Man, harvest time is a pain. The pre-harvest work of sweeping floors in grain sheds , cleaning out and maintaining the combines and tractors, walking the fields to uproot wild oats (a huge pet peeve against some farms - some fields are an absolute state). The you have the harvest proper... an anxiety ridden period where the weather is make or break. You can be the best farmer, and have a stellar crop, but if the weather is against you; come harvest you have wheat etc with a 20+% moisture crop... And that doesnt take into account things like, say, the rear axal falling off the combine or other such fantastical issues... And then that more or less leads straight into the tilling and seeding in autumn. And you really need to do that before it gets too wet. (I have, much to my shame, gotten a tractor stuck before, in a wet field whilst rolling... :( )
Nice one Great insight into the past Farming nowadays is gone too intensive, everything been poisoned with too many chemicals Land been poisoned with too much slurry. We should learn from the old folk.
Thank you. My relatives have told me of the time when the old horse-drawn machines were being converted to being pulled by tractors. Good harvest to you, Oli.
Grandad lived into his 80's and my Father who was born 1911 lived to 85 and died of Farmers lung. Overall people were healthier in the countryside due to be diet compared to factory workers.
It's like some kind of steampunk reality watching this, it's a strange mix of old and new. You have the tractors and modern machinery but also hordes of people doing the labour that machines do now. I wonder how these people would see a hay bailer, modern combine, automatic drill with tractor GPS etc.
Thankyou again for your fabulous videos I have have enjoyed everyone so far… and watched many multiple times … it’s good to hear a less BBC take on farming for once! Or raging vegans lol
This type of farming is why the land has been worn out. For anyone interested in the permaculture methods of farming, you should check out Gabe Brown's book Dirt to Soil.
It is mono-culture and the overuse of chemical fertilizers that has worn out the soils. Combined with increased scales. In this video, they apply crop rotations combined with live stock grazing. But they don't apply no-till or cover cropping, the latter not very diverse at least. Gabe Brown has been no-tilling, rotating crops and cover cropping combined with livestock grazing since the 90s. He uses much more diverse cover crops, up to 14 different species. Brown does all that and at the same time getting off government subsidies. Government subsidies with their guaranteed prices keeps farmers in check and is a major reason why farming stays as it is with its monoculturs, for it forces them to use fertilizers and pesticides. Due to the high prices of these, farmers has low incomes. Only since inputs became really expensive, organic farmer became more profitable. However, many farmers can't make the switch that Brown made because they highly indebted themselves. Farming as Brown and others do, won't pay off immediately. Also, farmers are skeptical but Brown et al show that other ways are possible.
Min 3: saxons introduced 3 fields rotation by 5o century ad. 1 wheat, 1 corn 1 beans/peas. Corn and beans...were they american crops inteoduce from the 16 century onwards? What did they rotate for the previous 10 centuries?
Corn in this context, is I'd guess, Spring barley or oats. Corn also includes wheat. What is known as Corn in the Americas is known as Mazie (at least as a crop), and is not a typical crop. Broad beans are old world crops, and should not be confused with navy bean/haricot beans etc.
Kale being grown as a livestock feed. As it should be.
Kale is delicious especially fresh.
Markstammkohl😁 up to two meters high
Thank you for another interesting and enjoyable video.
Interesting video..hard work is never as tedious when u have company..farming can be a lonely job now..these men were hard and lean..no big bellies.
Love the horse powered elevator near the end. Never seen that before.
I went potato picking at half term as late as the mid 1960s. I even planted potatoes by hand when younger. A foot and a finger apart.
Man, harvest time is a pain. The pre-harvest work of sweeping floors in grain sheds , cleaning out and maintaining the combines and tractors, walking the fields to uproot wild oats (a huge pet peeve against some farms - some fields are an absolute state). The you have the harvest proper... an anxiety ridden period where the weather is make or break. You can be the best farmer, and have a stellar crop, but if the weather is against you; come harvest you have wheat etc with a 20+% moisture crop... And that doesnt take into account things like, say, the rear axal falling off the combine or other such fantastical issues...
And then that more or less leads straight into the tilling and seeding in autumn. And you really need to do that before it gets too wet. (I have, much to my shame, gotten a tractor stuck before, in a wet field whilst rolling... :( )
Nice one
Great insight into the past
Farming nowadays is gone too intensive, everything been poisoned with too many chemicals
Land been poisoned with too much slurry. We should learn from the old folk.
Thank you. My relatives have told me of the time when the old horse-drawn machines were being converted to being pulled by tractors.
Good harvest to you, Oli.
No wonder people didn’t live long after grafting like that. Thank goodness for mechanisation.
Grandad lived into his 80's and my Father who was born 1911 lived to 85 and died of Farmers lung. Overall people were healthier in the countryside due to be diet compared to factory workers.
Very interesting channel
It's like some kind of steampunk reality watching this, it's a strange mix of old and new. You have the tractors and modern machinery but also hordes of people doing the labour that machines do now. I wonder how these people would see a hay bailer, modern combine, automatic drill with tractor GPS etc.
Thankyou again for your fabulous videos I have have enjoyed everyone so far… and watched many multiple times … it’s good to hear a less BBC take on farming for once! Or raging vegans lol
Keep going king
This type of farming is why the land has been worn out. For anyone interested in the permaculture methods of farming, you should check out Gabe Brown's book Dirt to Soil.
It is mono-culture and the overuse of chemical fertilizers that has worn out the soils. Combined with increased scales. In this video, they apply crop rotations combined with live stock grazing. But they don't apply no-till or cover cropping, the latter not very diverse at least. Gabe Brown has been no-tilling, rotating crops and cover cropping combined with livestock grazing since the 90s. He uses much more diverse cover crops, up to 14 different species. Brown does all that and at the same time getting off government subsidies. Government subsidies with their guaranteed prices keeps farmers in check and is a major reason why farming stays as it is with its monoculturs, for it forces them to use fertilizers and pesticides. Due to the high prices of these, farmers has low incomes. Only since inputs became really expensive, organic farmer became more profitable. However, many farmers can't make the switch that Brown made because they highly indebted themselves. Farming as Brown and others do, won't pay off immediately. Also, farmers are skeptical but Brown et al show that other ways are possible.
The animation is very similar to Animal Farm
True😂
Min 3: saxons introduced 3 fields rotation by 5o century ad. 1 wheat, 1 corn 1 beans/peas.
Corn and beans...were they american crops inteoduce from the 16 century onwards? What did they rotate for the previous 10 centuries?
Fava beans and small grains in American English. I assume that's where you're from.
Corn in this context, is I'd guess, Spring barley or oats. Corn also includes wheat. What is known as Corn in the Americas is known as Mazie (at least as a crop), and is not a typical crop. Broad beans are old world crops, and should not be confused with navy bean/haricot beans etc.
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@@S_Eglingtonenglish not my country language, im european.
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My friend you need a posture repair. Get correct chair and sit straight.
How come the women don’t get to drive lol
They did. Woman's alliance. My granny had a license to drive a steam roller
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