Well done Andrew I really admire all your doing you are a inspiration and a great good man The best to you from Ireland The best of luck with the demonstration 🐅for Frankie
Thanks Nick, I’ll do a run through each plot and the final finish when it’s not so windy! We will do lots of assessments on seed, roots, above ground plants, yield and grain quality.
Another great video, lot of hard work and organising for all concerned especially you, be interesting the total value of drills and tractors, all the best for the demonstration, looking forward to the end result. Much appreciated. 👍
Hi Andrew. Thank you for the time & effort in producing this video. Thankfully I scrolled through the comments so I now know the reason for the pit at the edge of the field. I had been wondering what it was for & erroneously concluded it was for a latrine for the attendees 😂. But. Could you please spoon feed me as to the purpose of the event as a whole. Is it to establish the best seed drill as evidenced in a years time by the plot with the greatest yield? They all seem so technical & brilliant is there going to be such a dramatic difference? Who actually benefits from an experiment like this? Just genuinely fascinated. Thank you so much.
Thanks Darren, no the soil pit was not for attendees to relieve themselves!!! The aim of the day or the event was to see which drills would be able to plant seed in our difficult, sticky, clay soils because it’s very easy on sandy soils to plant crops without prior cultivation or soil movement but totally different on clay soils. We have to use less fuel in establishing crops to remain profitable and to help agriculture reduce our carbon footprint. There will be chance to sell carbon credits to other industries when we reduce our carbon footprint and become carbon negative. Some people have been direct drilling for a number of years usually that is on easy sandy soils but those who have tried clay soils say it takes upwards of 10 years for your crops to perform as well as they did when the soil was cultivated before planting the seed. So really the event was for us to plan for the future and try to remain profitable with all the issues around cost of production at the moment as well as provide other farmers with data to do the same.
Thanks for the update, was looking out for it last night, but can see you had a very busy day. Good to see the manufacturers / dealers putting a great deal of effort into what looks to be an excellent demonstration. Your soil pit looks 'challenging', very similar to land around here in West Suffolk. Hope the day stays dry for you and hopefully the wind might help dry the top a little. Looking forward to your next update.
Cheers Robert it was a brilliant day. A 15 min lunchtime heavy shower meant we had to change the afternoon plans and run it differently, you’ll see that in tonight’s video. The soil is not easy at all and exactly why I chose that field!
Hope the day goes well Andrew, I know you couldn't have every drill there but those conditions may have lent themselves to the triton drill, despite some comments about the drill, it's an interesting concept. Watching with interest.
We had a great day and as you’ve pointed out, I wanted other drills there but it just wasn’t possible to have more than 10 and everyone get something out the day. Manufacturers included.
That puma sounds the part! Is is a pree addblue and dpf model? Those emissions regs have strangled the lovely noises tractors used to make, two favourites of mine are the 6930 deere and the 3800 xerion. Lovely selection of drills 👍
Hope you all have a good day, good video to watch , be a day for the tine drills tommorrow looking at the field conditions shame it wasn't dryer. Are you drilling into over winter stubble ?
Hello Andrew, not long found your channel and enjoy your weekly waffle. Silly question may be but, whats the soil pit for in the field ? I've been out of farming 30 years
Thanks Gareth, the soil pit is to show everyone the difference from top soil to subsoil and drainage capabilities. It showed the visitors why I chose that field and how difficult a soil it is to deal with.
Well done Andrew I really admire all your doing you are a inspiration and a great good man The best to you from Ireland The best of luck with the demonstration 🐅for Frankie
Thanks Michael, we had a great day, 👍😃
Although not a farmer really enjoying updates and looking forward to you're thought on each set up Andrew 👍
Thanks Nick, I’ll do a run through each plot and the final finish when it’s not so windy! We will do lots of assessments on seed, roots, above ground plants, yield and grain quality.
Brilliant Video 👍
Thanks for the update Andrew hope everyone attending has a good day.
superb
Looking forward to seeing machines working.pity trident are not there
I wanted 5 more drills there but to run the event properly, there wasn’t time to do more than 10 machines.
Another great video, lot of hard work and organising for all concerned especially you, be interesting the total value of drills and tractors, all the best for the demonstration, looking forward to the end result. Much appreciated. 👍
Thanks Peter, was a great team effort with Agrii playing their part too. Should be some interesting results!
Hope you have a good day and the weather holds for you. Looking forward to videos from the day.
Hi Andrew. Thank you for the time & effort in producing this video. Thankfully I scrolled through the comments so I now know the reason for the pit at the edge of the field. I had been wondering what it was for & erroneously concluded it was for a latrine for the attendees 😂.
But. Could you please spoon feed me as to the purpose of the event as a whole. Is it to establish the best seed drill as evidenced in a years time by the plot with the greatest yield? They all seem so technical & brilliant is there going to be such a dramatic difference? Who actually benefits from an experiment like this? Just genuinely fascinated. Thank you so much.
Thanks Darren, no the soil pit was not for attendees to relieve themselves!!!
The aim of the day or the event was to see which drills would be able to plant seed in our difficult, sticky, clay soils because it’s very easy on sandy soils to plant crops without prior cultivation or soil movement but totally different on clay soils. We have to use less fuel in establishing crops to remain profitable and to help agriculture reduce our carbon footprint. There will be chance to sell carbon credits to other industries when we reduce our carbon footprint and become carbon negative. Some people have been direct drilling for a number of years usually that is on easy sandy soils but those who have tried clay soils say it takes upwards of 10 years for your crops to perform as well as they did when the soil was cultivated before planting the seed. So really the event was for us to plan for the future and try to remain profitable with all the issues around cost of production at the moment as well as provide other farmers with data to do the same.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard ...aah. I see. Thank you so much!!
Good luck with tomorrow Andrew, wish the weather could be better for you!
All the best Andrew with tomorrow and I will watching out for the Lives vids..
👍👍🤙🤙
I could t get the live vids to work and still can’t. ☹️
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard lol I seen the vids of it and looking like it was a great turnout & day.. 👏👏
Great update Mr Ward. Looking forward to the next.
Thanks John.
Thanks for the update, was looking out for it last night, but can see you had a very busy day. Good to see the manufacturers / dealers putting a great deal of effort into what looks to be an excellent demonstration. Your soil pit looks 'challenging', very similar to land around here in West Suffolk. Hope the day stays dry for you and hopefully the wind might help dry the top a little. Looking forward to your next update.
Cheers Robert it was a brilliant day. A 15 min lunchtime heavy shower meant we had to change the afternoon plans and run it differently, you’ll see that in tonight’s video. The soil is not easy at all and exactly why I chose that field!
I hope that the event is a great success Andrew. We have mix morning rain forecast in coastal East Norfolk I hope that you have a dry day
15 mins rain at lunch didn’t help, we had to change plans for the afternoon.
Looking forward to see how these drills perform in your challenging field. Very informative and enjoyable videos to watch as well 👍👍
Cheers Phil. 😃👍
Great video, thanks for the effort involved. Wish I'd considered travelling from Suffolk to attend now. Hope you're able to film plenty, good luck
You should of done, we had a very very good day.
Wow great video
Loved this preparation video. Have fun on the fields.
Thanks Angela, we had a fabulous day.
Hope the day goes well Andrew, I know you couldn't have every drill there but those conditions may have lent themselves to the triton drill, despite some comments about the drill, it's an interesting concept. Watching with interest.
We had a great day and as you’ve pointed out, I wanted other drills there but it just wasn’t possible to have more than 10 and everyone get something out the day. Manufacturers included.
That puma sounds the part! Is is a pree addblue and dpf model? Those emissions regs have strangled the lovely noises tractors used to make, two favourites of mine are the 6930 deere and the 3800 xerion. Lovely selection of drills 👍
It’s a cracking tractor and yes, pre as blue. 😃👍
Hope you all have a good day, good video to watch , be a day for the tine drills tommorrow looking at the field conditions shame it wasn't dryer. Are you drilling into over winter stubble ?
Yes, it was stubble, raked twice last summer / autumn and sprayed off 3 weeks ago.
Hello Andrew, not long found your channel and enjoy your weekly waffle. Silly question may be but, whats the soil pit for in the field ? I've been out of farming 30 years
Thanks Gareth, the soil pit is to show everyone the difference from top soil to subsoil and drainage capabilities. It showed the visitors why I chose that field and how difficult a soil it is to deal with.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Thank you, that makes sense now, soil profile
that was a million miles an hour
loads going on
Frankie may benefit from a shock collar . . . Drew has 1 on his Jack Russel
Too much going on for my age!! Frankie is getting better. I think I’m the one needing a shock collar to rein me in!!!!
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard I think you’re doing an amazing job - thankyou for sharing 👍
Andrew you should know you can never please an equine girl and there feed 🤣🤣. I have one my self
You have my utmost sympathy!!!
Working overtime tonight Andrew 👍🏻
Just a bit. That vid took 2 hours to load!!!!
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard well worth the wait from our prospective 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
What's the net value of those drills. Looking forward to the next video. Hopefully you get some nice weather.
I don’t know but a hefty sum. The 6m disc ones were £110,000 and tines about £70,000!!
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard hopefully the insurance policy is up to date.
They’re all gone now apart from one!
Have you got 150mm of topsoil in the soil pit?
Just about but that ‘topsoil’ is 50% clay, 40% silt, 20% sand.