men plus himself with less than half the stock and crop than when I lost the tenancy in 2010 and I employed myself my son and one man but with contractors doing sheep shearing and silage
Yep over here in n ireland lots of small farms have disappeared simple economics and more recently a lack of interest from the younger generation more money and a easier life away from the farm
Hope you got scotch eggs from the farm shop at your pick nick and some bandit stout😂
u got easy life now u got gatelady doing ur work
my grandparents used to farm small scale dairy but went bust and I'm struggling to get back into work as my current family no longer has any ties to farming and I don't know how to get back into farm work because I'm really eager watching these videos along with Olly blogs makes me more and more desperate to get stuck in. does anyone have any tips to get back into the agricultural scene.
It is become more like that in Canada, farms are being consolidated and rather than employ people, they spend $$$ on machinery so they don’t need anyone. Sandy and Mark only eplioy Carissa in the sheep side and she also works for a dairy farm that is switching to robots.
I farm in North Wales there’s not many small family cars anymore I think it’s sad really
Harvest Picnic Tea/ suppper photoshot for marketing. 😊
Oo ya bandit a calendar?
Careful, if gate lady gets too strong, she won't need to resort to squirting you with window cleaner to cause you pain! Is the photograph for the Crawford's Farm 2025 calendar? Betty and Baxter in Santa Hats for December, please!
Gatelady needs to make her own channel as Tom lamb wife's has done just saying 😉
👀🙄🐾👍Interesting lament young man you should try and find a copy of the BBC book The Silent Revaluation it looks a changes in U.K. agriculture from 1840s to the early 1990s
Just curious, do you always chop the straw on the wheat crops?? Straw making up to €30 a bale and more in Ireland at the moment???
Wheat straw not worth that here, also struggle for time to get that baled etc need to get winter crops in
Need to get Jack in some vids!
Will do
I am thinking you’ve struck a deal with Amazon prime like clarkson 🙂.
Grew up on my dads pig and poultry farm with my two brothers and five sisters,went to work on local farm after school six people worked on that farm 210 acres 100 cows 150 pigs great days. Went to local pub full of lads working on farms darts teams football teams,big community then but now all gone and pub shut 😢
do you think farmers are to blame with the lack of staff since most fruit farms in my local area picked cheap European labour over locals and now these people are starting to return to homelands because they've milked the UK dry we have a 20 year skill set missing ?
Not a case of cheap labour, still paying uk prices. Just the work ethic for those type jobs that the uk population (on the whole) lack…. You wont find enough uk folks to do the berries or the tattie roguing etc etc
Lots of factors at play tho
@@CrawfordsFarm1 Back in late 90s and early 2000, it was the case that it was cheap labour, farm work was piece rate and locals got a higher rate so in part greed has played a factor in this, but its not only framing this happened in its the same in the oil at the moment, covid come and a lot of good guys was paid off then the companys wanted these guys back on shit deals now its a lot of europeans with no clue whats going on but they fill a seat on a chopper so that will do.
Good waffle, have you been watching Andrew Ward 🤣🤣👍
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you have some selection of head wear,🧢
It's the same in the here in the United States.
On the last PX Farms video. He says he employes 32 people normally, and that goes up to 51 at harvest time. It'll be a fair wage bill
Yeh within haulage part, grain storage etc was just comparing the traditional farming aspect
Are you ever gonna put a new wiper blade on tractor😂
PX I think farms around 21000 acres & employs about 30!
30 in the whole business, im just talking about the traditional farming aspect
What did the 12 employees do when your dad was younger?
I will find out!
I think Gate lady deserves a pair o ferm boots 👢. Instead o trainers.
It’s a lot, not alot
Gatelady celebrating her divorce?.
USA is losing its farmers too. Its because there is so little money in USA farming.
The farms have got bigger and also machinery and they dont use own mechanic just ring thr dealer
Ireland is no different to Scotland. Yes we have quite a lot of small farms but all that means is the younger generation coming through on farms are choosing different means of employment because they can’t see a sustainable future in farming.
True, at least theres still some connection, but yes maybe just one generation behind where we are
The reason there are so few farmers in the UK is because there are so few farmers in politics.
Gate lady is in calf?
Are ya going to be a dad?
Wheres this come from 🤣 you’re the 2nd person to comment this today
@@CrawfordsFarm1 well it happens a lot with newlyweds!! What ever it is I am sure it is a good thing!
🤣 no not that i know of anyways
@CrawfordsFarm1 We don't know how much practice you had before.
Even in Ireland no young people go farming changing times as you say , sad really
Yep no fun