Hi Harry we've been direct drill for 25 years on our farm here in Australia as with most of Australia. My farms soils range from brown loams to heavy cracking clays. I haven't removed crop residues for a long time and my observation is the less you work the soil the softer and more productive it gets with less requirements for nitrogen. However slugs are a major issue and baiting is becoming the norm.
I'm surprised how interesting I find the Farm videos, Harry. I've always know farming is a risky business but I never realized how complex it is, how many decisions have to be made (often without much hard information), and how interdependent all the factor and variables are. I feel like we're just starting a new season of a dramatic mini-series. Will the oil seed rape come up? Will Harry successfully battle the slugs? How will the new wheat variety do? And, always lurking in the background, what surprises will DEFRA spring on the farmers? Stay tuned!
@@jukeseyable The theme throughout many of Harry's videos has been how the government are increasingly trying to put land out of crop production. That even in this time of high food prices caused by feared of losses in Ukraine and Russia, this government still isn't reacting to the current situation. They'd rather grow weeds than food. So what is the answer when you have a government that is absolutely deaf to the needs of the country?
I don't know what it is, but I find these videos almost like a therapy after an office day. Every detail, all the complexity (and weather lottery) is so interesting and calming to watch!
Blackberries got a lot of burn here (inland southern NL) on the 40degrees days. I grow some classic american thornless varieties for jam in my yard. Still an average year though. 2020 and 2018 were the good years. 2021 bad, fungus got them all, and the sprouts were less vigorous which together with the burn.makes this year an average one.
Mr. Metcalfe, please keep doing the drone shots when you're using your machinery, you can really get a sense of scale and precision. It's one thing to see you talk about the accuracy of it all while you're in the cab of your tractor, but these drone shots really do it justice. Please keep up the great work. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, your enthusiasm, your farm, and a special thanks as always to Mrs. M for the exemplary camera work. 👍
This guy is brilliant, Harry dug up a baby oilseed rape plant out of the ground, examined it with not a little satisfaction and replanted it as if on gardeners world, just brilliant!
Harry it's great to see you tackling direct drilling (canola), we in Australia have done the same for over 20 years and I expect you'll experience the same germination/emergence as we do, the moisture retained by the stubble will kick the oilseed rape up quicker than bare soil under marginal moisture conditions. At the same time your soil structure is less disturbed giving better root penetration and moisture wicking. Try to leave the stubble on top as it will use up some of your soil N feeding the microbes to break it down, good luck! Loving your youtube channel from Down Under! Cheers, Wal.
I find this very interesting. I don't know much about farming but live in a farming area. I didn't know ploughing was actually detrimental. here they add sand and certainly pig fertiliser to the soil.
@@geoffwoodgate7450 it’s not always bad - there are some soils that need to be turned over to grow anything edible. Now there are some that would say those soils should go back to the wild grasslands etc that they were before humans cultivated them, but nonetheless for now they need to be turned. For example the soils in the northern Midwest of the US.
@@ep1981 every time you crop, your taking away nutrients from the soil. And you can only turn soul so many times before you need to go deeper to bring up nutrients. Turning soul is always damaging even if you fertilise.
@@riamriam6758 Agreed, but that doesn't change the fact that some very productive farming areas in the world can only be productively farmed if the soil is turned and fertilised. I'm a huge advocate of no-till where it's possible, but there are lots of places where it's not.
There’s a farmer where I live and he’s got his field preparation sorted. Every year he hosts a ploughing match. A lot of very serious people with vintage tractors and agricultural machinery turn up, pay to enter the competition and plough his fields for him. Easy work for the farmer.
No, and I’ll freely admit it. I live in rural part of Kent and watch these videos to provide me with knowledge about the arable land around me. It seems a good idea to me but feel free to help my education. Perhaps in a less smug manner.
I spoke to a ploughing match organiser near here who said that after all the vintage tractors have scratched the surface they plough the who thing again with modern machinery as it ploughs much deeper than the vintage stuff...
As a life long country lad, interesting video Harry, I haven't seen anyone properly plough for years. Blackberries as you say everywhere and yet we are the only family that I know who picks them. Especially on a wholesale scale! Delicious, basically organic, free-range and FREE !☺👍
Please more oilseed followup videos! we have just been drilling ours with a Carrier mounted with a biodrill from väderstad in verry simular konditions. Local: the south of Sweden. Also, thank you Harry for the inspiration and wisdom!
It just dropped about 30 mm around Le Mans in 1 day…. Everything was almost toasted let’s hope for more rainy days and not just showers. Apparently the sweetcorn crops are not so well this year. Here in France they are sometimes still ploughing fields but I see it less and less. God bless the farming community for the hardwork they are doing
Have you just assumed the gender of that Oil Seed plant LOL? Thanks for all your videos. Subscriber - thank you for all your information about the farm. Hope it goes well for this coming year. The future is Blackberries...
This is so informative,especially if you live in a rural area. Living next to a farm you see the machines setting off and returning but have no idea what they are doing.It's like living next to a pottery but never seeing how they make a cup. Thankyou.
Congrats on the nearly 110K subs. Said it once twice three times a lady. Harry is the dog's nuts. Needs to be PM right now with Clarkson as his ambassador 😂😂😂😂
I knew nothing about farming but I find these videos very interesting. I am traveling through France atm and I look at very dry corn fields wondering why they haven't been harvested, maybe moisture content? I'm learning :)
We’ve noticed the crazy blackberry harvest. And had exactly the same question: why are the birds not taking them? We get lots of smaller garden birds here, but BlackBerrys look untouched.
marvellous, the enthusiasm for a single germinated OSR seed, giving such an optimistic outlook for whole crop. 'crops fail, animals ail', farmer's mantra.
Fascinating as always Harry….I fear that I might be more interested in your work that a Road Test of SHMEE’s Zenvo….we are becoming armchair farmers!!!😎😎😎😎😀😀😀😀
Sounds like your autumn is a month late, just like our spring is a month late here in South Africa. The deserts daisy's that flower during August on the west coast are only doing it now. Also we had snow during August which is usually seen during July. A late season and drought has been a disruption in the UK. Enjoyed this video.
Harry, fascinating stuff from a very dry Cotswolds. Direct drilling into stubble has been with us Downunder for a long time now, maybe because our crops more sparse, but it works and retains moisture, less weeds and better soil health too. Many benefits. I’ve been meaning to ask about why you don’t use silos at all for grain storage and bulk handling. Maybe it’s for aesthetic reasons and heritage rules? But it seems the way in the old world to store grain in sheds still.
I'm not a farmer but my guess about grain sheds v silos would be lack of space and the fact that you already have an old building in the farmyard so why not bung the grain in there? After the grain has been sold you have machinery storage for the winter. Also it's nearly impossible to build anything in this country without a million planning complaints from worthy historians, council jobsworths and NIMBYs (not in my back yard)!
Amazing how much farming moves on 🤔 I remember when fields were ploughed . The local wheat fields were cut and bailed and the stubble seemed to sit there for ages .When usually the farmer has the ground worked over and re seeded 🤔thought he’s leaving it late this year only to see this week little green shoots appearing in lines this week,turns out it’s been direct drilled. Next to no ground disturbance 👍and still the remains of the wheat harvest for the wild birds. 👍Brilliant 👍 as Paul Whitehouse would say 😀
Somehow I like your farm channel better than your car channel. I'm always interested to learn more about the technical realities of agriculture but it's not often presented in a manner digestible to me. Thanks for creating this channel and explaining things so well. And you weren't lying, you really are a farmer now. Respect.
Harry - your gift is to completely absorb the viewer in the almost tranquil world of farming. Sadly its anything but that but the warmth of your personality does you credit as that's a good method of stress relief. Maybe you should pay the rainmaker a bit more next time!
Just trying to grow a little osr this year after the disaster of 2 years ago .First field came up in 5 days!! Let's hope it keeps growing well. Great update always a pleasure too watch .Thanks.
Thanks for another enjoyable video Harry. As others have mentioned,it's so good to come home after another (s$it) day at work and find your videos so relaxing (albeit, the lack of rain may not be so relaxing for you!). Many congrats on the 100K subscribers. Deserved!
We have a barley stubble field where I walk the dog. Casual observation... straw was chopped behind the combine during the hot dry spell. Despite the dry weather there was sufficient moisture in the soil to allow the volunteers to germinate. This then had a slight rain (unknown quantity, not much) It appeared that the uncultivated straw residue was sufficient to hold that moisture, and or provide some sun cover to get a seed around three inches tall, with a healthy green to it. We have since had some good rains which has allowed other volunteers to get established and get into the normal post harvest growth.
Harry, blackberry is a noxious weed here in Western Oregon. It grows like the clappers. Our typical summer is very like what you've had in England this year, warm to hot, sunny, and very dry. We can't control it.
Yeah, thanks to the Old Country twats that planted blackberry in New Zealand in the 1850's so they could "feel at home" It is now a serious pest plant....along with gorse and broom...ditto reasons. Not to mention rabbits, hares, stoats, weasels and hedgehogs....
Great video especially the game of spot the OSR plant. I’ve been in east Suffolk right on the coast for the last two months and there has been no rain for about three months at least. I dread to think what arable farmers without irrigation are doing. There’s been several fires in fields as well as on the heathland. Everywhere is brown. I watched a video of I Farm we Farm today and it gave me quite a shock to see all that green grass
Harry’s Farm deserves a lot more subscriptions, this stuff is so interesting, is great to see low or no tilling we seem to be learning lessons and treating nature better 😎.
Glad to see you’ve got a good tilth , I was direct drilling after the 76 drought, when it rained and rained , farmers couldn’t plough so they had us in withBettison 3D drills , but we couldn’t create a tilth, and the seed rotted in the slits, it put direct drilling back quite a few years !
Not that it matters on a huge farm, but my dad always told me that a young seed should only ever be handled by a leaf, never by the stem. A crushed leaf soon recovers, but a squashed stem is often fatal. He likened it to the difference between picking up a toddler gently by the arms, and hoicking her off the ground one-handed by the neck. 🤭
Love the min-till/direct drill ethos. Turning soil isn't just bad for the worms but it puts all the CO2 back in the atmosphere. Cutting the straw will surely benefit the next crop and discourage pests. Sight nitrogen input too?
Will be interesting to see if the hot summer is followed by a warm or cold winter… I guess a grain shed upgrade would be nice to remove all those supporting columns…
Always massively informative. I really appreciate the detail in the numbers. Balancing input costs with potential yield and profits. It’s a bit like another Cotswold farmer on the telly but without the hamming up to the camera.
Congratulations at hitting 100k subs! I love watching your videos. I'd love to be a farmer (though I want to farm beef) but it's a world away from me, however I feel like I'm just meeting up with someone at the pub being told what's happening on your farm. Look forward to the Defender video and hope that the rain is plentiful! Lord knows we all need it!
Hi Harry as always your videos on the farm are superb, have you ever thought about doing a video on Vermin control (if you have any that is) as your farm always looks fantastically well kept and clean.
The recent rain showers have been most welcome for gardeners and allotment holders down here in Dorset too, after this period of drought. There was a river running down my road last night, and for entertainment some thunder and lightening.
Don't worry Harry , the drought will come to an end just as it did in Australia in 2020. 2019 was very dry , bush fires everywhere in summer 19/20...then the rains started , and now we have had 2 years of floods in some areas. Australian agricultural production is now at record highs.
We have all been saying the same in highland Scotland, never seen so many Brambles and very large juicy brambles, all our thickets are "glowing " black with the volume of berries, same with rowan, hope not like the old wives tales, that such heavy berry cropping bodes for a vey harsh winter, nature preparing the animals for a hard time.
Thankfully the forecast is for unsettled weather even in south east UK. I'm in western Ireland and the rain has started very slowly here this evening. GO plant!!!! Dunno about the oilseed rape as you have the beetle problem this time of year.
Really enjoy your channels. My grandfather plowed with a team of mules in southern Georgia (U. S.). I can remember him talking about getting his first John Deere. I wonder what he would think about all the tech in farming today.
slightly better here in cornwall , but the field next to me has only had one silage cut in the spring and thats it ;;;; only slight greening up with very little growth .
Hi Harry we've been direct drill for 25 years on our farm here in Australia as with most of Australia. My farms soils range from brown loams to heavy cracking clays. I haven't removed crop residues for a long time and my observation is the less you work the soil the softer and more productive it gets with less requirements for nitrogen. However slugs are a major issue and baiting is becoming the norm.
I'm surprised how interesting I find the Farm videos, Harry. I've always know farming is a risky business but I never realized how complex it is, how many decisions have to be made (often without much hard information), and how interdependent all the factor and variables are. I feel like we're just starting a new season of a dramatic mini-series. Will the oil seed rape come up? Will Harry successfully battle the slugs? How will the new wheat variety do? And, always lurking in the background, what surprises will DEFRA spring on the farmers? Stay tuned!
I feel this should have been a series on Amazon... ;-)
@@johnsim3722 they might dramatize the heck out of it and lose all the education 😁
They have deep roots that tap into the deeper moisture.
The simple truth is , without food you would be dead, seems sensible to pay a bit of attention
@@jukeseyable The theme throughout many of Harry's videos has been how the government are increasingly trying to put land out of crop production. That even in this time of high food prices caused by feared of losses in Ukraine and Russia, this government still isn't reacting to the current situation. They'd rather grow weeds than food. So what is the answer when you have a government that is absolutely deaf to the needs of the country?
Harry never disappoints but there's an extra bounce in his step on this video - great enthusiasm.
Probably grain and UA-cam money just landed!
I don't know what it is, but I find these videos almost like a therapy after an office day. Every detail, all the complexity (and weather lottery) is so interesting and calming to watch!
Who'd have thought farming is so interesting. Can't wait for this seasons Clarkson's farm (but Harry is the original and the best).
I always find it perplexing how things like blackberries and grapes do better in dry conditions when they're mostly water
I live in west Midlands suburbia and the blackberry bushes in our green areas are rampant this year, mad!
so does maize , catches the dew i think and just grows taller no matter what .
Blackberries were on cocaine this year
Our local vineyard say that 2022 is going to be an absolute classic, with a high yield of smallish but very intense grapes.
Blackberries got a lot of burn here (inland southern NL) on the 40degrees days. I grow some classic american thornless varieties for jam in my yard. Still an average year though. 2020 and 2018 were the good years. 2021 bad, fungus got them all, and the sprouts were less vigorous which together with the burn.makes this year an average one.
Mr. Metcalfe, please keep doing the drone shots when you're using your machinery, you can really get a sense of scale and precision. It's one thing to see you talk about the accuracy of it all while you're in the cab of your tractor, but these drone shots really do it justice. Please keep up the great work. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, your enthusiasm, your farm, and a special thanks as always to Mrs. M for the exemplary camera work. 👍
This guy is brilliant, Harry dug up a baby oilseed rape plant out of the ground, examined it with not a little satisfaction and replanted it as if on gardeners world, just brilliant!
This is the serious version of Clarksons Farm, and I love it ... thanks Harry !
This channel should be on prime time TV👍
Harry it's great to see you tackling direct drilling (canola), we in Australia have done the same for over 20 years and I expect you'll experience the same germination/emergence as we do, the moisture retained by the stubble will kick the oilseed rape up quicker than bare soil under marginal moisture conditions. At the same time your soil structure is less disturbed giving better root penetration and moisture wicking. Try to leave the stubble on top as it will use up some of your soil N feeding the microbes to break it down, good luck! Loving your youtube channel from Down Under! Cheers, Wal.
Great to see more and more farmers using the minimal till method. Soil is life
Unless you have a few hundred tons of dung to get rid of. Then , you really do have to plough it in.
I find this very interesting. I don't know much about farming but live in a farming area. I didn't know ploughing was actually detrimental. here they add sand and certainly pig fertiliser to the soil.
@@geoffwoodgate7450 it’s not always bad - there are some soils that need to be turned over to grow anything edible. Now there are some that would say those soils should go back to the wild grasslands etc that they were before humans cultivated them, but nonetheless for now they need to be turned. For example the soils in the northern Midwest of the US.
@@ep1981 every time you crop, your taking away nutrients from the soil. And you can only turn soul so many times before you need to go deeper to bring up nutrients. Turning soul is always damaging even if you fertilise.
@@riamriam6758 Agreed, but that doesn't change the fact that some very productive farming areas in the world can only be productively farmed if the soil is turned and fertilised. I'm a huge advocate of no-till where it's possible, but there are lots of places where it's not.
Congrats on 100k! I remember when farmers burned off their wheat stubble, not allowed anymore thankfully.
There’s a farmer where I live and he’s got his field preparation sorted. Every year he hosts a ploughing match. A lot of very serious people with vintage tractors and agricultural machinery turn up, pay to enter the competition and plough his fields for him. Easy work for the farmer.
I’m gonna go “no till”. - also I don’t have a tractor so. I don’t really have a choice ha ha
No, and I’ll freely admit it. I live in rural part of Kent and watch these videos to provide me with knowledge about the arable land around me. It seems a good idea to me but feel free to help my education. Perhaps in a less smug manner.
I spoke to a ploughing match organiser near here who said that after all the vintage tractors have scratched the surface they plough the who thing again with modern machinery as it ploughs much deeper than the vintage stuff...
As a life long country lad, interesting video Harry, I haven't seen anyone properly plough for years. Blackberries as you say everywhere and yet we are the only family that I know who picks them. Especially on a wholesale scale! Delicious, basically organic, free-range and FREE !☺👍
Please more oilseed followup videos! we have just been drilling ours with a Carrier mounted with a biodrill from väderstad in verry simular konditions. Local: the south of Sweden. Also, thank you Harry for the inspiration and wisdom!
It just dropped about 30 mm around Le Mans in 1 day…. Everything was almost toasted let’s hope for more rainy days and not just showers. Apparently the sweetcorn crops are not so well this year.
Here in France they are sometimes still ploughing fields but I see it less and less.
God bless the farming community for the hardwork they are doing
Absolutely loved this episode, as a gardener! We lost an entire courtyard of pots taling a holiday over the same fortnight, so we feel for you...
Have you just assumed the gender of that Oil Seed plant LOL? Thanks for all your videos. Subscriber - thank you for all your information about the farm. Hope it goes well for this coming year. The future is Blackberries...
It's a gender neutral seed
This is so informative,especially if you live in a rural area. Living next to a farm you see the machines setting off and returning but have no idea what they are doing.It's like living next to a pottery but never seeing how they make a cup. Thankyou.
Glenda, you have said exactly what I was thinking. And Harry got it all across in a way that was clear and instantly understandable. Andrew.
Somehow this most compelling, informative enjoyable... Came for the cars and stayed for the farming. :D
Congrats on the nearly 110K subs. Said it once twice three times a lady. Harry is the dog's nuts. Needs to be PM right now with Clarkson as his ambassador 😂😂😂😂
I can only wish you the the very best of luck for2023!
I knew nothing about farming but I find these videos very interesting. I am traveling through France atm and I look at very dry corn fields wondering why they haven't been harvested, maybe moisture content? I'm learning :)
Informative, interesting and entertaining. Great video as always.
Just discovered the channel. One film and I'm hooked. Really informative and accessible to all. Thanks for the effort. Good Luck
We’ve noticed the crazy blackberry harvest. And had exactly the same question: why are the birds not taking them? We get lots of smaller garden birds here, but BlackBerrys look untouched.
Birds don't like getting pricked any more than humans do.
Still plenty of food for birds yet due to good growing season of insects ect fruits are the autumn early winter food
marvellous, the enthusiasm for a single germinated OSR seed, giving such an optimistic outlook for whole crop.
'crops fail, animals ail', farmer's mantra.
I love this channel! Thank you Harry.
Fascinating as always Harry….I fear that I might be more interested in your work that a Road Test of SHMEE’s Zenvo….we are becoming armchair farmers!!!😎😎😎😎😀😀😀😀
Thanks for another informative video Harry. Looking forward to your next in-depth video on solar panels .
Great job 👌
Sounds like your autumn is a month late, just like our spring is a month late here in South Africa.
The deserts daisy's that flower during August on the west coast are only doing it now.
Also we had snow during August which is usually seen during July.
A late season and drought has been a disruption in the UK.
Enjoyed this video.
Thanks Harry for a really interesting video about modern farming by not ploughing
Harry, fascinating stuff from a very dry Cotswolds. Direct drilling into stubble has been with us Downunder for a long time now, maybe because our crops more sparse, but it works and retains moisture, less weeds and better soil health too. Many benefits. I’ve been meaning to ask about why you don’t use silos at all for grain storage and bulk handling. Maybe it’s for aesthetic reasons and heritage rules? But it seems the way in the old world to store grain in sheds still.
Maybe because Harry used the money the bank loaned him for a silo to start his EVO magazine, many a year ago now. What a legend. :)
I'm not a farmer but my guess about grain sheds v silos would be lack of space and the fact that you already have an old building in the farmyard so why not bung the grain in there? After the grain has been sold you have machinery storage for the winter.
Also it's nearly impossible to build anything in this country without a million planning complaints from worthy historians, council jobsworths and NIMBYs (not in my back yard)!
Love your videos, have been out of agriculture for 25 yrs soon and miss it , your videos keep me in the loop a little bit.
Keep up the good work
Fascinating stuff as always, particularly regards the reasons behind not deep ploughing any more. Blackberries have gone mental locally too.
Congrats on the 100k subscribers ! It's very interesting for us city dwellers
Amazing how much farming moves on 🤔 I remember when fields were ploughed . The local wheat fields were cut and bailed and the stubble seemed to sit there for ages .When usually the farmer has the ground worked over and re seeded 🤔thought he’s leaving it late this year only to see this week little green shoots appearing in lines this week,turns out it’s been direct drilled. Next to no ground disturbance 👍and still the remains of the wheat harvest for the wild birds. 👍Brilliant 👍 as Paul Whitehouse would say 😀
Glad the panels are finally on their way and look forward to the Metcalf folder coming out with the facts and figures!
Somehow I like your farm channel better than your car channel. I'm always interested to learn more about the technical realities of agriculture but it's not often presented in a manner digestible to me. Thanks for creating this channel and explaining things so well. And you weren't lying, you really are a farmer now. Respect.
2023 is going to be very tricky Harry… looking forward to seeing the updates
Harry - your gift is to completely absorb the viewer in the almost tranquil world of farming. Sadly its anything but that but the warmth of your personality does you credit as that's a good method of stress relief. Maybe you should pay the rainmaker a bit more next time!
Love this channel. Just starting a farm with no previous farming experience so I love learning from Harry Thanks for sharing
Just trying to grow a little osr this year after the disaster of 2 years ago .First field came up in 5 days!! Let's hope it keeps growing well. Great update always a pleasure too watch .Thanks.
Fascinating insight. I did wonder why ploughing has reduced. I am hooked.
Great video, congratulations on reaching the 100000 subscribers, you really deserve that milestone and your view number’s look great too.
Thanks for another enjoyable video Harry. As others have mentioned,it's so good to come home after another (s$it) day at work and find your videos so relaxing (albeit, the lack of rain may not be so relaxing for you!). Many congrats on the 100K subscribers. Deserved!
A lack of rain during the summer? who would have thought it? We had a week or two of heavy rain after the heatwave though didn't we?
Thanks Harry. Very Interesting.
I hope we get a costs, and profits vid this year too, keep up the good work
Thank you Harry for sharing and for growing our food, you farmers are very important people and i do appreciate you, may Yah (God) bless you & yours.
We have a barley stubble field where I walk the dog. Casual observation... straw was chopped behind the combine during the hot dry spell. Despite the dry weather there was sufficient moisture in the soil to allow the volunteers to germinate. This then had a slight rain (unknown quantity, not much) It appeared that the uncultivated straw residue was sufficient to hold that moisture, and or provide some sun cover to get a seed around three inches tall, with a healthy green to it. We have since had some good rains which has allowed other volunteers to get established and get into the normal post harvest growth.
Really interesting Harry, keep em coming!
Great video Harry.
Harry, blackberry is a noxious weed here in Western Oregon. It grows like the clappers. Our typical summer is very like what you've had in England this year, warm to hot, sunny, and very dry. We can't control it.
Yeah, thanks to the Old Country twats that planted blackberry in New Zealand in the 1850's so they could "feel at home"
It is now a serious pest plant....along with gorse and broom...ditto reasons.
Not to mention rabbits, hares, stoats, weasels and hedgehogs....
Great video especially the game of spot the OSR plant.
I’ve been in east Suffolk right on the coast for the last two months and there has been no rain for about three months at least. I dread to think what arable farmers without irrigation are doing. There’s been several fires in fields as well as on the heathland. Everywhere is brown. I watched a video of I Farm we Farm today and it gave me quite a shock to see all that green grass
Harry’s Farm deserves a lot more subscriptions, this stuff is so interesting, is great to see low or no tilling we seem to be learning lessons and treating nature better 😎.
I will never look at a seedling in the same light! Great stuff!
Loving the drone shots Harry!
Glad to see you’ve got a good tilth , I was direct drilling after the 76 drought, when it rained and rained , farmers couldn’t plough so they had us in withBettison 3D drills , but we couldn’t create a tilth, and the seed rotted in the slits, it put direct drilling back quite a few years !
Not that it matters on a huge farm, but my dad always told me that a young seed should only ever be handled by a leaf, never by the stem. A crushed leaf soon recovers, but a squashed stem is often fatal.
He likened it to the difference between picking up a toddler gently by the arms, and hoicking her off the ground one-handed by the neck. 🤭
fantastic as always
This is a wonderful video, Harry.
Very interesting. Thank you Harry.
Harry has a great voice!
Love the min-till/direct drill ethos. Turning soil isn't just bad for the worms but it puts all the CO2 back in the atmosphere.
Cutting the straw will surely benefit the next crop and discourage pests. Sight nitrogen input too?
Congratulations to 100k, amazing work!!!
Blackberries are unstoppable. After a nuclear apocalpse it would just be cockroaches and blackberries.
And crocodile’s
Love this channel. Harry is so good at explaining what’s occurring. I really look forward to seeing how it’s all going.
Will be interesting to see if the hot summer is followed by a warm or cold winter…
I guess a grain shed upgrade would be nice to remove all those supporting columns…
Thanks for sharing this beautiful VLOG 😍♥️🔥🌹
Super video, very clever in all that you do, thanks.
Absolutely brilliant video thoroughly enjoyed it keep up the amazing work looking forward to future videos
Solar will be interesting,as Harry mentioned few odd things happening?
Inform episode
Fantastic videos - farming explained to the total novice in such an engaging style - keep it up H !
Always massively informative. I really appreciate the detail in the numbers. Balancing input costs with potential yield and profits. It’s a bit like another Cotswold farmer on the telly but without the hamming up to the camera.
Harry love car videos. But I'm now drawn into watching the farm videos first so much work go's into growing crops. Keep them coming. Ta
Thank you Harry for your time to upload.
I keep learning and enjoying. Thank you Harry.
Absolutely fascinating as ever thank you so very much indeed harry ciao
Congratulations at hitting 100k subs! I love watching your videos. I'd love to be a farmer (though I want to farm beef) but it's a world away from me, however I feel like I'm just meeting up with someone at the pub being told what's happening on your farm. Look forward to the Defender video and hope that the rain is plentiful! Lord knows we all need it!
All the very best and bumper yeilds for 2023 excellent vlog 👍👍🚜🚜
Congrats on the 100k 👏
Hi Harry as always your videos on the farm are superb, have you ever thought about doing a video on Vermin control (if you have any that is) as your farm always looks fantastically well kept and clean.
In Australia if it doesn’t rain after a few weeks , they go in dry , bit hard on the bar and gear , but it goes in
Great stuff. Very informative to the bystander.
The recent rain showers have been most welcome for gardeners and allotment holders down here in Dorset too, after this period of drought. There was a river running down my road last night, and for entertainment some thunder and lightening.
Another great video
I'm surprised at the amount of rock in the field.
Harry, we need you on TV.
Don't worry Harry , the drought will come to an end just as it did in Australia in 2020.
2019 was very dry , bush fires everywhere in summer 19/20...then the rains started , and now we have had 2 years of floods in some areas.
Australian agricultural production is now at record highs.
Weird effect to having subscribed to Harry's Garage but now patiently waiting for a new Harry's Farm instead.
Most informative programme on the tube.
We have all been saying the same in highland Scotland, never seen so many Brambles and very large juicy brambles, all our thickets are "glowing " black with the volume of berries, same with rowan, hope not like the old wives tales, that such heavy berry cropping bodes for a vey harsh winter, nature preparing the animals for a hard time.
Fascinating, thanks Harry 👍
Thankfully the forecast is for unsettled weather even in south east UK. I'm in western Ireland and the rain has started very slowly here this evening. GO plant!!!! Dunno about the oilseed rape as you have the beetle problem this time of year.
Love your video's Brilliant many thanks.
I agree Harry, next week could make all the difference.
Really enjoy your channels. My grandfather plowed with a team of mules in southern Georgia (U. S.). I can remember him talking about getting his first John Deere. I wonder what he would think about all the tech in farming today.
slightly better here in cornwall , but the field next to me has only had one silage cut in the spring and thats it ;;;; only slight greening up with very little growth .