As world grain & fertiliser prices go crazy, will DEFRA refocus on increasing UK food production?
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- Опубликовано: 10 мар 2022
- The Ukraine war causes turmoil in the market but what does this mean for UK farming? Plus the new estate fencing by wenhamyoung... is nearly finished and looks terrific.
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National food security should be a priority, not an afterthought.
food security doesn't mean we need to produce it, we just mean that we have to have systems to ensure we get it.
Home produced food should be the target for the government. Unfortunately they are too shortsighted to see that and will happily exchange food security for a trade deal.
@@Ghhyuttgg Supplies from outside the UK are always subject to world events and the whims of interested parties. Just look at the curfuffle with the EU over the Covid vaccine or getting food supplies to the UK in WW2.
@@Ghhyuttgg How do you do this in a crisis situation where people in other countries lack food and/or can not afford food?
More allotments please. Totally agree with your view.
Food and energy security should be top priority for the government But don’t hold your breath .
Isn't the Government busy concentrating on covering over huge tracts of food production land with shoddy, homogenous houses, because 'we need more housing' which is totally at odds with food security, self sufficiency and cutting carbon emissions?
Very interesting. I harvest rice in North East Thailand. The cost of fertilizer has shot up. Many poor farmers can't afford it now. Rice is worth very little here now.
It's almost like farmers have been telling the Government that importing all your food is a bad idea for months, if not years, and now food prices are being affected by global events the Government is surprised that importing all your food isn't sustainable.
american food is cheap, but.....farmers and/or woke morons dont like it
As a country there is very little we are self sufficient at. A combination of 10's of factors but greed and poor work ethic is one of them, people constantly want more money, they make little wins until bang, the industry is too expensive and it moves out the UK. Unionised = end of the industry. Hence why we have no steel industry, no car industry, no ship yards... People are so blind.
Politicians obviously never read history books. And the do gooders just want the countryside covered in pretty flower meadows.
@@artureff3046 it's not about being woke. It's about crap food standards. Additives known to cause cancer are still allowed in foods in the US because they were 'grandfathered in' the reason their food is so cheap is because 1. scale, and 2. lack of regualtion.
With respect the uk farmers have done bugger all about facilitating providing the UK with UK grown produce All they’ve done is moan and complain whilst taking EU handouts
Has anyone noticed how at any given chance prices soar almost instantly and then take forever to come back down to reasonable levels? It is almost a case of extending the chance to fleece the common citizen for as long as possible
Absolutely. The "stickiness" is deliberate and designed to boost margins and therefore profits in price volatility "windows". It's a disgusting practice that should have been banned outright across all key sectors years ago.
same with taxes
I was just thinking that myself. Presumably there are stocks of oil so why charge immediately on the old stocks.what needs to be done is some sort of regulation of oil prices. Countries need to come together and say to the oil producers, no, we will pay this amount and no more. As always with crisis it means for the ultra wealthy it’s another cash cow to make more money. Just look at the massive personal increase in wealth for Bezos with retail restrictions increasing his wealth by billions. This all needs to end. It’s the Americans fault with their ruddy free market thought processes. Trouble is nothing is ever free and it always comes down to joe and Jill average to pay the costs!
@@ianmedium oil price controls? not going to happen, however, I think the current volatility will settle down once traders and producers get a better idea of availability.
One aspect of prices being sticky is the amount of money printing that's gone on. No more boom and bust, just boom and boom (and at some point an almighty reckoning).
nice one Harry. It not just DEFRA though. We have governments that think only of today. We have not strategic gas or oil reserves anymore, or food. Its all penny pinching and short termism.
& 'look good on the world stageism' re 'net zero'.
For the next tw years at least there probably isn't much of a decent plan.
Your comment is very true..
Governments aren’t for real.
They are sooo out of touch it’s unreal.
They need to focus on real time issues..
Food
Energy
Manufacturing of goods
The global network isn’t the future.
It’s for ourselves to look after ourselves..
You need a benevolent dictator for long term planning. Business is just the same, with CEOs only doing about five years, before moving on
We also have a population that only thinks about the money in there pocket when they vote. Even when they agree on a problem there split on the solution.
Sometimes in the next year or so, as the price of foodstuffs goes through the roof. the lunacy of building numerous newhousing estates on fertile farmland ought to cause us to put a stop to this lunacy. Across every British county thousands of acres have been, and are being turned into huge new housing developments. When will we begin to accept and acknowledge that food production must be the national priority, and that housing developments must be restricted to brownfield sites only.
Absolutely Correct!
Even in Scotland, huge tracts of agricultural land been sold to property developers to build 1000's of houses.
Its almost as if the Tory party's biggest donors are (apart from wealthy Russians) property developers....
It’s a world wide issue. We are having the same problem here In Canada. Land is set aside to not be developed called ARL (agricultural reserve land) yet developers are lawyering up and petitioning the governments to remove the ARL status so they can develop on the valuable land.
@@raymondselinger5607 Thank you. The problem appears to be wider than I had thought.
Thank you for mentioning the Ukraine, Harry
Atm in Ireland the Gov wants everyone to start growing wheat and barley.. They must be off there heads if they think farmers who aren't big contractors can afford the diesel/seed and fertilizer to do it. It was proposed that ok you want all of us the start growing crops, we supply the land and you pay for the fert, seed ect.. They went quiet.. Well they have less than a month to make up there minds before its all too late.. My educated guess says, being a govt, they wont come to an agreement in time and we will all end up paying 5 euros for a box of cornflakes in 2 months time...
cant see any dairy farmers ploughing up land .........they drove tillage farmers out of land that they had been renting over the past few years .......so where is the extra tillage land going to come from to grow the extra grain ........i grow enough to feed my livestock and that will be the way i will continue ... little enough out of growing barley already , before all the inputs went crazy ......where are the extra combines going to come from , let alone the extra storage space needed ...................all government propaganda ..!
@@georgedoorley5628 Wouldn't matter anyways.. It will be all smoke and mirrors.. When this all settles down again, they will be back to doing deals abroad for cereals, Just this time they will offer out a few grants here and there to make it look like they have turned a corner and are supporting there own.. They just cant help themselves when theres a sniff of getting something cheaper elsewhere.. Ruined the sugarbeet industry the very same..
Thank you Harry, I hope the public with no farming experience watch these videos you share your knowledge so well.
I remember this from 70 summers:
‘People are hostile to changes in the landscape (arable) when they have full bellies and are friendly to them when they are short of food, knowing you will be growing food where the hedges were’
It basically said that after ww2 where we had an agricultural boom, the public wasn’t so keen on caring for the environment when they were starving. As soon as the population had a better quality of life and could eat themselves fat, only then did they care about the farmer trying to make bigger and more efficient fields
Agreed.Also we’re a pain driving tractors on the road ,until it snows ,floods or someone just wants a tow and then we’re saints.
@@davidedge2189agreed, there’s no support for farmers. So I come from a farming family and so these are all accounts from my dad because we packed up before I really got into it and he would receive abuse from drivers, our tractors and implements got hit several times, local ‘caravan dwellers’ setting fires stealing and the sort, abuse from locals for cutting hedges so we could see over them properly, trespass from dog walkers just to name a few. All that stress and frustration to make minimal income and we weren’t even a small farm on bad soil or anything like that and we were not really making an income but yet people have the mindset of rich farmers killing the planet when it couldn’t be further from the truth
Thank you Judy Hobson for advising Olly to make RUclips videos 2 years ago!
I’m a retired auditing Manager - originally time served Electrician, just have a love of farming and own several vintage tractors!
I have submitted a Freedom of Information Act Request to DEFRA asking on what basis and what evidence was used by George Eustice in his claim that we don't need any artificial fertilizer as there is sufficient muck and digestate available within the UK. Another point I think they may have overlooked is the cost of hauling muck from mainly livestock areas to arable areas!!
Well done Jeremy, I admire your ability to act.
For 10 years now I have reacted to every ongoing application to build on grade 1 arable land in my village, sadly they are 'steam rollering' ahead with x2 large housing developments and all false promises made. Plenty of local brownfield sites have been overlooked. Sad thing indeed!
Don't look at the pigeons as crop thieves. Look at them as food...
not a lot on a pigeon apart from the brest meat ............... been a while since i had one ...!
City boys are in love with imported everything, including food, and the fees and commissions associated with the trade deals.
The UK Government need to put a complete stop to allowing Councils to allow developers permission to build on farm land. This practice needs outlawed very quickly.
how else are we supposed to house the imports?
The government love building as it is a easy way to get people in jobs and most of the developers are back pocket money friends of theirs and when they show them the reddies the government get all excited and tick the yes to build box.
The government tell them they have to gave plenty of land ready to build on , we need to go back to a population of 56 million tops not 76 as we must have. They will tell you 67 that's only what they know about .
If only the UK had a massive potash resource which could be mined at low cost and without the need for gas to produce it. Oh, we have. Shame the government (or is it Carrie) choose not to support it.
Our government has no idea about food security. As a retired farmer I just cannot understand why productive farmland is being used for housing and, worst of all, new roads. When we're traveling around you see acres of brown field sites laying empty, build on these, and put up with the cost of clearing them, and not productive farm land. How can it be right that some farmers can put acres down to growing TREES ,as a local chap here has done , just for the subsidy, and don't get me on to solar farms with their total waste of good farmland that should be used for edible crops. I know some farmers will not like what I've said but our job is not only to look after the countryside but to supply food. God help us if the countries that we've become reliant on stop supplying us, just think about it.
You honestly can't understand why houses might need to be built? The UK has a steadily growing population. Where will people live? It's never going to be possible for the UK to produce enough food to feed itself unless you cull a third of the population.
There are bigger problems than feeding our population, like the planet that we live on dying. We’ve already destroyed most of the habitats for other species, it’s about time we put them over us. We need to reduce our population, live sustainably, and stop thinking that the bees and birds will always be around no matter how much we rape the land for everything it can give.
@@kip8790 I take it you're not a farmer then?
What is your particular line of expertise?
@@kip8790 Is this the Royal we Kip?
I can almost guarantee that you have never worked on a farm, or is even aware of any practice that happens on farm?
To pass opinion and comment is absolutely fine. To randomly make a statement placed without science is propaganda. Propaganda is what is taught by unscrupulous lecturers and professors that offer worthless degrees at De Shiteford University.
Those that can't achieve. Teach others and think that they are, "experts".
@@martinhambleton5076 Martin, have you slipped of the back of your tractor and drilled yourself? Either way you can keep your head buried and call it propaganda if you like I don’t really care😂😂
So nice to see green and plants growing in the ground as I look outside and see (hopefully the last) snowstorm of this winter, here in Canada. Thanks Harry!
It’s so important that we aim to produce more food than we need. We can give surpluses to needy countries or trade for exotic foods that are difficult to grow here.
They should stop using foad to make nonsense junk like BAGELS and SUGAR COOKIES.
Solves obesity crisis and food security in one.
We simply cannot produce surplus food when we have 68 million mouths to feed.
Very interesting, very elegant fence and craftmanship. Agree food for the country is critical.
Thanks Harry, another great video that highlights the difficulties faced by our farming community. Successive governments have not focused on food security and it takes a tragic event like the Russian invasion of Ukraine and/or the pandemic to highlight the risks. Thanks for adding this into your narrative…… only thing missing was a bit of Stanley….!
Grow trees on the 'rough upland areas' never on arable fields. As a Cornish farmer Eustace should know what to do.
There's nothing like a war to provide an excuse for suppliers to up their prices.
I see crude has come down so fuel is bound to come down tomorrow!! Just one big RIP off the world still regards us as emerald island.
War and fertiliser prices aside, that fence is beautiful ,lovely thing to see a man do his craft right 👌
Pigeons are always a nuisance. Just when you think they have missed you, down they come in huge numbers. They do so much damage in a very short time. Your wheat looks good though. The estate fencing is wonderful. Such a clever and talented man, but I don’t envy the painting!
I’ve been in forestry for a long time planting trees and this rewilding nonsense
on arable land is no good, we need to grow more food you can’t eat trees
the government should be backing the farmers to do so and not importing so much
Also stop the rising costs of fuel and fertiliser etc. cheers Harry great video 👍🚜
By the way love the fencing real craftsman at work
I totally agree mate.
How would you tackle the wildlife population decline without rewilding? What do you do when we’ve killed all the pollinators off? Or do we just ignore that problem till it’s too late to do anything?
They shoukd rewild places where livestock is grasing in my opinion. Pop more trees on the pasture it will reduce flooding, improve humidity in the soil. The cows can wander in between them.
Maybe we should be growing more food and not building more houses on farm land.
Very informative, with a light touch. Thank you, Harry. And the fencing is magnificent!
Absolutely agree. We should do everything we can to be self sufficient. We should also start to grow our own veg in our gardens.
I've retired to Vietnam and we grow greens, and lots of different fruits, some are so prolific it's embarrassing, during C19 lockdown my wife was allowed to shop in the village one morning per week. To keep us in veg we swapped our fruit with neighbors and not only were we well fed, we met lots of new friends, yes we couldn't recognize them because of masks. Foodstuffs were washed at the gate using rubber gloves and lots of spray. Whether we were lucky or our safety method worked. who knows but were here. Neighbors still come by and I've started a Pick your own scheme, in exchange for a few beers. But no beers until thieve finished climbing ladders.
@@TheByard great name.
I know about farming, and gardening, without a third of an acre of garden, it is not possible to grow anything like enough food.
Wheat cannot be grown, so you still need to buy bread, butter, cheese, beef, pork, lamb.
@@ladygardener100 in a crisis like WW II growing your own veg was essential for survival. The Ministry of Food advised everyone who had a garden to grow their own. You might not have meat etc but a harvest of root and other veg can make the difference between survival and starvation. Surely thats worth doing? Meat etc was rationed and it is not essential to basic survival if you can supplement it with home grown veg.
I quite agree with your stance on things Harry the farmland needs to be farmed not re-wilded. I don't see many of the government members with large houses dedicating areas of their huge estates to be used for tree planting or wild flower meadows.
Thanks Harry for your common sense. Great video.
Harry, The local temple to us has sent a container of donated clothes, I though it would be the throw outs but no people went out and bought new, kids clothes bundles include a toy and some sweets. They did the same thing for flood victims at home and escorted the trucks right to the people in need. The compassion here is wonderful and to think the world was worried about North Vietnam.
The problem with the UK is that tories are corrupt and labour is incompetent. These these two bunch, the whole country is being screwed.
Good video … keep it up.
Keep the vids coming Harry - I was brought up on a farm and am from a farming family (as is the wife), Alas no farms now so I make do with a vintage JDeere and watching your channel 👍
Max may I ask what area you are in ? I am looking for a farming partner in Wiltshire
@@ljd8520 Bravo.
Fantastic video Harry
That fence is a thing of beauty. Really well made.
Nice one Harry another great video explaining to the general public who are interested how our custodians of the land face different situations and government legislation which a brick wall tends to spring up causing simple operations to be slowed down and impossible methods to be adered to.our farmers need to be supported more for basic need FOOD !!!!!!!
Brexit, Covid, War, reduction in farm land...will we ever see an end to all this? I really fear a major global collapse is looming as we, the people, simply cannot sustain this ever increasing cost of living.
Its good that it's happening because the longer we push it out the worse it will be
The collapse is basically here
The new gate and fence look beautiful but been hung backwards. The latch-side and the hinge-side should be reversed so that the brace extends upwards and outwards from the bottom hinge.
I previously mentioned in comments, that I can still identify many acres of farmland in Somerset that grew corn during ww2. Since then they have all remained fallow or in use for horseyculture. Of course those were the days of binders and thrashing machines and smaller gates for access.The dairy cows have disappeared and few sheep evident. But who can deny that suitable land that can be identified for cereal production should not be brought back into use and fast.
Thank you for guiding our thoughts in this situation. I’m not a farmer but feel we learn so much from your films. I just hope we somehow survive all the effects caused by that mad,an and his followers. Stay safe. Richard 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🙂
Stone Waller and now this chap. Some massively skilled people you’ve found there Harry!
Those sloping ends on the fence are beautiful
Pigeons...EAT THEM! ...Delicious
Let's hope DEFRA and the whole Government in fact, actually take notice of this wake up call and not hit the snooze button as usual. We've just got to make better use of our arable land and, at least, cut back our dependency on foreign produce. Well, what can you say about the Ukranian farmers. If that isn't bravery I don't know what is. They obviously realise nature waits for no one and turning tail and running isn't an option.
Looks like Harry planting more wheat a good idea,I’ve just watched again old tv series War Time Farm ,the country had to grow far more ,we don’t seem to learn .!
They didn't want the leaves by the road, because of contamination from the traffic!
Thanks Harry for sharing this channel. I find that following your progress gives an amazing insight into modern farming. Farmers have had to become economic and financial experts. This Ukranian war is nothing but bad for the world and needs to stop. One can't imagine how Russia can end up profiting from what they are doing.
That fence work is fantastic. The end quadrant, spot on. Great to see your obvious appreciation of his skills
When will our government learn, if not now, then probably never! We must become self sufficient (or as near as possible) in food and energy. Farming is key, and sacrificing good land to development (housing, roads, warehousing, HS2 etc) and daft solar farms is utterly ridiculous. Especially when thousands of acres of warehouse roofs have no panels on! We really should be eating more locally and seasonally, supporting our farming industry. Much more environmentally friendly to do this than import such huge quantities.
Love the fencing, real craftsmanship. Not sure if people realise how much farmers contribute to the look of the rural environment!
You can put solar panels wherever you want however when there life is up they can only go to landfill. So what's the point ?
@@paulwainwright967 fair comment!
Great video Harry, love the handmade bespoke steel fence, outstanding work, regarding the price of food, we need the middle classes to go hungry for farmers to be acknowledged and appreciated, hopefully this happens soon and then it's a case of let them eat cake!
Hello folks, why did they not Galvanise the steel before the instalation , also the welds will start to rust , it will be a long and tiresome painting job now , and the posts are not cattle proof,
There’s no end to Ed Sheeran’s talents
We all support you Harry
Could not the pesky pigeons be converted into pigeon pie? Loved the informative nature of the video.
That’s what I was thinking! Shoot them and eat them. Pigeon breasts are a real delicious. Also gets rid of them rather than just move them temporarily to another field.
Surely if grain prices go up, Harry will get even richer!
$9 for a lettuce in New Zealand this week and petrol just hit 10$ a gallon,
Meanwhile you (as in UK residents) can go to shop and buy nz top quality meat cheaper than someone in New Zealand can
Me and the family always support the British farmers and there products.
Wouldn't say i was rich , but i spend a little extra £ a get good british produce .
Just casually browsing DEFRA blog today. Now nothing wrong here. I'm not a sexist misogynistic but can see leading articles on international women's day, women returners, apprenticeships. All well and good. I'm just off to do shopping and can see weekly food prices creeping up. Anyone at DEFRA got their eyes 👁️ on the ball ?
You need to ask some hunters come deal with the pigeons :) if I lived in the UK I would volunteer to help out
Now that’s a fence!!! Beautiful
they put in a FTA deal with NZ announced last week, so sadly no, they want the farming to happen some where else.
Worrying times for us all, the prices for everything is going up and where’s it going to stop. Fantastic fence, don’t envy him having to paint it all. I don’t suppose you can shoot the pigeons as they are close to the road, pest numbers seem to be on the up all over Britain 👍🏻🏴
Have you heard of polyhalite fertiliser? There is a massive reserve near Whitby. There is a mine being developed but the government would not give the British company a loan, so they had to sellout to anglo American. There is so much fertiliser there that the exports are worth 7% of the trade deficit. Government can magic up a trillion for covid but not a 100M for something productive.
This is one reason why manufacturing went abroad ( apart from greedy bosses ) why oh why didn't the British government over the years do away with business rates to start with ? Probably because they weren't getting a cut.
@@paulwainwright967
Those Boys in the HOME COUNTIES Don't care for the rest of the Country !!!!!!!!!!
Fence looking good.crops look 👀 like they will give you fantastic yields.👏🏴👍
Great video, if you'd like, me and my dad can come over and do some pigeon shooting for you
Your estate fencing looks fantastic, I’m also very envious of your HaHa!
Brilliant video Harry, your steel fence looks fantastic!
Keep the farm going - city people don't really understand the work it takes to get their loaf of bread!!
The Ukraines 🇺🇦 , I would not like to be a Russian. Total respect. Harry what the plan to manage fertilizer next year
Scary how prices of fertiliser are shooting up and ask is it sustainable for farming to continue in the present guise? And isn’t it time to look back to our farming past and look at mixed farming and incorporating animal waste back into the ground and not relying on petrochemical fertiliser?
Farming is awfully different to when I was in the industry and I question why Governments no matter the colour have allowed a Country to become so dependant on outside supplies when you consider the calamities that WW2 brought. Wasn’t lessons learnt then? Or has the need for globalisation been too much in the forefront of Governments minds rather than seeing the mistakes of the past?
Haphazard questions that I don’t think can be answered and I applaud you for giving an unbiased view of farming today and long May it continue
Very interesting Harry , first time I have watched your Chanel, I am not a farmer but I do love the countryside . I can’t understand why we don’t grow all are food in the Uk 🤔seems madness to ship food around the world, food that we can grow in are own country.
thanks so much for this Harry. I wish that this sort of information was more mainstream - part of a more honest and complete news article, as I am sure a lot of people see the price of grains going up and think framers are going to "make hay while the sun shines" if you pardon the pun, where as in reality your farming costs (fertiliser etc) are going up exponentially so if anything farmers are worse off not better. Keep up the fantastic videos Harry and stay safe
Yes , i've noticed recently that all the " anti - cow - fart - folks " have suddenly gone quiet ......
not over here ....................
Super informative as always and living on a farm myself a perfect echo for what I see going on around me - including flocks of wood pigeons!
Glad you're keeping ythe estate fencing away from the trees, rode past a lot yesterday that had been taken out by fallen trees
My husband is a farmer and haulier. He is extremely worried about the price of fertiliser and diesel of course. Even the price of a lorry wheel has doubled in a year. Very worrying times!
Harry this is fantastic 👏 you are teaching me so much.
Love the new fence , really like the end curve, and yes the gate is a really nice touch too. Those fert prices are going to lead to grain shortages , who can afford to farm in this economic time
Farmers have tonnes of commonsense - the opposite of most of our MPs unfortunately.
Did you ever do the follow up video on the soil and carbon etc results . Was interesting what you had noticed with baled fields, to the chopped ones . Maybe I missed it ?
I love the unbridled joy of craftsman made steelwork……. I’ve always done similar on a smaller scale for work and home……. routinely investing in hand crafted infrastructure that will vastly outlive me…. which begs the question, Why ?
I imagine when we are poking around our historic country with its ancient artefacts and buildings, we are viewing the legacy of like minded souls…… creating a legacy to reach down the ages. 🙂
Another great video has always harry 👍
You all must understand WHY the governments around the world allow instance price increases on fuel..
Tax.
64% of a litre cost is TAX..
So if it increases by 10p per litre
Bang
6:4p more tax for the government
It’s exactly the same on heating fuels !!!
All of our goods have VAT SO INCREASES in goods more VAT
Wake up..
The fuel companies have the grief
The governments make the taxes
Everyone should have a vegetable garden if you have any space whatsoever. Farmers like Harry are not going to be able to go organic but you can. Three tonnes of horse manure is a lot more feasible for individuals than thousands of tonnes for industrial level farming.
You can get top yields with just compost, no need for artificial fertilisers/pesticides when you grow for yourself and can micromanage everything. If you get started now (bit late this year but better than never), you can probably make your money back when food goes up 50% next harvest.
that fence is brilliant. I'm jealous.
so much for rewilding! Get some corn planted! Get the shooters in for pigeons, then open a pop up restaurant!
The fencing is a work of art and can't wait to see it painted.
How wonderful to see proper fencing, a work of art Harry.
Good to see you don't use blast canons to scare off the birds. I used to live next to a field where a farmer did this all day long. Scared me off as well as the pigeons. Amazed they're legal tbh. Price hikes... W.E.F's agenda is full swing! Rant over! 😏
He did say he was going to have to put one at one point, and that the neighbors would not be happy, frankly if people don't like the sounds of the country they might want to evaluate their life choices.
I live in a cottage about the width of a road from farm building where the cows make a lot of noise when their calves are taken off them, that is day and night, also I'm not that far from a military range where the tanks and artillery and machine-gun fire can go on till late evening. as they are doing at this very min. Not that I'm not sympathetic to your situation. but it could be worse, at least you don't have a live-firing military range down the road. :) Best wishes.
He literally said in the video he's going to use them.
Bravo for making such a nice looking fence, nice to see a young lad with great craft skills and attention to detail.
Oh my goodness harry I didn't realize your garage was not your only RUclips adventure. Very informative definitely subbed!
Love the fence, the gates and the end "curves". We have a few sections in our village and some have been there for 60/70 years.
We farm on the london green belt, and we've had over 100 acres of tenanted land taken away by the council for tree planting. Apparently to increase public access and reduce "flooding" although not sure where! We fought the food security/food miles case but they didn't care. Its all about money and green virtue signalling, they've now spent millions of public money on this, miles of deer fencing and footpaths, there are parks all around us and most of the time they're desolate apart from dog walkers. All that and it will give nothing back that wasn't in the area already. I wonder how many Ukrainian refugees that 100 acres could have fed! I don't think things will change either, this is a government who is wilfully strangling our industry.
Isn't it ironic that the very reason we had subsidies in the first place is now actually happening while they phase them out. They may live to regret it.
You and all farmers have my vote. If there's anymore we can do let us know. I always try to buy British and I get the feeling since Brexit most of my circle of friends feel the same way.
Excellent video have to agree with alot of the comments below it's shocking what's happening in Ukraine and it looks like we will all feel the aftereffects amazing fence by the way👍
Thank you
Back to dig for Britain 🤙
Fascinating work one the farm Harry . The fence guy is ace 👍
Great video, love the skill that’s involved with the fencing