Even as a country boy i have always found farmers tight lipped with all farming practices shrouded in secrecy...its great with Harry's help to finally understand what's been going on around me in the fields for the last 53 years. Well done Harry and keep it up and yes he is a natural in front of the camera!
Last time I had contact with farms and the farming community was back in the 70s! Its amazing how farming has changed. The only thing that seems to be the same is being beholden to the weather!
Other than for spaying, or ploughing, I always wondered what the various attachments were doing on the back of tractors in fields. This is a great way to give us city dwellers an insight in the procedures and rhythms of farming, the worries and setbacks that bad weather provide, and how prices and land management determine what crops are put where, and when. I really love these updates !
Another great insight into the business of farming from Harry. I have a greater admiration for farmers from watching these reports as the variables they have to deal with are immense. Harry’s a great presenter and his passion shows through, as he does for his cars on Harry’s Garage.
A great watch as usual. This would be a wonderful insight for schools. Perhaps future generations would understand the importance of those who work so hard to produce their food.
My grandad was a livestock and arable farmer. I now fully understand all the problems he used to face on his farm in Swaby Lincs. Thanks Harry love Harry's garage but equally love Harry's farm, keep it up
Just found this channel and flicked through a few of your videos and I have to say you do a brilliant job of explaining everything, we have a real problem in farming of the majority of folk not having a clue about what we do or where there food comes from, it's a especially bad when they get to vote on our practices, but from now on I'm very happy to have found such a great channel that I can show people to better explain what we do. Well done Harry your clearly doing a good job and we need more like you.
I have to go with a lot of the comments and say how much I’m enjoying this blog. It certainly reminds me of BBC’s Sunday’s Farming program before, madness took over the corporation and changed it to the drivel of Countryfile. Great blog and I can only ask keep it up👍🏻
Watching night time farming is really good and makes excellent TV, seeing it how it happens with no bs. It's also great to see you doing things almost in tandem with the local farmer near us in Sussex, I can appreciate what he is doing!
Thanks for comment, that's why I'm trying to do super-quick edit on the videos, so whatever we're up to on the farm makes more sense with the weather outside.
I particularly enjoy the economic and market related comments, measures, risks, prices etc. none of which - as an end consumer - am I much aware of. Thanks for sharing!
I have a complaint. My wife loves your voice so much I think she is starting to fancy you. She says she could listen to you reading the London telephone directory. After 15 years frankly you are welcome to her so no hard feelings and I will still continue watch both channels.
Mark Riley For reference, Usamah was a 12th century soldier, fighting against Crusaders. He narrates a story of a European “man” walking along with his wife. He meets another man who takes his wife by the hand and steps aside to converse with her while the husband is standing on one side waiting for his wife to conclude the conversation. If she lingers too long for him, he leaves her alone with the conversant and goes away. European “men” are ok with their wives being taken by other men.
@@monkmodemalik8225 a cursory knowledge of European history and culture shows this to be utter codswallop. That said, European societies were generally very high trust (mostly until the last century), unlike a lot of places around the world that have been utterly marred by low trust, corruption and generally aggressive behaviour. It's no coincidence that we're heading the same way.
@@sh-hg4eg European societies also have the highest rates of non paternity events (NPE). Cultures such as those in the Middle East and East Africa have the lowest rates of y dna diversity, which means foreign men where kept out of the gene pool. By comparison there is high y dna diversity in European ethnicities, which means foreign men where allowed to mate with and impregnate local European women. They were then also allowed to identify with the European ethnicity (and were accepted by the community) and hence diversity of male origin in Europeans. Science doesn’t lie. See where this “high trust society” gets you? Besides, I provided a primary historical source and scientific evidence for the claims, but you responded with emotion.
I love the science of farming - Harry, you are a master at choosing your options, adapting to the conditions, making best use of the weather windows and keeping so level headed when the weather conditions are seemingly conspiring against you - I work in the construction industry and the weather certainly influence road construction - we can loose large tonnages of gravel into the ground when working in wet ground against a deadline, so I can have some empathy with you guys.
Hi Harry, have just come across your videos and have sat and watched all off them, I’m from a farming background but still found your films very interesting, You seem to have the knack of keeping people interested in what your saying, maybe missed your vocation could have been a presenter lol. Any way thanks for posting for us all to enjoy and I will be looking forward to seeing your next instalment. Stephen
Also came here from your great garage-channel. Love the vids about your frarm 👍. Watched them all in one day. Keep up the good work with both of your channels 👍
Half way through this video, and once again I have to remind myself I'm actually watching (and very much enjoying!) a video on FARMING!! From Lambo's to Linseed - Harry just knows how to keep us watching! 😉
Isn't it funny, that? The way he describes the driving experience while driving the Diablo a couple of months back is one of my favorite bits of motoring journalism, and here I am raptured by the farm and the way the whole "story" is playing out. Harry's just the real deal, plain and simple!
Had life delt not delt a sad blow I would have been a farmer. What your (Harry) videi show is what life would have been like as apposed to what I did with my life. Thanks very much for the detail, so interesting.
Blimey Harry hate to think what the farm is like at the moment with this rain ☔️ hope you managed to get the rest of the crop seeding done in time😳 keep up the great work Harry I don’t live to far from you in Ramsden, so not only now do I look out for you in one of you lovely cars I also look at all the tractors now as well to see if it’s you 🙈😄
A bit nerdy, I know, but I'm fascinated by soil. Seeing that stony stuff up close was really unusual. When I was younger I lived for several years in East Africa (my dad was with the Flying Doctor Service in Kenya). Our house and 1 acre plot was on black cotton soil, which is extraordinary stuff, made even more weird by the local weather. In the dry season it was split by 18" deep cracks wide enough to lose a tennis ball down, and it became unbelievably glutinous in the rainy season. Walking across bare soil would put (literally) 5" platform soles of mud on your wellies! A lot of the surrounding areas were on bright orange-red soil (similar colour to those amazing 'rusty' deserts you see in Australia and elsewhere). It was very fine-grained - as smooth as talcum powder. It flowed like a liquid when it was dry, and turned to slippery melted butter when it got wet. Cutting unpaved roads through red-soil country was problematic because the surface offered almost zero grip in the wet, and it formed 3' deep car-swallowing drifts in the dry. Both soil types grew excellent crops, but they weren't easy to work. So... I'd love to see Harry rolling some wet black cotton soil. His tractor would end up wearing enormous, sticky mud-tyres 8' high and his pressure-washer would never forgive him! ;-)
Halfway home, nice! You're fortunate that your custom sprayer/driller is available to do the work on short notice. Just a bit more luck you'll have it all planted, but at any rate you've done better than many. All luck to you.
I recall that’s what we used to call Murphy’s law on the family farm the weather can be fickle to say the least but at least it’s half done! I hope the next few days see the right weather to get the other half done in a day. Good luck Harry
The stars aligned for you, Harry - well, momentarily. I wish you had been my teacher at agricultural college - you explain everything so well and in an entertaining manner - maybe I would have gone farming myself. Zero till would be an attractive option, if you can make it work for you. Here's hoping you can get the rest of your winter wheat in and reap the rewards of the rising prices.
I'm close to farming without being personally involved into it and I know a few things. Still amazed but the work of all these people (farmers) who goes ups and downs all the time trying to bring something in the spring and summer. It is so easy to go to the supermarket and just grab a loaf of bread without understanding the enormous struggle behind it.
I'm in mid-Sussex where I can see what's happening and thanks to RUclips I can compare with Hants and Cotswolds. Wet, wet and wet and very little drilling. All very interesting for someone raised on a 50's farm! Tractor with a cab and lights? Come on Harry.
Great presentation of really interesting material, Harry, but of course you already realise that, with the ever increasing subscriber count. I'd be interested to see a review of the farm buildings, their uses and what improvements you would like to make.
Hope you get a gap in the wetness. We managed to Harrow, disc, plant and roll most of ours in the one day it was dry and are just waiting on the weather to finish off the rest
Hope the weather stays fine and clear in the coming days for you. Although an east wind means if will have to come through Czech Republic first. We don't like that here :)
Good film well explained to the lay man. We need to explain the reason for glyphosate use especially on min & strip till systems. Keep up the good farming story telling. Has you neighbour manage to get his soya crop harvested? Here in Bedfordshire I have not yet managed to get any winter wheat drilled. Some have, others are starting to maul crop in. Some varieties will produce respectable yields from late November drillings albeit we will need to step up seed rates to 400 + sqm. It is crucial we only drill when soil will flow and we can get the pre-em on within a couple of days of drilling/rolling (although I have pushed it to a week this time of year in the )
Oh snap we got a new intro! I thought I had no interest in farming until I started watching your videos. OG Harrys Garage Fan here :) Thanks for sharing
Brilliant vidio as ever, explaining the problems of an extremely wet autumn and min till. Lucky you are on Cotswold brash and not Essex clays. Ever thought of spring wheat ?
We're all in the same boat, right across the UK.... Was depressing by mid October, but just before the weather finally turned, many of us were totally resigned to the idea of simply broadcasting and harrowing, with the old adage that you can " put wheat into slop and you're sure of a crop", not forgetting that " a poor crop of wheat is better than a good crop of barley". You can get depressed to the point that you just do what you do, no sense in worrying about a situation you can do nothing about.... Anyway, this will be an autumn to forget, that we will remember for a long time, and from back in 2012, the last really wet autumn, my advice on slug control is simple..... Spend the money early while you still have a crop to pay for it. Absolutely love the Harry's Farm series, should be compulsory viewing for school children.
Thanks for comment. I'll try and highlight the fact the dye is cast as soon as you put the crop in the ground. Last year we drilled in perfect conditions and got a record yield for this farm. I can't see that happening again next year but would be very happy to be proved wrong come 2020 combine time!
So much investment dependant on the weather where some rain can make or break you. I enjoy playing roulette, think I'm pretty good at it, but I know my limit and it is far less than the costs of combines, tractors, and tons of perishable seed! Clearly farming takes balls.
Would it be possible to go into farm technology, like the latest tractors, machinery and also agriculture advances? I think that this channel is the first and maybe only connection many people will get into farming and agriculture.
Love your videos both on the farm and the garage! One question, in Sweden everyone uses double tires to reduce ground pressure but why don’t you do it in England?
We have to have the flashing lights on our vehicles when we're working on the airfield at LHR, and it is so easy to forget about them. I did think to myself this must've answered a lot of farmers prayers just a shame it couldn't hold out. Just a question Harry, I grew up in Eastern Scotland and in that part of the world spring barley is by far the biggest acreage grown, probably followed by OSR and winter barley/wheat. Is there a big difference in the profit margins between them and wheat?
I do enjoy Harry’s Garage, but I am loving Harry’s farm.
Ron Sanders same
Same here, I know nothing about farming so this is interesting stuff told by a brilliant host.
I came for the cars. Stayed for the farming.
These farming videos are really interesting Harry, thank you!
I would subscribe to Harry's Laundry where Harry shows us how he does the wash....he is a natural RUclips presenter.
What about Harry's Dinner? Where he takes us through starter, mains and puddin'. I'd watch that too.
Harry’s kitchen
Too funny mate. I would too.
What a fascinating insight into farming. Like a lot of city dwellers I have little idea what is involved...Thank You.
Good to hear, as aim of channel was to engage those not overly familiar with farming practices today.
Even as a country boy i have always found farmers tight lipped with all farming practices shrouded in secrecy...its great with Harry's help to finally understand what's been going on around me in the fields for the last 53 years. Well done Harry and keep it up and yes he is a natural in front of the camera!
Quality! 😂
Last time I had contact with farms and the farming community was back in the 70s! Its amazing how farming has changed. The only thing that seems to be the same is being beholden to the weather!
Other than for spaying, or ploughing, I always wondered what the various attachments were doing on the back of tractors in fields. This is a great way to give us city dwellers an insight in the procedures and rhythms of farming, the worries and setbacks that bad weather provide, and how prices and land management determine what crops are put where, and when. I really love these updates !
Another great insight into the business of farming from Harry. I have a greater admiration for farmers from watching these reports as the variables they have to deal with are immense. Harry’s a great presenter and his passion shows through, as he does for his cars on Harry’s Garage.
I really enjoy the "twist" to the format that the Farm is more serial in nature. The variables that go into farming seem endless!
Nice video. Its so educational this series - weather turns, and away you go. Should be made compulsory viewing for school kids. Good Luck!
A great watch as usual. This would be a wonderful insight for schools. Perhaps future generations would understand the importance of those who work so hard to produce their food.
My grandad was a livestock and arable farmer. I now fully understand all the problems he used to face on his farm in Swaby Lincs. Thanks Harry love Harry's garage but equally love Harry's farm, keep it up
Always been into cars.....always secretly wanted to be a farmer. Harry delivering the dream content, cheers!
Just found this channel and flicked through a few of your videos and I have to say you do a brilliant job of explaining everything, we have a real problem in farming of the majority of folk not having a clue about what we do or where there food comes from, it's a especially bad when they get to vote on our practices, but from now on I'm very happy to have found such a great channel that I can show people to better explain what we do.
Well done Harry your clearly doing a good job and we need more like you.
I have to go with a lot of the comments and say how much I’m enjoying this blog. It certainly reminds me of BBC’s Sunday’s Farming program before, madness took over the corporation and changed it to the drivel of Countryfile. Great blog and I can only ask keep it up👍🏻
Dad and I used to watch it each Sunday, some of the veterinary stuff was filmed not far from us.
Really informative and a great watch! Best of luck with the remaining drilling!
Watching night time farming is really good and makes excellent TV, seeing it how it happens with no bs. It's also great to see you doing things almost in tandem with the local farmer near us in Sussex, I can appreciate what he is doing!
Thanks for comment, that's why I'm trying to do super-quick edit on the videos, so whatever we're up to on the farm makes more sense with the weather outside.
Harry, you could make watching paint dry interesting! Love Harry’s Farm and Harry’s garage, brilliant content.
Excellent as always Harry hopefully the weather will cheer up and let you get finished
"Park the rolls" has a completely different meaning on Harry's Farm and Harry's Garage
That is a brilliant Comment.
P.S. - BRILLIANT! :-)
I particularly enjoy the economic and market related comments, measures, risks, prices etc. none of which - as an end consumer - am I much aware of. Thanks for sharing!
makes us realize just how important our farmers are. no farmers no food.... Thanks H
I have a complaint. My wife loves your voice so much I think she is starting to fancy you. She says she could listen to you reading the London telephone directory. After 15 years frankly you are welcome to her so no hard feelings and I will still continue watch both channels.
This is.. interesting and certainly puts into perspective what Ūsamah ibn Munqidh said of European “men” in his book Kitab al Itibar 900 years ago.
Julian TOLLEMACHE what did he say? That they have a penchant for self deprecating humour?
Mark Riley For reference, Usamah was a 12th century soldier, fighting against Crusaders.
He narrates a story of a European “man” walking along with his wife. He meets another man who takes his wife by the hand and steps aside to converse with her while the husband is standing on one side waiting for his wife to conclude the conversation. If she lingers too long for him, he leaves her alone with the conversant and goes away.
European “men” are ok with their wives being taken by other men.
@@monkmodemalik8225 a cursory knowledge of European history and culture shows this to be utter codswallop.
That said, European societies were generally very high trust (mostly until the last century), unlike a lot of places around the world that have been utterly marred by low trust, corruption and generally aggressive behaviour. It's no coincidence that we're heading the same way.
@@sh-hg4eg European societies also have the highest rates of non paternity events (NPE). Cultures such as those in the Middle East and East Africa have the lowest rates of y dna diversity, which means foreign men where kept out of the gene pool. By comparison there is high y dna diversity in European ethnicities, which means foreign men where allowed to mate with and impregnate local European women. They were then also allowed to identify with the European ethnicity (and were accepted by the community) and hence diversity of male origin in Europeans. Science doesn’t lie.
See where this “high trust society” gets you?
Besides, I provided a primary historical source and scientific evidence for the claims, but you responded with emotion.
I love the science of farming - Harry, you are a master at choosing your options, adapting to the conditions, making best use of the weather windows and keeping so level headed when the weather conditions are seemingly conspiring against you - I work in the construction industry and the weather certainly influence road construction - we can loose large tonnages of gravel into the ground when working in wet ground against a deadline, so I can have some empathy with you guys.
I have just discovered Harry`s Farming video`s , they are really informative , i now know what my local farmer is doing sometimes late at night .
Always fascinating. Much more interesting to learn of the ups and downs of farming 1st hand than from a detached presenter
Gentle, calming, restful, informative. A world away for an ex-pat in Australia, back one day, thankfully.
Thanks so much Harry! I’m finding all this Fascinating ,who’d have known 🤷♂️ You now have me checking your forecast from Norfolk
Hi Harry, have just come across your videos and have sat and watched all off them, I’m from a farming background but still found your films very interesting, You seem to have the knack of keeping people interested in what your saying, maybe missed your vocation could have been a presenter lol.
Any way thanks for posting for us all to enjoy and I will be looking forward to seeing your next instalment. Stephen
Harry is the David Attenborough of farming. Could listen to him all day.
Another great informative video. I have a greater appreciation of what goes on in a farm. 👍👍👍
Yet another example of the tolerance and stresses of farming life, I,ve never watched the weather as much since subscribing lol
Also came here from your great garage-channel. Love the vids about your frarm 👍. Watched them all in one day. Keep up the good work with both of your channels 👍
Half way through this video, and once again I have to remind myself I'm actually watching (and very much enjoying!) a video on FARMING!! From Lambo's to Linseed - Harry just knows how to keep us watching! 😉
Isn't it funny, that? The way he describes the driving experience while driving the Diablo a couple of months back is one of my favorite bits of motoring journalism, and here I am raptured by the farm and the way the whole "story" is playing out. Harry's just the real deal, plain and simple!
Had life delt not delt a sad blow I would have been a farmer. What your (Harry) videi show is what life would have been like as apposed to what I did with my life. Thanks very much for the detail, so interesting.
I'm weirdly obsessed with these farm updates! 😂 I love how knowledgeable farmers need to be about such a variety of things. Keep them coming Harry! 👍
Shows strength of character to talk so casually about the difficulties for other peoples' interest.
Indeed ! I'd be sent to the Naughty Step for a month if I had these setbacks. A great lesson in dealing with things when they don't go your way.
Terrific Harry. After all this stress and heartache you deserve all the rewards. Best of luck.
Blimey Harry hate to think what the farm is like at the moment with this rain ☔️ hope you managed to get the rest of the crop seeding done in time😳 keep up the great work Harry I don’t live to far from you in Ramsden, so not only now do I look out for you in one of you lovely cars I also look at all the tractors now as well to see if it’s you 🙈😄
A bit nerdy, I know, but I'm fascinated by soil. Seeing that stony stuff up close was really unusual.
When I was younger I lived for several years in East Africa (my dad was with the Flying Doctor Service in Kenya). Our house and 1 acre plot was on black cotton soil, which is extraordinary stuff, made even more weird by the local weather.
In the dry season it was split by 18" deep cracks wide enough to lose a tennis ball down, and it became unbelievably glutinous in the rainy season. Walking across bare soil would put (literally) 5" platform soles of mud on your wellies!
A lot of the surrounding areas were on bright orange-red soil (similar colour to those amazing 'rusty' deserts you see in Australia and elsewhere). It was very fine-grained - as smooth as talcum powder. It flowed like a liquid when it was dry, and turned to slippery melted butter when it got wet.
Cutting unpaved roads through red-soil country was problematic because the surface offered almost zero grip in the wet, and it formed 3' deep car-swallowing drifts in the dry.
Both soil types grew excellent crops, but they weren't easy to work.
So... I'd love to see Harry rolling some wet black cotton soil. His tractor would end up wearing enormous, sticky mud-tyres 8' high and his pressure-washer would never forgive him! ;-)
I enjoyed learning about that. Thank you.
Your channel is the best on you tube...
Brilliant. Am loving the way you explain the issues and challenges.
Halfway home, nice! You're fortunate that your custom sprayer/driller is available to do the work on short notice. Just a bit more luck you'll have it all planted, but at any rate you've done better than many. All luck to you.
Sprayer and drill owned by neighbouring farmer family, so more of a machinery share ring than a true contractor. Works well.
Got it, that's nice. Good news about the prices, amazing how quickly the market reacts. Sadly, it can react just as quickly in the wrong direction.
Wishing good weather for you Harry!
Best of luck Harry! Keep your chin up.
I recall that’s what we used to call Murphy’s law on the family farm the weather can be fickle to say the least but at least it’s half done! I hope the next few days see the right weather to get the other half done in a day. Good luck Harry
All the best Harry despite the soggy conditions.
The stars aligned for you, Harry - well, momentarily. I wish you had been my teacher at agricultural college - you explain everything so well and in an entertaining manner - maybe I would have gone farming myself. Zero till would be an attractive option, if you can make it work for you. Here's hoping you can get the rest of your winter wheat in and reap the rewards of the rising prices.
Harry, you derserve even more success in your life as you already achieved.
Always liked Harry's Garage and this is just as interesting. Can't wait to see Harry's Watches, please!
I really hope this will happen. Sounds like a great winter oriented channel when the farm is more or less in a "sleep" mode.
Your doing well compared to some. We keep picking off bits as we can but along way to go. Great video. Keep them coming. Regards
Frustrating isn't it?
@@harrysfarmvids lol extremely
I'm close to farming without being personally involved into it and I know a few things. Still amazed but the work of all these people (farmers) who goes ups and downs all the time trying to bring something in the spring and summer. It is so easy to go to the supermarket and just grab a loaf of bread without understanding the enormous struggle behind it.
Brilliant informative video Harry - hope you get some more dry weather!
I've only just stumbled across your channel. It's great. Love the way you explain the farming process. Very interesting. I've subscribed!
I'm in mid-Sussex where I can see what's happening and thanks to RUclips I can compare with Hants and Cotswolds. Wet, wet and wet and very little drilling. All very interesting for someone raised on a 50's farm! Tractor with a cab and lights? Come on Harry.
Thanks for sharing Harry 👍🇦🇺🚜
Another brilliant video ! The ordinary becomes really interesting ! I think I’ll start farming again .....
Well done getting some wheat in, Harry! We're still in a muddy puddle here. Northamptonshire clay is not forgiving 😢
Can imagine, 1st wheat ground post drilling was a big surprise to me. Still only got 60% rolled before rains arrived, though.
love it nearly as much as the espada rebuild . can't wait to see it finished
Can't wait to see the next espada chapter.... really falling in love with them....
Very informative as usual. Thanks Harry
Thank goodness I have something better to watch whilst rest of family watches Strictly Come Dancing.
Getting it done Harry - good job !
This is having an undue influence I live in NZ and I just checked the weeks forecast for the Cotswolds.
Great presentation of really interesting material, Harry, but of course you already realise that, with the ever increasing subscriber count. I'd be interested to see a review of the farm buildings, their uses and what improvements you would like to make.
LovelyJubbly, hope the weather improves for you soon.
Very insightful, thanks Harry.
Your lucky to get it in Harry. We not got any winter wheat in this time, it looks Like we will have to put spring barley in
Great video once again. Hope you get finished drilling in near future.
great video so glad i found you as a lot of others ive been watching dont do as long vids with as much info very good vids thankyou
Hope you get a gap in the wetness. We managed to Harrow, disc, plant and roll most of ours in the one day it was dry and are just waiting on the weather to finish off the rest
Rapid response on Harry's farm the Clayton system is good job
Harry, could you touch base on the costs and business model of farming? I don't think it's as simple as grow, sell, grow again!
I love this, amazing the detail and science and whatnot. Just thought you wang the seed in the ground and up pops wheat!
Two great channels.
Hope the weather stays fine and clear in the coming days for you. Although an east wind means if will have to come through Czech Republic first. We don't like that here :)
Hi Harry. This is why my father gave up farming ( in Australia ) and sold farm machinery instead......
God I bloody love this channel.
Harry's farm should be on TV! Like on a country file typ slot🚜🚜🚜🚜
Happy you got something in. Hope you get a chance to do more. I missed, there must be a cutoff point after which you won't plant.
Good film well explained to the lay man. We need to explain the reason for glyphosate use especially on min & strip till systems. Keep up the good farming story telling. Has you neighbour manage to get his soya crop harvested? Here in Bedfordshire I have not yet managed to get any winter wheat drilled. Some have, others are starting to maul crop in. Some varieties will produce respectable yields from late November drillings albeit we will need to step up seed rates to 400 + sqm. It is crucial we only drill when soil will flow and we can get the pre-em on within a couple of days of drilling/rolling (although I have pushed it to a week this time of year in the )
When Harry speaks the weather god listens 😂👍
Nice one Arry, keep em coming.
Oh snap we got a new intro! I thought I had no interest in farming until I started watching your videos. OG Harrys Garage Fan here :) Thanks for sharing
I like your car content. I have no idea about farming, starting to like it though.
Brilliant vidio as ever, explaining the problems of an extremely wet autumn and min till. Lucky you are on Cotswold brash and not Essex clays.
Ever thought of spring wheat ?
Grew it once, won't bother again! Late maturing, low yield, hard to sell too.
We're all in the same boat, right across the UK.... Was depressing by mid October, but just before the weather finally turned, many of us were totally resigned to the idea of simply broadcasting and harrowing, with the old adage that you can " put wheat into slop and you're sure of a crop", not forgetting that " a poor crop of wheat is better than a good crop of barley". You can get depressed to the point that you just do what you do, no sense in worrying about a situation you can do nothing about.... Anyway, this will be an autumn to forget, that we will remember for a long time, and from back in 2012, the last really wet autumn, my advice on slug control is simple..... Spend the money early while you still have a crop to pay for it. Absolutely love the Harry's Farm series, should be compulsory viewing for school children.
Thanks for comment. I'll try and highlight the fact the dye is cast as soon as you put the crop in the ground. Last year we drilled in perfect conditions and got a record yield for this farm. I can't see that happening again next year but would be very happy to be proved wrong come 2020 combine time!
Time to get a set of tracks for your Case, Harry!
Great contrast of life 👌🏻
Love the term “volunteer” - seed from a previous season. Volunteer potatoes around Cheshire a common thing!
So much investment dependant on the weather where some rain can make or break you. I enjoy playing roulette, think I'm pretty good at it, but I know my limit and it is far less than the costs of combines, tractors, and tons of perishable seed! Clearly farming takes balls.
Good lucky Harry !
This is so satisfying to watch.
I do love Harry's farm, Even want to go and buy some Roundup..
Best of luck!
Would it be possible to go into farm technology, like the latest tractors, machinery and also agriculture advances? I think that this channel is the first and maybe only connection many people will get into farming and agriculture.
Love your videos both on the farm and the garage! One question, in Sweden everyone uses double tires to reduce ground pressure but why don’t you do it in England?
Narrow high banked lanes to much trouble to pull on and off between fields need to widen all roads !!
With those amazing lights is there any need for putting the clocks back? Why not keep BST all year round?
MrJohnQCitizen I wish we would, still the same amount of daylight. Much rather have it in the afternoon that early in the morning
We have to have the flashing lights on our vehicles when we're working on the airfield at LHR, and it is so easy to forget about them. I did think to myself this must've answered a lot of farmers prayers just a shame it couldn't hold out. Just a question Harry, I grew up in Eastern Scotland and in that part of the world spring barley is by far the biggest acreage grown, probably followed by OSR and winter barley/wheat. Is there a big difference in the profit margins between them and wheat?
Very good video Harry and so true about the flasher a pet hate of mine. Any chance of a look at the cattle?all the best.
Cattle left the farm about a month ago as they were due to calve. Sheep arriving in about a week, though.
I thought you owned the cattle a look st the sheep sometime
A look at the sheep sometime so thanks
And it`s ruddy well rainin again; don`t tell me it`s gonna be the warmest xmas in history!
At least you have started planting, had your neighbour harvest the soya yet? Excellent as ever
I love all of it, every second. But that sprayer. That needs to go, Harry..
Great insight to farming and crop yield thanks Harry. Whats your worry's on Brexit?
The stone must play hell with the implements.