If I had a pound for every time you mention high sheds and high doors and their attributes ! You're right mind ! Deffinately on our wish list for any further developments. Fuel and metal will never go a miss towards good establishment. ' Well sown is half grown '.
Interesting info on the tyres when you think how much rubber is in contact with the ground and the work load tyres do it’s always surprising we don’t pay more attention - thanks for this.
Great update. I’ve always thought it odd that we think adaptability should be criticised. We don’t traditionally give politicians or business people… or farmers, evidently… the latitude to say ‘yes, I did say that but circumstances have changed and there’s a need to revise our thinking.’ I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen a politician interviewed, facing the criticism that ‘two years ago, you said…’ and they’ve tried to fudge an answer instead of pointing out that circumstances are now different and a revised approach is justified. As a business we’re always adapting and changing to new information or circumstances, it keeps us dynamic and ultimately successful. It’s a fool who spots an opportunity but doesn’t act or turns down the chance to do something better in favour of sticking doggedly with precedent. To bale or not to bale, that is the question… and it’s one over which you’re entitled to change your mind!
Morning Andrew its a shame about losing the farm next door after all the work you've put in 😮 but the dilemma is ending sfp when breakdown costs & profits there nothing left for the farm owner a it crazy situation 😮 no food produced 😢
Good update young man. Sorry to hear about you loosing some land. I’m sure you will pick up some more work and land soon enough. SFI is a very quick cash reset for farmers. I appreciate there are areas of wet unproductive land that lend itself to It, however I think being paid not to grow food is wrong. I think it will be the contract farmer’s nightmare over the next few years.
Hi those bale chaser's are pretty good at spread weeds they carry a ton of chaff etc on the front also make sure the inside of the wheels are blown out also,great pity you have to bale the straw again as James Peck is say next problem weed is ryegrass
Cracking update again Andrew. I’ll be honest I did think about you rape storage and baling straw but I know what it’s like so things change don’t they but some people like to pull you up on it 🙄 there is a farmer down here that’s had the same problem with SFI he rented a farm from the national trust and they took the whole farm away from him he wasn’t even allowed to keep a tractor in the yard think it was about 550 acres. So glad you’re able to get all the fields reset and hopefully you can recover the losses from this year. 😊
Morning Andrew, in relation to the weight scales, unless they are set up on perfectly level concrete, (and i do mean + or - nothing), they will not give an accurate reading. All 4 wheels should be on the same level ground when using scales, even if weighing individual axles. Great updates.
😂😂😂 That highlights perfectly why I started to do the quick videos as intros instead of talking them recently because I’d be able to look back at what we’d been doing that week where’s talking them, I finish the intro and then remember 5 mins later I’ve forgotten something!! Anyway, as long as it makes for a smile at the start!!!
Good video Andrew, use must do what you have to in regards to storage and baling its no good loosing profit in this times its all about making money. The land is coming down nicely, with a few rains you should have a nice seed bed when it come to drilling. Good luck with harvest hope all goes well.
Hi Andrew, and greetings from a new armchair farmer! After spending 35 years in an office, it is great to be able to vicariously take up arable farming 😊 After watching for the last six or seven months, it would be good to know, maybe on a rainy day, when there isn’t much going on, an overview of your farming operation? It would be good to know what, where, for who you farm, so I can stitch together all of names, locations and operations that you show on the videos together? Obviously if this isn’t feasible, I understand, and I would just continue to enjoy the videos as they are.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard perfect, thank you 🙏 noticed at the same time (2 years ago) there’s a black grass strategy video, interesting as you recently revisited this.
Good luck with the start of the combining. Fingers crossed for some reasonable weather! Although down here it really isn’t looking too special. I think it will be good to do a real in-depth look into SFI’s. I was shocked when you said just how much land is now out of production due to it. At a time of low food security it seems the wrong thing to do! But the policy to reduce food is all over Europe and the US, worrying times which ignite plenty of conspiracy theories. As I said, good luck and looking forward to mid week combining 🚜
I’ll do an in depth look at SFI in early Sept when Jim Egan is back of his month long camping hols! I’ll maybe get someone from the RPA to come on as well.
Great update Andrew, as far as storing OSR and baling straw, you are running a business and the farm has to be profitable. So, I am sure you are doing the right thing. Its easy Sat here with Rose tinted glasses on thinking how wonderful it must be to be a farmer, but you have a business to run. I wonder what the impact will be on having sustainable food production in this country with more farms going into SFI. I fully understand why farmers are doing it, you need to recover losses from not being able to grow crops. As far as the weather we have no control over it but In my mind we need to look at using seed dressings to successfully grow OSR. How level is the playing field when we import from Countries that do not have the same restrictions. As far as doing contract work, I am sure you will get some, you are a well set up professional outfit, all the best in that.
Don’t blame the farmer but this SFI HAS got out of control in my opinion. Was topping a neighbours ragwort field yesterday. Been on some wilding scheme for a few years, just grows thistles and ragwort that blow into my grass field next door😡😡. Not such a problem for the arable guys, but I don’t want to be spraying grass every year just because somebody is getting paid to grow weeds. I make me so mad, ragwort is the black grass of the livestock world
I don't know if it is the wet year that we've had which has caused it but ragwort is rife here in East Norfolk, where there's few livestock, majority arable and some horses.
Good morning Andrew another fantastic update I know you have tried the John Deere are you not going to try a Case as a comparison shame about losing the acarege to a SFI scheme can see we will be importing a lot of grain. Looking forward to the next update
Great update andrew solo doing a good job, them tyres look expensive!! Richard at dove farms will sell you a second hand baler on a good deal, is it not cheaper to hire one and be in control of the blowing down yourself to stop the weed seeds spreading.
First off, so pleased that you appear to be getting a decent spell of weather for the grain harvest, especially considering what an appalling impact the wet weather had during and after sowing. Second, never feel the need to apologise to your audience for changing "the plan". A plan, no matter how well considered at it's inception, that is adhered to when it doesn't progress as originally envisaged is at best, a forlorn hope and in all probability, a disaster in the making! There's no disgrace in changing the plan - especially when it's yours and your employees livelihoods that are on the line. Perhaps our Politicians and Agricultural Policymakers would do well to reflect on that too!
Andrew, as usual excellent information in the video. Shame about loss of all that land, will you still have contractual services to do or not? As for circumstantial changes, why should you have to apologise for having to change your mind, as problems change and different info becomes, available you have to do what YOU have to, to make what profit you can after the last couple of hard years. As to the bailing, good luck selecting what straw you get. Just look at the state of some of the OSR, diabolical to be honest, shame you have to start unloading before you can see what the stuff looks like! Good luck with the harvest, hope all goes well. Best wishes as always.
Morning Andrew, for your info, Callum was using a 'bead cheater' to inflate your new trailer tyres. Regarding the SFI, it is totally wrong that a WHOLE farm holding can go into the scheme- it should be capped at about 10%- like the old setaside scheme, if we're not careful we'll end up with a lot of obese wild birds!
Just a thought, maybe look at purchasing a good used baler to bale your own straw exclusively. That way, you get the straw income without the risks of importing weed seeds.
Another great video Wardy Sorry to hear you losing that farm such a shame this country is stopping food production Bailing straw you will be ploughing soon ! 😂
Didn’t anybody read the small print “All plans are subject to review and change at a moments notice depending on the circumstances at the time of review!” 😂😂😂
Winter23/spring24 is going to take time to recover from, hard desicion not to plant some of your fields Andrew. I think all that hard expensive work will pay off for you next year. Will the subsoiler legs on the solo interfere with the moles?
It was a tough decision but I might never know if it was the right one or not? The solo legs are working at 12” deep, the mole was 21” so they should be far enough apart.
Can see disappointment but more opportunities will come up, maybe time to go out of sugar beet with more capacity on combinable crops, it can have big impact on soils, drainage and other infrastructure and also extends busy working periods and pressures on you and staff for little extra rewards?
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard the beet price for next year isn't particularly inspiring - and higher risk than before. I'll reduce my contract a bit to fit fields rather than split another field as I would normally
That's a big blow that's a lot of acres to loose. . He must think it's worth doing . And if he thinks that there must be lots of farmers wanting to do the same thinng. Especially with the weather we have had in the last two years. No wonder farmer's have turned to your tube for extra income . 😊
With a tyre with wire showing, a blowout is the least of your problems, it is also illegal and can incur a hefty fine and points on the licence of both the driver and owner of the trailer if there is a problem while travelling on the highway. DVLA and police checks on agricultural vehicles are becoming more common.
Im still waiting for the application period to open for SFI,uplands seem to be at the bottom of the pile again,think the agroforestry will save my bacon ,otherwise we have a 60% cut and to get more you have to reduce stock numbers
Changes which you can't control must make it very hard to plan Andrew. I thought there were limits on the percentage of a farm which could be put into SFI or stewardship?
You can only put 25% into non food production, the other 75% can be in SFI for food production it might be a herbal ley that they rent out to a livestock farmer.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard 5% it could be a lot worse, could say a lot more but respect that your sharing real life farming and have a greater understanding of the whole picture than most viewers , farmers who post on tube Good luck.
Whole farm S F I not a good way forward be far better if a farmer got a realistic price for produce Understand the need to be very flexible and adaptable
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard we are on the Shropshire Herefordshire Welsh border and the suckler cows are in steep decline even here our local market in knighton used to have as many as 1200 store cattle and now 200 is a big sale, tb has been the death of suckler cows
Andrew im very curious about vf tyres on trailers ,do you think less pressure in the trailer tyres will make the trailer more likley to roll and snake perhaps behind the tractor on the road,i dont mean roll over tho😂
I don't understand what is the aim of SFI (Sustainable farm incentive?). Sounds like another bureaucratic nightmare to me. We have Carbon capture trees going in on good land around here, Just Pinus Radiata , a lot of farm land is being sold into the scheme. IKEA just paid 13 mill NZ for 2500 acres of East Coast hill country, no seep of beef operation would work at those prices, IKEA is just one foreign corporation destroying traditional farming in NZ. WE are going to see rural towns suffer along with meat works etc. Interesting times. The immediate problem is the last Govt put a lot of windmills in but now we have massive problems if the wind doesn't blow, ( Spot prices up to £ 750 a MWH) Malaysian Pulp mill down two weeks ago it's future uncertain, saw mill down last week Japanese owned, sometimes you wonder what is left for Kiwis to own.
Why is it such a big deal if someone, or even government changes their mind? at some point we all have to make decisions , if circumstances change then we have to adapt., the time to worry is if we carry on knowingly with a wrong decision.
Great update if all this land in the country is going to SFI will it cause a shortage of food and fuel inflation again it seems very short sighted by the government nothing worse than people at food banks glad I am a retired farmer ps playing golf at Woodall spa spa next week so passing by your farm good luck with the harvest Andrew
@philipsankey988 again, really difficult to work out because the 3 grain sections hold 4,000 tons, a fully insulated large workshop, drive in chem store, Weighbridge (in a pit) concreted the whole yard for £730k. It was one job so don’t know what the grain stores cost.
Another excellent vlog Wardy. It is so sad to see so much, potentially productive, arable land being taken out of production. I totally agree that some needs to be used for pollinating insects and to provide winter food for our birds but it seems to be an awful lot (1,000,000 ha). I know you all fight the dreaded Black Grass, and now Rye Grass is another potential monster, it must be soul destroying to see so much hard work undone. Out of interest, how much Wheat do we import from Ukraine and how would the figures compare if the aforementioned land was put back into grain production?
I think Andrew SFI is going to become your next bug bear along with black grass. It’s a shame all this good arable productive land is going into SFI did you say over 1 million hectares in the uk.
You'll have to update your presentation to the school kids on your next visit, "So can anyone tell me what this is? No its not used to make biscuits/ jammy dodgers or bread, it's seeds for birds to eat. That's right, the government will take half of your wages when/ if you get a job and then pay me/ farmers not to grow food for humans to eat but for wild birds. Kids reply with, is that why sparrows look like chickens now because they just binge feed all day and are now obese and us humans are starving, WTF?
Such a huge amount of land being deliberately unused for food is criminal ...think of how many this acreage would feed say in the third world ...a figure that should be set alongside the ''carbon victory'' for a highly questionable outcome in 2050 ??
If I had a pound for every time you mention high sheds and high doors and their attributes ! You're right mind !
Deffinately on our wish list for any further developments.
Fuel and metal will never go a miss towards good establishment.
' Well sown is half grown '.
That’s a great phrase! The amount of times I see a great shed ruined by a low door, I just like to remind you!!
Challenging times ahead, some difficult decisions to make, great update as usual.
Nothing wrong with changing your mind Andrew. Changing circumstances occur all the time, your ability to adapt will determine your success.
Interesting info on the tyres when you think how much rubber is in contact with the ground and the work load tyres do it’s always surprising we don’t pay more attention - thanks for this.
Great update. I’ve always thought it odd that we think adaptability should be criticised. We don’t traditionally give politicians or business people… or farmers, evidently… the latitude to say ‘yes, I did say that but circumstances have changed and there’s a need to revise our thinking.’ I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen a politician interviewed, facing the criticism that ‘two years ago, you said…’ and they’ve tried to fudge an answer instead of pointing out that circumstances are now different and a revised approach is justified. As a business we’re always adapting and changing to new information or circumstances, it keeps us dynamic and ultimately successful. It’s a fool who spots an opportunity but doesn’t act or turns down the chance to do something better in favour of sticking doggedly with precedent. To bale or not to bale, that is the question… and it’s one over which you’re entitled to change your mind!
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It makes sense to change your mind considering you have to adapt to the situation. It’s not mistakes it is sensible managment.
Great update Andrew, your in the real world, have a good and safe harvest.
Thank you
You're not going back on your word, you are simply adapting to the current situation, so don't appologise.
Simply making good business decisions based on changing circumstances.
Morning Andrew its a shame about losing the farm next door after all the work you've put in 😮 but the dilemma is ending sfp when breakdown costs & profits there nothing left for the farm owner a it crazy situation 😮 no food produced 😢
Good update young man.
Sorry to hear about you loosing some land. I’m sure you will pick up some more work and land soon enough.
SFI is a very quick cash reset for farmers. I appreciate there are areas of wet unproductive land that lend itself to It, however I think being paid not to grow food is wrong.
I think it will be the contract farmer’s nightmare over the next few years.
great update good luck with harvest andrew
Thank you.
Hope you get a good run at the harvest.
Hi those bale chaser's are pretty good at spread weeds they carry a ton of chaff etc on the front also make sure the inside of the wheels are blown out also,great pity you have to bale the straw again as James Peck is say next problem weed is ryegrass
Interesting video
Cracking update again Andrew. I’ll be honest I did think about you rape storage and baling straw but I know what it’s like so things change don’t they but some people like to pull you up on it 🙄 there is a farmer down here that’s had the same problem with SFI he rented a farm from the national trust and they took the whole farm away from him he wasn’t even allowed to keep a tractor in the yard think it was about 550 acres. So glad you’re able to get all the fields reset and hopefully you can recover the losses from this year. 😊
Great video Andrew, that's decent rubber under the trailer, this leaving good land idle is a joke.
Morning Andrew, in relation to the weight scales, unless they are set up on perfectly level concrete, (and i do mean + or - nothing), they will not give an accurate reading. All 4 wheels should be on the same level ground when using scales, even if weighing individual axles. Great updates.
I'm sure Andrew thinks he's Columbo - 'Just one more thing' Every update, makes me laugh everytime.
I thought exactly the same thing at the beginning of this episode, he does it almost every time.👌😂
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That highlights perfectly why I started to do the quick videos as intros instead of talking them recently because I’d be able to look back at what we’d been doing that week where’s talking them, I finish the intro and then remember 5 mins later I’ve forgotten something!! Anyway, as long as it makes for a smile at the start!!!
😂😂 Did you see the reply to Scott? Not sure when I reply to a comment from if the original poster sees it? If you know what I mean!!
Hi Andrew enjoy your videos somtimes you would be tempted to put the whole farm into SFI the way things are going
Great video Andrew it’s a shame about losing 450 acres of contract farming
Good video Andrew, use must do what you have to in regards to storage and baling its no good loosing profit in this times its all about making money. The land is coming down nicely, with a few rains you should have a nice seed bed when it come to drilling. Good luck with harvest hope all goes well.
Thanks Peter.
Ever thought of going into brick making Wardy ? there’s a housing boom atm !😁
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Hi Andrew, and greetings from a new armchair farmer! After spending 35 years in an office, it is great to be able to vicariously take up arable farming 😊 After watching for the last six or seven months, it would be good to know, maybe on a rainy day, when there isn’t much going on, an overview of your farming operation? It would be good to know what, where, for who you farm, so I can stitch together all of names, locations and operations that you show on the videos together? Obviously if this isn’t feasible, I understand, and I would just continue to enjoy the videos as they are.
Thanks for the message, look back at updates 64, 65 and 66, I introduced the Farm machinery and everything.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard perfect, thank you 🙏 noticed at the same time (2 years ago) there’s a black grass strategy video, interesting as you recently revisited this.
Good luck with the start of the combining. Fingers crossed for some reasonable weather! Although down here it really isn’t looking too special.
I think it will be good to do a real in-depth look into SFI’s. I was shocked when you said just how much land is now out of production due to it. At a time of low food security it seems the wrong thing to do! But the policy to reduce food is all over Europe and the US, worrying times which ignite plenty of conspiracy theories.
As I said, good luck and looking forward to mid week combining 🚜
I’ll do an in depth look at SFI in early Sept when Jim Egan is back of his month long camping hols! I’ll maybe get someone from the RPA to come on as well.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard excellent, definitely looking forward to that one, 👍
Great update Andrew, as far as storing OSR and baling straw, you are running a business and the farm has to be profitable. So, I am sure you are doing the right thing. Its easy Sat here with Rose tinted glasses on thinking how wonderful it must be to be a farmer, but you have a business to run.
I wonder what the impact will be on having sustainable food production in this country with more farms going into SFI. I fully understand why farmers are doing it, you need to recover losses from not being able to grow crops. As far as the weather we have no control over it but In my mind we need to look at using seed dressings to successfully grow OSR. How level is the playing field when we import from Countries that do not have the same restrictions.
As far as doing contract work, I am sure you will get some, you are a well set up professional outfit, all the best in that.
your spot on with your comments. It must have an impact on the amount of imports soon enough.
Fair enough simplify the system and if they are just down the road can understand. If you have a good dealer and back up you stick with them
Don’t blame the farmer but this SFI HAS got out of control in my opinion. Was topping a neighbours ragwort field yesterday. Been on some wilding scheme for a few years, just grows thistles and ragwort that blow into my grass field next door😡😡. Not such a problem for the arable guys, but I don’t want to be spraying grass every year just because somebody is getting paid to grow weeds. I make me so mad, ragwort is the black grass of the livestock world
I don't know if it is the wet year that we've had which has caused it but ragwort is rife here in East Norfolk, where there's few livestock, majority arable and some horses.
Don’t think Andrew was blaming the farmer he did say he had to make the decision that was right for his farm
Not only the arable guys it's everywhere roadsides wasteland railways a big culprit, etc etc,but yes will only get worse.
@@1ADP no I meant it's not a big deal for the arable guys as the normal weed treatments generally take care of it
@1ADP it is, everywhere.
Good morning Andrew another fantastic update I know you have tried the John Deere are you not going to try a Case as a comparison shame about losing the acarege to a SFI scheme can see we will be importing a lot of grain. Looking forward to the next update
You mean tractor?
Yes sorry I meant tractor
I like case tractors but the service from Farols is fantastic. And case uses Trimble gps which isn’t as good as green star.
Great update andrew solo doing a good job, them tyres look expensive!! Richard at dove farms will sell you a second hand baler on a good deal, is it not cheaper to hire one and be in control of the blowing down yourself to stop the weed seeds spreading.
You can see why we still use a solo!
i thought they had stop putting the hole farm in sfi
Not if you got an application in under the 2023 scheme.
First off, so pleased that you appear to be getting a decent spell of weather for the grain harvest, especially considering what an appalling impact the wet weather had during and after sowing. Second, never feel the need to apologise to your audience for changing "the plan". A plan, no matter how well considered at it's inception, that is adhered to when it doesn't progress as originally envisaged is at best, a forlorn hope and in all probability, a disaster in the making! There's no disgrace in changing the plan - especially when it's yours and your employees livelihoods that are on the line. Perhaps our Politicians and Agricultural Policymakers would do well to reflect on that too!
Thank you, I’ve had so many questions about what I said last year I thought I needed to say something.
Andrew, as usual excellent information in the video. Shame about loss of all that land, will you still have contractual services to do or not? As for circumstantial changes, why should you have to apologise for having to change your mind, as problems change and different info becomes, available you have to do what YOU have to, to make what profit you can after the last couple of hard years. As to the bailing, good luck selecting what straw you get. Just look at the state of some of the OSR, diabolical to be honest, shame you have to start unloading before you can see what the stuff looks like! Good luck with the harvest, hope all goes well. Best wishes as always.
Thanks Ian. We will still do the work on that farm, unless we lose that too.
Morning Andrew, for your info, Callum was using a 'bead cheater' to inflate your new trailer tyres. Regarding the SFI, it is totally wrong that a WHOLE farm holding can go into the scheme- it should be capped at about 10%- like the old setaside scheme, if we're not careful we'll end up with a lot of obese wild birds!
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Just a thought, maybe look at purchasing a good used baler to bale your own straw exclusively. That way, you get the straw income without the risks of importing weed seeds.
I’d have to hire a tractor and a man.
Another great video Wardy
Sorry to hear you losing that farm such a shame this country is stopping food production
Bailing straw you will be ploughing soon ! 😂
What????? Just had to go for a lay down……!!
wow tom works a lot of hours
Yes he does, he’s really dedicated.
Didn’t anybody read the small print
“All plans are subject to review and change at a moments notice depending on the circumstances at the time of review!” 😂😂😂
Sounds right with me!
Winter23/spring24 is going to take time to recover from, hard desicion not to plant some of your fields Andrew. I think all that hard expensive work will pay off for you next year. Will the subsoiler legs on the solo interfere with the moles?
It was a tough decision but I might never know if it was the right one or not? The solo legs are working at 12” deep, the mole was 21” so they should be far enough apart.
Can see disappointment but more opportunities will come up, maybe time to go out of sugar beet with more capacity on combinable crops, it can have big impact on soils, drainage and other infrastructure and also extends busy working periods and pressures on you and staff for little extra rewards?
Yes, you could be right.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Good luck with harvest
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard the beet price for next year isn't particularly inspiring - and higher risk than before. I'll reduce my contract a bit to fit fields rather than split another field as I would normally
Thank you.
@SpudSlingsby good point, I forgot to mention that. 👌👍
That's a big blow that's a lot of acres to loose. . He must think it's worth doing . And if he thinks that there must be lots of farmers wanting to do the same thinng. Especially with the weather we have had in the last two years.
No wonder farmer's have turned to your tube for extra income . 😊
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With a tyre with wire showing, a blowout is the least of your problems, it is also illegal and can incur a hefty fine and points on the licence of both the driver and owner of the trailer if there is a problem while travelling on the highway. DVLA and police checks on agricultural vehicles are becoming more common.
Im still waiting for the application period to open for SFI,uplands seem to be at the bottom of the pile again,think the agroforestry will save my bacon ,otherwise we have a 60% cut and to get more you have to reduce stock numbers
Case sounds well
It always has had a good sound, great tractor tbh.
Changes which you can't control must make it very hard to plan Andrew. I thought there were limits on the percentage of a farm which could be put into SFI or stewardship?
You can only put 25% into non food production, the other 75% can be in SFI for food production it might be a herbal ley that they rent out to a livestock farmer.
If you applied for the 2023 scheme you can put all your farm
In certain options.
Business is business. Don’t blame the guy for doing SFI as long as he gave good notice.
The risks of contracting.
I don’t think I’ve blamed him at all in the video.
On the clay soil fields what’s the organic content of the soil?
Interesting content and thanking the tyre fitter .
About 5%
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard 5% it could be a lot worse, could say a lot more but respect that your sharing real life farming and have a greater understanding of the whole picture than most viewers , farmers who post on tube Good luck.
20 years ago it was 3% and we’ve done all we can by using sewage sludge every 3 years and always incorporate the straw, until this year!
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Thank you for your reply
I reckon your trailer is heavy one side than other as Michael hasn’t painted under the number plate ! 😳😂😂😂🙈
😂😂😂😂😂 I hadn’t thought of that!!
Whole farm S F I not a good way forward be far better if a farmer got a realistic price for produce Understand the need to be very flexible and adaptable
On your wild bird food margins , seeing that it is in rows are you tempted to use a inter row cultivator for the weeds you not want ?
Could do but it would need a cultivator on 45cm rows, most are 50, and we are on with harvest now.
You could buy a second hand hesston or Massey 4x4 baler cheaper ones are around 10,000, a better one would be £25000, keep the baler on your own farm
I had wondered that but we probably won’t bale again for a few years.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard shame you can't do a straw for muck deal locally but guess not many cattle your side of the country
@richardmatthews3304 that’s the problem, few cattle boys round here
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard we are on the Shropshire Herefordshire Welsh border and the suckler cows are in steep decline even here our local market in knighton used to have as many as 1200 store cattle and now 200 is a big sale, tb has been the death of suckler cows
@richardmatthews3304 it’s terrible for cows. The Welsh
Would the kind sandy part of the field be capable of delivering the same yield of Wheat as the heavier ground?
Not in a dry year, no
50% return, I taught not too bad.?
I thought the SFI had a 25% maximum area? Or did they get it in before they came up with that rule (In the forever-changing rules of SFI).
They got in under the 2023 scheme rules
25mm of rain on an acre of ground around 110t
how your dog is still alive 😄
We are all aware of her but she does have a good sense or awareness. She lives being out with me in the fields as does Frankie.
Andrew im very curious about vf tyres on trailers ,do you think less pressure in the trailer tyres will make the trailer more likley to roll and snake perhaps behind the tractor on the road,i dont mean roll over tho😂
I would have thought that would have been taken into account. Watch out for when Gordon comes back in 3 weeks, I’ll ask him.
I don't understand what is the aim of SFI (Sustainable farm incentive?). Sounds like another bureaucratic nightmare to me. We have Carbon capture trees going in on good land around here, Just Pinus Radiata , a lot of farm land is being sold into the scheme. IKEA just paid 13 mill NZ for 2500 acres of East Coast hill country, no seep of beef operation would work at those prices, IKEA is just one foreign corporation destroying traditional farming in NZ. WE are going to see rural towns suffer along with meat works etc. Interesting times. The immediate problem is the last Govt put a lot of windmills in but now we have massive problems if the wind doesn't blow, ( Spot prices up to £ 750 a MWH) Malaysian Pulp mill down two weeks ago it's future uncertain, saw mill down last week Japanese owned, sometimes you wonder what is left for Kiwis to own.
I think they want to redress the wildlife and environment losses but where’s our food going to come from?
Why is it such a big deal if someone, or even government changes their mind? at some point we all have to make decisions , if circumstances change then we have to adapt., the time to worry is if we carry on knowingly with a wrong decision.
I know but some people can’t cope !!!
Great update if all this land in the country is going to SFI will it cause a shortage of food and fuel inflation again it seems very short sighted by the government nothing worse than people at food banks glad I am a retired farmer ps playing golf at Woodall spa spa next week so passing by your farm good luck with the harvest Andrew
Thank you, nice place is Woodhall.
What is the return on the capital cost of the shed from the net income?as regards the o.s.r storage
That’s not easy to calculate because the shed has 3 storage areas of grain, 2 for our own use, a workshop and drive in chem store!
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard would the shed have been around £100/t to put up at the time,so around 3-4%return
@philipsankey988 again, really difficult to work out because the 3 grain sections hold 4,000 tons, a fully insulated large workshop, drive in chem store, Weighbridge (in a pit) concreted the whole yard for £730k. It was one job so don’t know what the grain stores cost.
How close to PX farms are you?
I know James very well. His cousin Michael is married to my daughter!
Why don’t you hire a baler then you can blow it down as much as you want. With that many acres it must be worth it.
I’d have to hire a tractor and operator.
Another excellent vlog Wardy. It is so sad to see so much, potentially productive, arable land being taken out of production. I totally agree that some needs to be used for pollinating insects and to provide winter food for our birds but it seems to be an awful lot (1,000,000 ha). I know you all fight the dreaded Black Grass, and now Rye Grass is another potential monster, it must be soul destroying to see so much hard work undone. Out of interest, how much Wheat do we import from Ukraine and how would the figures compare if the aforementioned land was put back into grain production?
We usually import about 3m but that’s from everywhere, not sure what Ukraine is.
Not a thing wrong with changing your mind and trying something else
I think Andrew SFI is going to become your next bug bear along with black grass. It’s a shame all this good arable productive land is going into SFI did you say over 1 million hectares in the uk.
That’s what heard but I’m going to speak to someone at the RPA and get a true figure.
Did the tyre fitter take one rim off the trailer to fit the tyre Andrew?
We had 2 spare rims without tyres so we used those and put them on and the 2 we took off the trailer will do for spares, there not quite worn out.
You'll have to update your presentation to the school kids on your next visit, "So can anyone tell me what this is? No its not used to make biscuits/ jammy dodgers or bread, it's seeds for birds to eat. That's right, the government will take half of your wages when/ if you get a job and then pay me/ farmers not to grow food for humans to eat but for wild birds. Kids reply with, is that why sparrows look like chickens now because they just binge feed all day and are now obese and us humans are starving, WTF?
You’re right, I will! I have already mentioned it to them when I was last in the school
Such a huge amount of land being deliberately unused for food is criminal ...think of how many this acreage would feed say in the third world ...a figure that should be set alongside the ''carbon victory'' for a highly questionable outcome in 2050 ??
Buy a new baler, guaranteed no black grass!
😦£££££££
Ragwort always brings out the ignorance in some people !!