Farm update plus why the National Food Strategy isn't working & higher food prices are on the way
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- Опубликовано: 20 апр 2024
- Now spring is finally here, it's a busy time on the farm as the crops get going. Then I investigate the Government's 2021 National Food Strategy and explain why it won't work plus why higher food prices are coming later this year. www.nationalfoodstrategy.org/
The obesity problem isn't caused by meat, its caused by sugar but sugar is more profitable.
Well said! You can't store fat from protein, just too many calories and carbs. Oh and you can't get all essential amino acids from vegetables which is why we are omnivores 👍 Unlike those beautiful cows behind Harry!
Yes, i was obese and i only ate red meat once a week, but i ate too much sugar. I cut out sugar (not meat) and lost 4 stone.
And grain/starch is converted to sugars when you eat it. No obesity epidemic is going to be solved with grains
@@mattm6720Much easier to over-eat sugary food than grains. The obesity problem has came about as sugary processed food became more prevalent, in combination with a more sedentary lifestyle.
Yep but it causes other problems as we age. I've switched to vegan plus fish to get off my cholesterol med and more fiber for better colon health.
I'm a senior doctor and I'm fed up with the misinformation and deliberate obsfucation about meat, fat and obesity. Eating meat and animal fats does not and never has been implicated in obesity. the obesity epidemic can be clearly demonstrated to stem from the switch to cheap and plentiful fructose syrup in the late seventies, the liver processes fructose and converts it to fats (this makes evolutionary sense as fruit is followed by winter). There is nothing intrinsically healthy about a plant based diet. Vegan eggs for christ's sake!!!
*obfuscation
Thank you for your insightful comment. It’s interesting how many fallacies seem to exist around our modern diet, as time goes on it seems traditional food stuffs are actually the way forward, which should be good for UK farmers. Unfortunately, the UK government doesn’t see it that way but I suspect that will change over the next year or so as food gets scarce and prices rise dramatically. Interesting times..
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Keep those cows healthy Harry, we need a lot more meat, not less. 👍🏻😎🐃
What is more processed than plant based products?
Thank you! Some common sense & real information from someone who actually knows what they’re talking about!!
I have a number of friends in the profession at the same level & they despair at the utter paucity of common sense in the current medical profession at all levels; one of my friends (a Professor at a major south-of-the-Thames hospital group) is convinced that the switch to impersonal intake has damaged medicine for all time because entirely the wrong people are being brought into the profession. These new entrants make their way by either parroting convention or researching irrelevant arcane micro-subjects whilst enabling real disinformation to go unchallenged!
My oldest friend, a now-retired very experienced GP, regularly saw vegetarian/vegan patients whose health was seriously compromised by their diet, the ill effects of which were quickly rectified by resumption of eating meat. The promulgation of the pro-vegetable idea is bunkum just as is the demonisation of natural sugars & fats.
My grandfather ate fat meat and lived on my nan's "beef pudding" with the old suet-crust. He did manual work threshing on farms all his life, his favourite saying was, "We didn't get harvests in eating salad!" He lived til he was 93, his heart was fine but his joints worn out. We live in different times.
Thanks Harry, another informative film.
The gov is gaslighting us on many issues, keep educating the people with facts Harry.
We in the UK have been taken over by the ideology of the WEF & the UN & WHO. Both the labour and Conservatives are wedded to these ideas regardless of how nuts they are and completely the opposite of what they claim!
Yes. Remember folks, it's better you all starve than raise Co2, the plant life-giving gas, by 0.00000001%. OK?
The problem is the government allowing itself to be gaslight by many many vested interests.
People aren't fat because they're eating meat and dairy.
They're fat because they're eating processed foods, eating too many carbs and eating too often.
Look at any footage from the second half of the 20th Century and you'll see very few fat people.
Almost all of them eat meat and dairy.
So it's not meat and dairy.
You used to go to a supermarket and they were half the size with very little space allocated to crisps, chocolates, fizzy drinks and processed foods.
Look at what's changed and you'll see where the fat epidemic came from.
Excess sugars and seed oils are the cause of the vast majority of our health problems.
It didn't take long for someone to trot out that mantra did it? It is choice and moderate affluence that is allowing people to eat what they want. What people like you want is state control by the greedy elite.
Well said
Exactly this. Ultra processed foods are harder for body to break down. They lie to the public to peddle all the crap
And the ill health. We are now seeing the fruits of all this processed food in the people of a nation whose pre processed food generation are all but gone.
Any 5 year old could tell you you won't get food security if you pay farmers not to farm....
We are being governed by utter idiots.
Keep banging the drum Harry!!
they know exactly what they are doing unfortunately
We're not governed by idiots, we're governed by monsters.
@@Zundfolge im at the point where i think its just all planned
Looks like the NFU is infected with the woke mind virus... along with half of government.
@fredjones234 The UK has not had food security in over 100 years . This must be a long term plan
Meat is not the issue with regards to obesity, its all the processed food and sugar that is killing everyone slowly but surely. A high protein, whole food, organic, low carb diet is what we all need to strive for.
Bingo! Governments are run by idiots and easily roll over to the issues at hand rather than looking back and forward long term. Just like saturated fats causing heart disease, apparently. It could possibly be sugar and processed sugar, could it??!!
@JWCRUclips How are the current nutrition guidelines working out for the general population, hey?
Meat consumption has been falling, don't eat saturated fat, increase plants, 'wholegrains' and fibre. And yet, obesity T2D, heart disease, cancer etc is rising. Oh, but you can treat those with pills 🙄
There's something wrong when we feed our pets the same sort of diet and they start developing cancer. But hey, stick your head in the sand and wait to be shafted by your Dr when it all goes Pete Tong 🤡
They never blame millions of fast food shops or sugar, we really need to be 100 % supporting our country for meat and crop and seal the borders.
What does sealing the borders have to do with fast food or how much sugar you eat???
We starve if we seal our borders, been true since the 1920s
Because brexit has been such a success!
I can't believe how badly we are governed, this government and the last.
ALL of them!
And the next one no doubt.
According to Private Eye farmers always do better under Labour but they have always voted Conservative. Ever since Margaret Thatcher came to power Pareto's Theorem has been steadily creeping up on you but you didn't read The Guardian to be informed that without proper taxation more and more of the wealth will gradually accrue to fewer and fewer people. But you billionaire press readers thought you were being clever in voting Tory - well now you have found yourself on stoney ground.
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I was gonna say the same
They believe all aspects of the economy can be managed top-down, and that includes food production.
Remind you of anything? That's right, the Soviet Union
It’s stupid paying farmers not to grow crops leading to a shortage of food and price increases.
That argument doesn't hold water. Far too many people in the UK. Farmers in this country grow barely any of our calories and setting aside some land for nature will not affect our food security in the slightest.
its a bribe and eventually drive them out of biz and multi national farms driving prices lower crushing what is remaining of small farmers and consolidate market share
I think it also means we have to import food from far off lands from countries that don't care about Co2 creation
@@ewegg1271 It won’t affect our food security in the slightest? Largely true because we have burger all food security as it is. Government relies of the theory that we can just buy it and outbid poorer countries. Trouble is, if the brown sticky stuff really does hit the fan those countries that have produced surplus for export will simply close their borders to protect their own. India is a recent example banning rice exports 20:07
@@user-zk9hq4im5v I have yet to see or hear of any reasonable approach to providing food security for current UK population without imports. Short of breaking up these huge farms into smaller parcels that are farmed much more intensively (by people not machines) like India, it is impossible. Not going to feed this country on wheat I'm afraid
But I agree, I was making the point that we have no food security so protecting nature won't make a difference to food. But will likely improve human and ecological health
Government dictating endless rules and regulations on farming, and there is less food produced. Who would have guessed.
It's not just farming. Civil Servants don't dismantle regulations they add to them. All of my fellow architects are demoralised by endless and largely pointless legislation. It's no wonder everything in this country costs so much and there are large numbers of fifty-somethings leaving employment; we've all had enough.
Long-form insights into the reality of farming in the UK - priceless. This is a national service you’re providing Harry.
I’m horrified how disconnected the government is from the reality of growing food and maintaining a profitable farming industry
It's deliberate. They know exactly what they are doing.
All by design, they know very well indeed.
Here today , gone tomorrow but the WEF agenda rolls on.
You assume the govt are in control? Civil servants draw the plans.
@@BRMCaptChaos Why do so many people bother to be in the government then?
"Yes, Minister" isn't real, it's a comedy show.
It's by design
Honestly the gov. Couldn't plan their way out of a paper bag. Invasive ineptitude.
Don't vote for them then.
It’s not ineptitude, it’s full blown corruption. They’re doing the bidding of their masters who run global food production and are fighting for control. It’ll lead to a famine at some point, as long as they profit from it.
Hanlon's Razor is a lie. Government isn't inept, its evil.
They are pushing the big evil plan though, they all are in every country.
@@VanderlyndenJengold Problem is, no matter who we vote for, the government always gets in.
Sounds like a landgrab to me. Dictate what farmers can and cannot grow. Make it unprofitable, make farmers sell their land.
I’m a farmer whose land has been growing peas for 60-70 years. How land is now pea sick, it has high levels of fusarium which is now causing the peas to have footrot and die. We can’t grow them anymore, beans are unreliable like Harry says, they’ve lost us money two years in a row, but yes the next wheat crop is very good. We’ve run out of break crops. Our land can’t grow vegetables or root crops. Only good break ‘crop’ now is a ley for livestock, which of course they don’t want us to have.
On the topic of SFI and leys, we were very interested in herbal leys to cut and bale or graze with sheep or cattle. Turns out we can’t grow them and get paid because we have historical features in our fields that the deep rooting legumes would damage! And how do they know about the historical features? By their own admission they looked on google maps. That’s it.
I should also mention we can still grow these deep rooting legumes, they haven’t banned us from growing them, just getting paid for them. So how important are these “historical features”?
Here we are the lunatics running the asylum, keep up the good work Harry 🚜👍
Food security should be priority number one. If we produce more food within the uk we don’t import as much which reduces carbon footprint instantly.
The fact that Tesco made record profits when the prices sored tells you exactly who need to be under the watch of the government. But that means less in tax for them!
We need to support farmers 100%
I knew very little about farming, and wasn't overly interested in learning more, but Harrys Farm has changed all that- what a wonderful presenter narrator Harry is - I greatly enjoy this channel and my knowledge and understanding of the industry has increased substantially- all thanks to Harry
I’m a fellow farmer and I can confirm that we too are reducing our cropped area.
Basically we’re putting our least efficient & profitable land into wildlife friendly margins or fertility building fallows that help control weeds which have become resistant to weed killer and build soil health. It is also to improve biodiversity, help clean up water, reduce topsoil erosion, improve soil health, reduce air pollution and lower or sequester carbon emissions. These are all important considerations for the well being of citizens in this country.
Producing food from farming is important but there are issues with the way we do it which can’t be ignored and it is right that we are tackling them.
Where we do produce food we will be doing it more efficiently and with less harmful impacts.
Consumers can do their bit by being less wasteful, more educated about things like food miles, the impact of food processing on their health and generally understanding more about the issues with food production.
If consumers buy right, food will be produced right👍😎
Thankyou! more of this!
Hello Charles, your farm management strategies sound really interesting. I am a researcher in agriculture at the University of Liverpool, would you be interested in getting in touch to discuss how you view the changes to your enterprise? Thanks, Kieran.
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I ran a division of a major UK meat processor, we looked at producing meat analogues when Beyond Meat first came out as a potential threat to our business. The Development team produced some very good alternatives however we had a big issue firstly the max protein produced by a pea ( which is apparently the best source ) was 30% so the amount of suitable land for pea production required was to triple. The ingredients of many of the analogues was as long as your arm, who knew the health consequences so making health claims was dubious. The protein extrusion process itself could be deemed ultra-processed and finally it was obvious 5yrs ago the consumer was not buying into it. We decided not to proceed. The NFU has failed to highlight the benefits of upland meat production or if you want climate angle the "benefits" of intensive rearing. The strategy doc advisory panel is not balanced , the industry panel is retail /hospitality - where are the production companies - ABP/Karro/Arla/ 2SFG / Cranswick / Danish Crown / Dunbia /Kepak . This report is absolutely predictable and not in a good way - as another commentator has said - sugar is the driver of obesity ( and blood pressure probably ).
That is very interesting, than you for your input. There was meat alternative Quorn back in the 1990's it hasn't appealed to the public even though it has had decades to improve.
The more they try to make real meat more expensive the more desirable it will become, like a status symbol. The high price hasn't put off the Japanese for example. The weather and general conditions in Europe will ensure meat is viable for decades yet, only government legislation can interfere
Great comment. Thanks.
Ideological capture. Claiming that "meat mimicking products" are healthy alternatives to meat is insanity.
Keep the facts to yourself please, they’re counter brainwash.
The UK has never reduced its carbon production. But it has exported it to other parts of the world.
Having dumped manufacturing they now seem to want to do the same with food production.
And presumably everything else. Heck, they have been reducing expectations of child production for decades only to now start importing the means from abroad.
I get the impression they just want to hand over responsibility to distant country governance whilst claiming to save the planet.
In fact they are incapable of saving even this small part of the planet. They may, however, be capable of feathering their own nests as they fail.
Man has been eating meat for millenia...as it should be. Once people realise that eating proper food makes them healthy and eating synthetic food makes them sick, the market will kill companies who try to push synthetic crap on us. 👍🏻
I work for a higher end supermarket and it puzzles and frustrates me with the amount of fresh produce that comes from abroad. Turnips from France!! Asparagus from Mexico!! Apples from South Africa!! But then I look at things like celeriac, squash, and even swede, and wonder if a lot of people would even know that they are seasonal vegetables, let alone how to turn them into tasty meals. Is there a strategy to teach people how to use seasonal produce to make meals? Probably not because it would require a bit of joined-up thinking... 🤣🤣🤣
All our TV programmes teach us is how to make cake. 🙂
@@stevemawer848 "let them eat cake..." It will make them ill and will reward big pharmer very handsomely. This is why TV does it. They are paid to.
I don't know about strategy but there are a lot of facebook groups and chefs on youtube who teach to buy what is local and in season and to cook around what's available. I grow some and went to a farmers market once my little garden stopped producing near the end of the season and was sorely disappointed with the quality of food they were selling. My dad said he would be embarrassed to try to sell that and told me what was I expecting because if its truly locally grown the season is over and the veges are not at their peak. He said unless its either greenhouse grown if you want an out of season vege/fruit it is imported and heavily sprayed with chemicals to last longer.
Because the imports are their carbon, not yours. So you're saving the planet, somehow...
I buy directly from a vegetable farm supplying veg boxes to the local community. I expected to receive locally grown seasonal vegetables and expressed surprise when sweet potatoes were in the box. On questioning, the owner informed me that he would lose customers if only seasonal products were included because most people expect 'exotics and unseasonal' vegetables in their low carbon footprint local veg boxes.
Harry, you are so damn clever at pulling together all the bilge from all sides of an argument, and presenting the stark reality.
I have never been so worried for future generations and, no, I am not even considering the grey science and madness of "net zero", but simply feeding them.
We build on more and more agricultural land, we turn more and more of it over to mind-blowing "green schemes".....I absolutely bloody despair. Our once proud and world- leading farmers have been forced into becoming mere custodians of the land "for future generations" ( for what? More green schemes? ) or diversification away from what they do best....and we NEED!
I could weep. Thanks Harry for your candid approach. You should be on mainstream TV every day to drum some sodding sense into the Gov't and the people.
Please keep up the good work!
! Control the food, control the people !
Straight from the Kim Jong Un playbook.
The governance of this country is appalling. We must vote better.
I agree but who to vote for?
@@andrewmellon5072 That's even if you can rely upon the vote result. Manipulated postal votes, dead people voting, students voting from two locations.etc.
Voting doesn't work. We have only the illusion of democratic choice and influence, we are presented with alternative flavors of the same neoliberal Blairite globalism.
The reality is that powerful supranational global organisations influence governmental decisions, they play both sides and never lose. They are The Uniparty and like the casino they always win because everything is stacked in their favour.
The Three Slogans of The Uniparty:
SPEECH IS VIOLENCE
FREEDOM IS DANGER
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH
@@glendakirby5579 The UK isn't America!
@@andrewmellon5072we’ve traditionally stuck with the major parties as we’ve assumed they have the experience and knowledge to govern well. This isn’t true now. It’s time to give independents and the smaller parties a go.
We are in the grip of ideologues. Stalin & the soviet leadership in Moscow thought it knew what was best in 1932 & caused the Ukrainian Famine, commonly known as the Holodomor; millions died. Mao Ze Dung & the Chinese leadership thought it knew what was best in 1958 with the Great Leap Forward. Perhaps 20 to 40 million died as a result. The present 'Uni' Party are also ideologues & prefer theory & wishful thinking over cold hard facts. They intend to bankrupt & starve the population in order to prove how correct they are over Net Zero, Immigration & Diversity.
Love how you managed to get your immigration and diversify agenda in there.
@rikimarco1826: very well put, if I may say. We had Nellie the Effluent in charge of DEFRA for a while. Bloody useless she was. No, it's everyone for themselves these days.
Unfortunatley, most native Brits have never heard of the Kalergi Plan, so they have absolutely no idea what is happening to them....
They openly state the opinion that the planet can only support 1 billion people.
I get the impression that they're creating the infrastructure and supply chains for their target population, and will sit back to watch who survives.
it's a global thing going back centuries: annavonreitz.com/mysources.pdf
Remember the sugar shortage in the 70's, the US started to refine sugar from maize as there was a shortage of sugar cane.The sugar from maize was much cheaper so companies instantly made bigger profits. The maize sugar is fructose, when you eat foods with fructose it suppresses the chemical which signals your brain to stop eating. I wonder what could be causing the obesity crisis in the US and many other countries, nothing will be done because certain big companies make vast profits. ?
Greetings from Western Australia where, fortunately, we do not yet suffer from the same mad policies to take arable land out of production. Our farmers will benefit from the British government’s foolishness.
Thanks Harry, for your always sensible commentary.
My mates a farmer and he recommended your channel, it's been a real eye opener and so educational on the realities of farming. It's also highlighted the alarming truth that the reports and decision making around farming is often way off the mark in what's realistic and achievable ! Many thanks. ATB MMMD
Glad to see someone making sense, only problem, nobody will or can do anything.
They need to talk to the people on the ground on sat in their offices!
The mega shame is, it's not financially viable for farmers to not partake in these reductions in food security schemes.
People are used to a diet now. So what'll happen? We'll import more and more food from abroad where they don't have these schemes. To reduce our carbon impact (and the increased difficulties in importing food because of Brexit) we need to be eating more seasonally and what we produce in this country. Notice how up until the 1980s (and the fat fighting craze) obesity was much less of a problem now. Diets reflected what we produced in this country. But everything is now interlinked. Increase in families where both parents work full time means higher reliance on convenience food which is bad for you. Increased convivence food = lower quality and cheaper ingredients from abroad.
We could protest??????
@@normanpouchlike the pole tax yeh?
And what happened?
THEY CHANGED THE NAME AND IMPLEMENTED IT ANYWAY!!!!
WAKEY WAKEY
@@robaudi20v you take the French approach then. They backtrack on everything when the yellow vests come out.
the backlash on the Welsh speed limit legislation was so strong they are rolling it back.
@@robaudi20v EU farmers protested and got what they wanted. Why dont English farmers protest on mass if its so bad.
And yet we have Dr's who say we must eat meat. A study done in the UK over two decades has shown a 20% rise in stroke patients who are vegan. This quote is from National Library of Medicine "Red meat is a nutrient dense food providing important amounts of protein, essential amino acids, vitamins, and minerals that are the most common nutrient shortages in the world, including vitamin A, iron, and zinc."
If you are a vegan then you are either pumping yourself full of supplements to replace what you should have got naturally from eating meat. When I had surgery for cancer and lost a lot of blood and was on the verge of needing a blood transfusion, the Dr's told me for the next 4 months I need to eat liver 2X a week to help my body replace what it has lost. They said it would take a year for my body to be back to normal and to eat liver and rich red meat like bison etc to help the body.
Not once did they tell me to go vegan to help the body recover the blood loss.
We have eaten meat from day 1 of man. It is what our body needs to function and be healthy. These so called experts are messing with thousands of years of evolution and it isn't going to be pretty.
Yes lots of doctors and masses of people now on board with carnivore and similar diets. I eat lots of meat, game and fish and some poultry but I do eat some vegetables, and oatcakes to hold up the grass-fed butter and cheese. I've heard of a lot of vegan "influencers" giving up when they got too ill and some of them have gone paleo or even carnivore. You don't hear of many people transitioning the other way.
Harry your voice is an important one.
Activists and ideologues dominate the debate. Real farmers are too busy to fight it.
Need to watch this 3 times over. Try and get it better. Thanks Harry for your service to motoring and farming.
Governments may have this all figured out "on paper" but they seem to have forgotten to account for human behavior and political processes. People don't want to be forced to dramatically change their diets nor will they happily pay ever-increasing prices for the food they want to eat. They will revolt at the ballot box if not in the streets, even if they also believe we must limit greenhouse gases.
We dont need to limit green house gases at all because they are not green house gases. They are the gas of life though. In fact we need a 5x increase in CO2 from 420ppm to 2000ppm to allow life to thrive.
Thanks Harry, You demonstrate that our policy makers are not in touch with the reality of farming. If only there was a business incentive for these clowns to get it right.
It’s just sums up our Country, absolutely ridiculous. How about reducing the population size and becoming more self efficient. The obesity is not caused by meat, it’s down to processed food and people not exercising 🤷🏼♂️ Great video Harry, very informative 👍
Quality and sensible content, as always. Thank you, Harry, and team. Having just moved from a city to an agricultural area, this content is even more valuable to me. Does anyone know of an American equivalent to Harry's farm and the information given? I will continue watching, but as a yank, I hope someone here is also banging the drum that Harry is.
Thank you.
Been waiting for this one, after having gone back and binge watched all the previous episodes… Nice one Harry, cheers from NZ 🇳🇿
It's also worth noting the science around carbon sequestration for traditional pasture compared to reforestation is very shaky. Pasture may even absorb more.
As a farmer , Well done for showing the facts, We are sheep and beef and the truth needs telling
Yet more Net Zero lunacy. The unintended consequences will come thick and fast, while the cost of food in general will continue to rise. We should all be very worried about govt over-reach ....it will end in tears for all but the most well off.
100% agree. Net zero will make people very cold and hungry. The whole CO2 is bad myth is based on fake science....but because it's pushed by Governments and the MSM 24/7 people believe it. 😕
The consequences are not unintended...
@@richplanetdotnet The psychology behind the support for Net Zero is fascinating. Whilst there is little doubt that the original architects (many decades ago - Club of Rome, etc.) of the "CO2 is evil" narrative had a pretty clear agenda, most politicians, media and taxpayers who buy into the alarm have little clue what they are actually supporting. They have fallen into a mass psychosis and simply cannot get beyond the " I have to be part of the solution to save the planet/mankind/insert anything you fancy." Any critical thought or challenge is blocked at the front door...their own front door! Pretty sickening, TBH.
I use your Farm Updates to fill out what the farmers in my family in the USA are experiencing. In my youth, we all grew a lot of wheat and oats for cash crops. As decades passed, more and more acreage was planted in corn and soybeans (or soybeans and corn.) Due to acreage owned or controlled and to cash value of production, a family member was asked to accept an award for economic contributions to our county. One of the 'gee-whiz' factoids presented in the acceptance speech was that a single grain harvester with dual heads (soybeans and corn) cost just a bit less than ONE MILLION DOLLARS. Never mind the cost of farming tractors, sprayers, plows/cultivators, road-making and drainage equipment, and the like. Never mind the cost of crop insurance. Never mind the value of the know-how, agricultural, and managerial, that generations of family members bring to growing and maintaining this business. As to food security: I hate to admit it but we can feed more people from soy products (as does Japan) than from wheat and corn processed through livestock. I grew up with calves and piglets and baby chicks.
Thanks for the update, as usual you keep us informed of what is going on behind the scenes on our farms, when ever a government gets involved with an issue it turns from a problem to a nightmare of unforeseen consequences.
Very thought provoking presentation this week Harry! A lot to digest! In spite of the multitude of issues raised I hope it turns out to be a bumper year for you.
Look up carnivore interviews , people are healing doing it . Me too .
Low carb , very few veggies now , no gas or bloating going all away .
Same. We've been conned for years about so many dietary fads, especially the veggie cult. Makes you ill and fat. 🤓
100% agree, we need more meat in our diet not less. 👍🏻😎
It would help to make us healthier and more productive too if we ate more meat & animal products.
And that's exactly why they are doing the opposite. Ill people take more drugs, which is profitable. Vegans need lots of supplements and still end up looking as healthy as Michael Greger (look him up). People who are healthy are not profitable.
On the other side of the coin, who uses all the diesel and chemicals? Grain farmers or animal farmers?
Very interesting and frightening.
Thank you from the skill school.
Not a single farmer on the list of reviews, utterly incredible. It's almost like they don't want to hear the facts, thanks for sharing a good summary Harry.
Thanks for the update Harry 👍
Very informative thanks.
Nice to see the cattle expressing agreement with you Harry.
Very informative Harry, please keep us up to speed on these developments.
Your programme educates people, so absolutely great
The problem here is that the people making these decisions are not qualified to do so or if they are qualified, they are unable to see the big picture.
I work in the electrical industry and the government want people to run electric cars yet they've neglected the national grid. You couldn't make this stuff up.
The UK is a 3rd World Country
The govt seem to want to wash their hands of the grid because it is now private? Or is that not really the case?
I have said that all along, electric cars in towns but not suitable for everybody.
There are more than 8 billion people on this planet and they all need to be fed, kept warm or cool and to be able to get from A to B. This all comes at a cost. There's no way around it.
People driving electric cars seem to conveniently forget the fact that they have to keep plugging the things into the grid and the environmental cost of manufacturing them.
'Net Zero' is simply political speak for 'move the problem somewhere else' 🤷🏻♂️
@@sadken-gr7ve Fuck it then ,dont do anything
What with you and Wards Waffles, The future looks bleak for farming. We need to get more retired farmers to enter politics to kick the arseholes who won't listen to the common sense, that is required to get this country back on it's feet. Thanks for the update Harry, love to hear you talk, about anything really!
Just get Wardy and Harry, oh and Clarkson to run the Country 🤔😀
@@peterobey491leave Clarkson out of it please.
As an American, it's difficult to conceive of this well spoken gentleman as a farmer
Love your honesty and fact driven update, a pleasure to watch
Thank you Harry. I hope you send this to all our MP's. Perhaps it may open their eyes and ears to the real issues.
Great discussion - thanks. ALL plants are converted sugar in the body - just eat meat, eggs, fish and dairy - I haven't eaten any plants at all for over 2 years - lost 4 stone - no need for fibre either - feel great.
I occassionally point out to people that as far as your body is concerned - all carbohydrates (ie all plants) are converted to sugar within a few hours -your body doesn't care where they come from - so when you're considering ingredients on packets etc just imagine the word carbohydrates crossed out and replaced with sugar - it usually falls on deaf ears though.
Great video. Thank you for taking the time to discuss this topic. Keep up the good work.
Really enjoy listening to your thoughts and insights Harry, as ever it’s backed up with proper research. Really feel for uk farmers as they’ve got it coming from every angle at the moment. Thanks for the update, your wheats looking well considering!
Good video thanks verry worrying the lack of information on food security
Let’s say they have crop failures in the countries that supply us, Spain, Italy etc and they say piss off, we need food for our people. What then?
We cure our obesity problem at a stroke!
@@stevemawer848 ‘stroke’, 🤭.
Fantastic presentation as ever. Keep it up Harry.
Thanks Harry & Co for another great video, didn’t the government try this with the milk production a little while ago, another bad decision.
Great video Harry. You have clarified to me why as a suckler beef farmer there is nothing in the sfi that encourages production. Basically they don't want me to be productive as it all comes back to the co2 emissions/net zero. Unfortunately ive spent the last 5 years increasing productivity to try and build an efficient system that is not losing money and relying on subsidies. So where do i go from here? Carry on and hope the free market pays me a fair price for a decent system or enter into low input system, cutting my production by 75% but get a hand out from the government? Nationwide this means more land is needed to farm in a less productive way.
Why not start with the land classification that was done decades ago. Ringfence the best land into efficient arable farming and put marginal/poor land into environmental schemes/livestock farming. Best of both then.
Oh and introduce minimum standards to imports equal to ours to give us a level playing field. Like you said whats the point of the uk cutting emissions if you are just importing produce from countries with high emissions. Uk food prices will increase, (we are paying less than most from your chart) then scrap subsidies altogether so the consumer is paying at the till rather than out of their tax bill in subsidies.
Just my two pence worth.
Keep up the good work!
And also, you cant change a nations eating habits at the production level as over half of food is just imported. This is a completely different aspect that would require education of the populus to eat a more balanced diet but also price penalties for processed crap food which would be relevant at the point of purchase (supermarkets mainly).
Just look at a 1950s average diet and obesity levels. Good balanced diet and exercise is the key, which can include some decent uk beef!
Can you butcher and sell direct to customer or is there too much red tape? A lot of us are seeing the light, and want to buy well reared meat, but a lot of people are limited to supermarket junk as there’s not much else around them.
@formxshape yes that would be nice but to go from producer to producer + seller would involve a major undertaking for a small business. The practicalities would mean paying more time and money into each animal before profit was realised (hurting cashflow), but also farmers would have to then invest in storage/selling facilities etc which would need investment to set it all up. Then we would have to market the produce which is quite a different skill to rearing beef and many of us are just not that way!
Also, some farms like mine dont have good road access so that would be a planning issue if you wanted people to come in to buy. Mail order possibly but it is all very involved for a small farm business.
I would prefer a local system to feed into, sort of like a cooperative for your area taking food away from supermarket supply to offer people decent uk produce but then the marketing and promotion and some economies of scale could be offered by them, helping the producer to concentrate on producing top quality stuff! Cheers
@@josephhodsdon we need local co-ops, not the co-op supermarket that we currently do have….
@@formxshape Yes we have something like that here, the same family owns the meat packing plant and several farm shops and owns some of the animals, other farms feed through the same chain.
Please keep these videos coming Harry, as we certainly dont get the facts from any mainsteam media. If only a few MPs would watch this, instead government are building policy on that 5yr old report assuming it to be correct, even though its based on ridiculous assumptions....we will all have EVs charging from 100% renewable electric. Oh and we will halve our meat consumption too. Im not in the farming industry, but speak to a number of farmers ive known 20 years that let ,me metal detect around York. The weather hasnt been kind, but you can bet whichever government gets in this will base the havest shortfall on weather alone, and not policy.
Really interesting and apolitical. More please Harry.
Thank you Harry. I wouldn’t normally read a plan such as this, but you have been alerting us to future problems in the nations food strategy, so I WILL read this. Whilst doing so I’m not eating!
In every aspect of our world it has gone mad..! Where will it end? The rich poor divide will worsen and the diets will get worse not better. I understand the government wanting to improve the health of the nation but the nation has to want it too. All this action will do is drive prices up for the middle men and supermarkets. We need 10M people to go back to their own countries and take the pressure off farming, schools, the health service, dentists, roads, housing, benefits.......and so on. Sorry this is political but it is...! Vote Reform and let's get our country back to work.
Are u delusional, you understand the government wanting to improve the health of the people 😞😞. Where have u been the last four years in particular. They are deliberately bringing in people to cripple all these important services. How does it make sense to give them priority to important services over the citizens of the country.
Dead right, it is political, not about the people.
Don't think for a minute that the Government cares about the health of the people. Surely after the fiasco of the last 4 years everyone can see the damage not only to their finances but to their health. 👍🏻
The farm looks magnificent, Harry (apart from the flooded bits)
The National Food Strategy sounds insightful - I'll read it. Thanks for highlighting it.
It's time for experienced, intelligent people like yourself to set the agenda and publish their own policy and confront the inexperienced politicians. Stop allowing them to control the agenda and stop this rear guard arguing on their terms ...that's where the winging farmers bit comes from, I suspect.
This country should be producing everything required for a basic subsistence diet.
‘Insightful’? I doubt that very much.
Interesting update as always Harry, looks like us in the UK yet again aren’t at the front with agriculture, worrying times. Really enjoy the videos, thank you 👍
Please keep educating. All us farmers are in the same boat
Great summary - can we have a cow based video at some point, always love to see them in the fields?
Yes. And why not put more cattle on your land where the wheat is failing in the uncertain weather? If they like it in the next field, wouldn't they do just as well in the failing crops land?
@robinsoncrusoejr7089 I don't think they are Harry's cows, I thought they belonged to someone else and they use his field.
I've been virtually skint for the past 20 years [£800 (eight-hundred quid) annual income], hence living an exceedingly frugal lifestyle in the north of England. I can't afford a car now (or the bus, or a taxi), so I ride a bike and do 70 or so miles every week.
Trust me: obesity is not a problem when you've got no cash.
To save dosh, I've gone right back to basics - such as cooking my meals and boiling a kettle outdoors on a little open fire fuelled by locally-scavenged firewood. It's not much fun in winter, but it's cheap.
A big part of economising is returning to an old (very old) English diet. I grow my own food as much as possible [tiny 20' garden, augmented by containers and pots]; I don't eat useless luxuries (like sugar), and I treat myself to a chicken perhaps once a quarter. A meat dish is a major event in my life, and I never buy anything that isn't a recognisable chunk of a recognisable animal. My idea of 'processing' meat is stunning and killing it, not turning a moo-coo🐄 into a skip full o' pink goo.
But I can't afford beef, pork or lamb. I keep four hens (rescued, ex-battery), who give me a supply of eggs (thank you, ladies) and I eat quite a bit of DIY 2-part muesli (soak some porridge oats and sultanas in water overnight and it's quite sweet and palatable in the morning).
Can't afford much else. I refuse to buy or eat processed meals. Remember when we Brits were derided for avoiding so-called 'foreign muck' and not having a fancy national cuisine of our own? The traditional answer - which still holds true today - is that you don't need to develop a sophisticated national cuisine when you produce some of the finest ingredients in the world - meat in particular. British beef? Great stuff. Don't play with it, just roast it.
People like Harry produce excellent ingredients. Too bad I can't afford them.
But simple, homemade food is what interests me. Double egg and chips, anyone? That'll do me. I'm not a vegan (extremist religious nutters), nor am I a vegetarian. True, I rarely eat meat, but that's purely for financial reasons. Bring back simple food, I say.
No need to faff around, refining and processing mechanically-recovered garbage into barely edible crap. I get the impression that peeps in the USA pity anyone who has to eat food that hasn't been multi-processed, perhaps because they believe that it's a sign of status, of First World progress, of sophistication.
More ingredients, more flavours, more processing, more choices, more sugar, more fat, more sauce, then yet more processing... Yuk. It's certainly a good way to create an obesity epidemic.
Mocking unsophisticated Brits for wanting plain, simple, unprocessed food is fine by me. Go ahead. I don't like French cuisine, or any other supposedly advanced approach to food. If people want to laugh at my crude old-school stews and casseroles, feel free.
So... It occurs to me that for the past couple of decades I've essentially been living the life of a 14th century English peasant. And I rather like it. As it happens, the local bit of Common land where I pick up my free firewood dates back to 1360, so I really am doing the whole medieval peasant thing.
I winced when Harry talked about further rises in food prices. Sigh. There go my yummy oats. I'll just have to tighten my belt (again), and find a way to live off grass and leaves. Hmm... If I could grow 3 more stomachs I'd be able to chew the cud like a proper grumpy cow.
Your life sounds really interesting. Honestly I didn't think it possible for somebody to live such a frugal life in modern UK
Do you own a property outright? It's the mortgage payments or rent for most people that eats through their income.
Great vid Harry thank you look forward to next one
TL;DR we have too many people making "studies" and not enough making food.
Always enjoy your updates! Looking forward to the next!
I was in the health food grocery , bought into all the bs , oatmeal, kale , pea protein . Got sick with my bowels , got sicker ,and gained wait slowly , I gained a lot , started to eat cheese t , with oranges . My blood Suger went through the roof . All gone since I went mostly carnivore . And feel so much better lost forty pounds too .sleeping Soo much better .
Harry go into hay making and cattle .
I drink milk now and my allergies are better .raw milk .
It's great that more and more people are waking up to the need for real food. Raw milk, free range eggs and grass fed Beef. 👍🏻😎❤
I just don't understand how governments can pay farmers not to Farm The world is always going to need farmers for food
Not if theres a lot less people .
My tin foil hat is starting to get admiring looks .
Thanks for that Harry!! The voice of reason!
So educational HARRY 😊
Good interesting vid , it just shows the though`s in charge are not realy in touch with reality .
😊 fascinating as usual
Just what I was about to write. Don’t know how loving cars makes Harry so interesting with UK farming. But it is. Think it’s half Harry himself.
@@zzhughesd Farming was Harry's original career choice.
@@adrianchetwynd1334 Yup, ancestral ! Do know !!! He's just a decent act, across farm-to-motoring....
Your videos are really informative, its great that you can dissect and debunk govt or thinktank strategy docs, and explain them to non farming folk like me. You and JC are really onto something with this captivating of non farming audiences on the subject of farming.
Thanks Harry,
Insightful as always.
The future does not look too rosy.
Harry should grow more roses! 🙂
Hi Harry I wondering how the solar has been doing? Great video as usual 👍
I’ve noticed in the Thanet area , prime vegetable growing area ,a lot of acres down to growing wild flowers !!
You are brilliant for this country on this topic.
I hope you know how important your voice is Harry.
Methinks UK population needs to be 57 million like it was before Blair. Government number one priority is Food security 2, Secure borders. Simple as, our current Crop of politicians are VERY AVERAGE.
Not sustainable. There will be too many pensioners to be supported by too few workers. Known in the sphere of economics as the “support gap”. Over the next 20 years many countries will increasingly be promoting immigration. U.K. isn’t in the worst position. But the maths is pretty simple and indisputable.
@markukblackmore thus creating a never ending cycle of importing more people to pay for an ever increasing elderly population. We need a more intelligent plan.
@@Rover200Power Make 80% of the population unalive. Coming shortly.
@@Rover200Power we can look to Japan. So far they've avoided immigration but recently have encouraged the increase of native population.
Higher food prices (leading to food shortages and ultimately ending in "degrowth" and "depopulation") is the real purpose of the National Food Strategy, so it seems that the National Food Strategy is working as designed.
100% correct. This is not an accident
So, if the National Food Strategy employs vegan soy-boys sitting at computers to do their modelling, they will be sure to achieve foolish charts with just the sort of propaganda we are being shown in the Strategy in this video. They employ people who are part of the net zero cult on purpose, to drive their horrible agenda forward.
If depopulation was the aim then our borders would be shut, they are as we all know, wide open. We had 1.2 million gross come trotting in last year and the possibility of 1.5 million this year and yet more next year.
@@whylie74More people means less food to go around! Less food grown + a rapid population increase = no food, but faster! The end result is still depopulation.
Food is incredibly cheap in the UK compared to the rest of Europe, which is why farmers can’t make any money.
Please talk more about the Sussex heratage breed of cattle and why it is so good for extensive grass beef production.
thank you Harry
50% of emissions after all other emissions have been nobbled. The absolute figure is not changing, just the proportion in relation to other emissions that are dropping. The use of percentages is purposefully misleading and is being used to establish a pecking order.
I will never understand why they don’t ask farmers their opinion when it comes to food production and farming instead of phDs who produce nothing aside from endless reports filled with meaningless graphs. We need to produce our own food or we will always be vulnerable to supply shock and inflationary pressure when there are worldwide events such as a pandemic.
Paying large incentives to food producers to not produce food seems incredibly foolish.
It's what we voted for.
Probably because farmers have a narrow self centred view of food production and land management. A good academic will study the science from as many different angles as possible in a balanced way in order to understand the issues better and make wiser, long term decisions for the benefit of both humanity and the wider environment.
Definitely agree farmers should be consulted better, but they are one small cog in the decision making process. The main problem is most decisions are political and often not based on the best science. Money, personal bias and party political influences all play a role in poor decision making.
@@mooskamoo That's right 'academics' know more about farming than farmers, are you listening to your self??
@@mooskamoo So making food production and food security for this country less good is a good idea.
@@DaveClarke-qu7ui Do you know what an academic is? They are people who study things scienticially.
thanks for the talk
You never mention the WEF who seem to be pulling the strings of Governments. Why?
HE WONT GO ANYWHERE NEAR SPEAKING ABOUT UNCLE KLAUS!!
The most sustainable least polluting food to produce is sheep on upland ground ideally.
But sheep grown anywhere are just much better than any other food, minimal/ zero inputs, thriving on diverse forage which supports Biodiverse nature and super high density nutritional food, almost no transport or tractors or chemicals required needed.
If you truly care about the environment eat sheep.
And make sure you eat the lamb's livers, especially with bacon and mushrooms rather than fava beans and a nice Chianti.
Do you mean eating lamb or mutton? Lamb doesn't seem to be very efficient because we kill the animal when it still has the potential to get bigger and pack on more muscle. Mutton has an image problem and as far as I know, needs cooking for a long time so uses more energy to cook.
I do agree with your sentiment though. It seems strange that farmers like Harry are growing wheat that then gets fed to chickens which we then eat. Seems better to me to just grow and eat something in one stage not two.
@@AnthonyRosbottom lamb for continental breeds or hogget for native are the most economical £ per kg and efficiency on the land. Mutton is not much bigger than lamb or hogget in fact it can be smaller in many breeds as sheep are often fattened for a few weeks prior to slaughter.
@@AnthonyRosbottom plus males over 18months in most animal species make unpalatable meat due to excess testosterone.
@@r016976 Thanks for the info. I'm not a farmer, just a layman with questions. But cheers, all very interesting. My mum fed me lambs brains as a toddler. I'm glad I don't remember it but goes to show it's only warped perceptions that stop us from using more of the animals for food
Absolutely superb video pointing out why UK agriculture produces the food we do, mentioning both climate and land and soil types available
Super interesting - Would like more video's on the subject - Thanks!
I always wonder; if you know its not going to work and so does every other farmer, then why the hell don't the government? Whose the moron in government thsts not listening and why aren't they?
Or am I thinking way too rationally?!
@@Matt-go7ss yes, you are thinking way too rationally Matt...I would suggest that the government knows exactly what it is doing, for IT'S own agenda, which is not necessarily an agenda that is good for the population, only for the minister's paymasters...think outside the box a little, and from the opposite side of the perspective, and I think you'll get closer to the truth.
@@strypzee Rural communities generally elect Conservative.
@@strypzee totally agree.
Mr Sunak is not a farmer. The current minister has “a farming background” (the nfu says he still farms the family farm )but he seems to have been in full time politics since his election in 2010