Thank you Harry for these informative videos. You have a way of explaining your plight so much better than I could when I was farming. I have a T shirt and on it written.. FARMING.. The art of losing money while working 400 hours a month to feed people who think you are trying to kill them! Every farmer should wear one.

@benjones5819

8 ай бұрын

Exactly,,,my own sentiment entirely.

@philipwilson4025

8 ай бұрын

Were can I get the T-shirt

@Snoozzzzzze

8 ай бұрын

😄 It’s a real tragedy that he has to walk or cycle to get anywhere, can’t even afford diesel for the tractor. 😂

@MrJohnQCitizen

8 ай бұрын

Slugs friend or foe? I'm inundated with the feckers when collecting milk

@notrut

8 ай бұрын

True ... unlike the BBC's Countryfile.

I find this all intensely fascinating. I work with massive computer systems and I know that's baffling to many people but the amount of information farmers need to know is equally baffling to me. I know the world currently runs on computers but you can't eat them so I consider them a luxury. What farmers do is of absolutely vital importance.

@RichieReportsUK

8 ай бұрын

Which is why the UK needs to keep producing as much homegrown crops as possible, NOT give in to these worthless 'rewilding' schemes.

@wyndhamhewlett8223

8 ай бұрын

The World economic forum are running us!!!

@sianwarwick633

8 ай бұрын

Nice comparison

Another great video Harry. You are one of the best communicators in the business.

More Harry's farm please.

Always like these Harry’s farm videos, my window onto the farming life that goes on all around me 👍

@sianwarwick633

8 ай бұрын

I go to the local farming towns, and talk to people in shops about the farms. Everyone knows someone who farms in the small businesses of market towns

Thanks for the Chit Chat and Heavy Horses! Dogs and Ponies rule! Put more thatch on it.

I love the garage videos Harry, but get even more excited when the farm videos appear. You’re a legend mate.

The last ploughing contest my late dad took me to consisted mostly of cider and scrumpy tents and a truly terrifying welly-whanging competition. A fabulous day out!🙂

Agree, ploughing matches are great, and a lot of skill by the competitors. Harry, you should come to ireland next year for the National ploughing championships. Huge event and loads of machinery.

To plough or not to plough, that is the question. I'm fascinated to see which approach turns out to be the best in the long run.

Always a great and informative post, farming is never just for rural folk, it affects us all! Harry you do a wonderful job of keeping us informed of how the farming industry works.........and the garage is pretty sweet too!!

Always so informative. Well done. The government as well as other farmers should pay particular attention to what you have to say.

Thank you for discussing Roundup, plus all the other topics...🇺🇸 👍☕

I'm no farmer....but I find your explanation of the wheat size/weight....and planting very interesting....it's not just chuck the seed out and watch it grow....and count the dollars....😅

I always feel like I have inside information after watching these videos. Love it

Harry, thank you for tell us the truth about roundup.

Harry always makes the farming topic, interesting to the ordinary people! The update on glyphosate is good to know too. One of my concerns is this push by the government for 'rewilding', when we really need to be growing as much of our own food as we can!

@geoffnewman3109

8 ай бұрын

Suggest you read Ravenous by Henry Dimbleby. You might change your mind about “growing as much as possible “

@RichieReportsUK

8 ай бұрын

​​@@geoffnewman3109I'm not aware of that book, but my point is that it's surely cheaper & greener, to grow food crops here in the UK, rather than importing raw ingredients from thousands of miles away. In today's current economic climate, we need to get the cheapest food products anyway possible, look at the way supermarket prices have rocketed in the past couple of years, because we rely on importing grain for essential products like bread & cereals etc. We need to be able to by cheap & convenient everyday foods without having to resort to food banks etc. In a fair world this would be possible, just look at the huge profits the big food corporations & supermarket chains are still making, despite them needing to import more than before, but not passing on any of those profits to the end consumer, (us). One thing I do often wonder is, are many foods being made more expensive by adding all sorts of unnecessary ingredients, which don't really contribute much to the end flavour, I often look at the ingredients list of some products, there are so many, it takes up a whole side of the packaging & reads like a list of items from a chemistry lab!

Thank you so much for these videos. We have a much better understanding of what you are trying to achieve and the challenges the farming community faces.

I can't belive you expected the Government to sort the "FREE" farming money, they only dangle the idea, all I see is farmers growing less when we need more food, it beggers belief. Keep the videos coming.

@Houthiandtheblowfish

8 ай бұрын

they are helping you

I remember all the information on Roundup when I was at ag college in the late 70's, early 80's in UK. It is still used extensively in Australia too. Not sure if it has been doctored down, like many other things. But in my experience it doesn't work as well as it used to. We have some weeds here that laugh at it. Doesn't do much to them at all. And many others that die back. But first shower of rain and they bounce back. They still advertise. Kills root and all. But I am finding this often not to be true.

Harry - y’all should be doing a look-see w/ Zack, host of the the Millennial Farmer channel. He does corn and soybeans up in central Minnesota, but it might be a cool thing to compare the farming biz btwn the two genres? Roundup is settling my CLL cancer case…

Thanks Harry, its always interesting to follow your farming activities. Your presentation is always first class. all the best Bob

Lord Bamford would have something to say about you running a manitou great content love Harry’s farm

Thanks for the insight on Glyphosate, something I hoped you would bring up one day but understand discussing it can be quite controversial. I think the big issue for me with Glyphosate was the fairly recent additional use of it as a desiccant just before harvest, something I didnt realise was done until you showed it in one of your videos (thanks again for the insight!). I think, just my opinion, there's a big difference spraying it before the crop is planted to kill existing weeds and waiting quite a few months before harvest in which time it might break down in the soil compared to spraying it on the seed just before harvest whether it's approved to do it or not. It might be interesting to do a more in depth comparison video of organic farming to modern 'conventional' farming, I'm pretty much on the fence as there's upsides and downsides to either.

@Houthiandtheblowfish

8 ай бұрын

yep exactly

@hughmarcus1

8 ай бұрын

Glyphosate is short acting, it's really designed to kill plants quickly, to enable a job to be done (a reseed or a harvest etc) it oddest offer a permanent kill. Any of us farmers who've sprayed off a field with glyphosate to plant another crop & didn't get the job done will know that the existing crop reverse, especially grass. I'm personally not a fan of artificially ripening crops with glyphosate as there's traces left on the crop. I'm primarily a livestock farmer. Although I try to use a little cereal feeds, this that I do are bought from other famers who don't spray their crops to ripen them.

@johnnunn8688

8 ай бұрын

What on Earth, is the agenda of these various governments? They seem to want to stop UK food production altogether. Is it so that when crops fail on the continent, they can then obtain food from somewhere else and make us all feel SO, SO grateful to them? I’m N Cotswolds and there is so much land around me, that has not been used for years, it’s crazy.

@peterverbogt3870

8 ай бұрын

I would say be carefull with your stand on Glyphosate. They didn't test the 10+ year concequences. How does it react on the long term to animals and humans? Lets be honest from the moment we use this poison the insects are at a 80% decline right now. And don't talk about the US justice system, the company with the most money wins that has nothing to do with the truth! I love your program but this is a slip up. Greetings Peter

Your farming channel is fascinating Harry. I look forward to these videos.

Excellent video with simple and informative explanation of the issues faced by farmers and yourself.

Dad was a champion plougher, it would be fun to see you have a go and explain what it was like back in the day on an ole Fergie, just so people know what it was like. Cheers for the vids!

I remember when Roundup was first launched by Monsanto and I was working for, what was then, RHM Agriculture. At the launch, the representative of Monsanto actually drank a dilute solution of the product to everybody's amazement. I know the man concerned and he was still alive 10 years ago! We sold the product with total confidence that this was a safe product and did revolutionise agriculture and reduced fuel consumption drastically. Couch grass was the bane then and it was essentially eradicated.

Thanks for the lucid explanation Harry. And for bringing some sanity to the glyphosate debate.

Thanks once again for one of your informative videos it’s good to inform as to the difficulties of today’s farming and the balmy government ideas that have been trotted out post brexit!

Thanks Harry, really informative as usual. Any chance of an update on the solar at some point?

So lets So let's talk about Glyphosate. I,ll tell a story (maybe I told it before?) As a boy of 10 or 11 on a Farm just on the outskirts of Banbury (long since been supplanted by housing) I was spraying weeds, nettles and thistles in a pasture. I poured in the correct amount or concentrate and then topped off with water......while doing this, my watch strap/pin broke and the watch (sods law) dropped straight into the tank of the sprayer. (Big blue tank, same colour as the Fordson Major I was using - an expert could probably tell us what make it was?). Instinct took over and I literally just shoved my arm in the half full tank and grabbed the watch....luckily it was OK (not in long enough)......But my arm had been in the weedkiller. As a child you think nothing of it....and I carried on, sprayed the weeds, washed out the sprayer and parked up the tractor......and went home......(just to say that weedkiller was amazing, by the time you got to the end of the field and turned round for your next pass......the nettles were already curling over, the thistles took a little longer.....It had a particular smell, which I'll get back to.....I remember to this day that it was called Gramoxone W! and why I remember is that next day my army was swelled up like 'elephantiasis', it didn't hurt at all really but I did feel a little bit 'Moby dick', off colour so to speak and she (Mum) called our Doctor (Doctor Long - who drove a Big Green P4 Rover - nice chap). I told him the story of how I dropped my watch in the sprayer tank....and the stuff was called Gramoxone W...he said "that is helpful, he wished all his patients could tell him what had poisoned them" 😄.....He looked in a book he carried with him (probably a glossary of common poisons). Nowadays the laptop would be out (or his phone)!!! He looked at me again and said, yes you have a scratch on your arm and that's where the poison went in! (scratches on my arm.??..I was 10, I had scabs on my knees and scratches everywhere as always afflict the adventurous). He said to my mother the swelling will go down, lots of liquids, perhaps some dry toast.....Two days off school and bed rest.....Dr long always told her not to give us Lucozade..."it's just sugary water" and too expensive, he would say. Nowadays (I'm 66 now) I use a really good weed killer here in Eastern Poland, It kills everything it touches.....It has the same smell as Gramoxone W.......I presume it is Glyphosate. (Its Name is 'Chwastox') (apologies if I told this story before).

@chrisglover2133

8 ай бұрын

Gramoxone wasn’t glyphosate, at least here.

@Pinzpilot101

8 ай бұрын

Whew. so What the hell was Gramoxone? Like I said, one pass down the field and all those nettles were curling over....before you turned at the bottom of the field. It has this same smell as the stuff I am using in Eastern Poland.@@chrisglover2133

@Rover200Power

8 ай бұрын

Graxamone W is paraquat dichloride, which is lethal to humans and animals. The active ingredient in Chwastox is MCPA (2-methyl-4-chlorophenoxyacetic acid). Neither have anything to do with Glyphosate.

@charlesyeo8252

8 ай бұрын

Definitely not glyphosate it takes a week before you can see any effect on the plants.

Great stuff!

Thank you for the update and information. :)

Another great vid - thanks!

I’d love to see more of the tractor work as it happens Harry

All that litigation costs. More inflation. And totally agree, it’s about energy in all its forms - scope 1, 2 and 3, emissions. Absolutely support what you’re doing in this respect. PS biodiversity is the next thing for consideration under TNFD where guidelines have just been released.

Thanks for taking the time on these videos, which are excellent and something we all look forward to. It would be interesting if you could do a Q&A session at some point as I have heaps of questions e.g. why are farmers local to me ploughing all of a sudden as I though this was an extinct art? Only just over the Northants border to you so would be good to understand the wider farming trends.

Fantastic Harry

Such interesting content. You always manage to bring something new despite the years I've been watching. 1000 grain weight!

Interesting, entertaining and informative. Great job in educating a non framer in the intricacy and sometimes stupidity of government policies and regulations. Keep making the vidoes and I will continue to be entertained and educated.

Great video as always 👍

Thanks Harry your a mine of information 👍

A good friend of mine runs a farm up here in Angus in Scotland. We have had that much rain over the past week or so that sadly around £50,000 worth of potatoes were actually floating in a couple of his fields. He has told me that hopefully he should be able to salvage most of the crop but it will probably involve a lot of manual labour as the machine used will not manage to pick the crop easily.

@sianwarwick633

8 ай бұрын

Are you saying this friend of yours in Scotland needs labourers ? .... hello

@colinbremner9030

8 ай бұрын

@@sianwarwick633 that i don’t know but pretty sure he has something planned already. The good old days when the tattie harvest was always done by hand with manual labour ,work at the spuds all week until sign on day to still claim your unemployment benefits 😉. Even our school holidays at that time of year was known as the tattie holidays and us kids would also be out earning some pocket money ( slave labour when you think about it now though).

you are living the dream!

Always an education. Many thanks.

Love it...great content...hard work...solid...

Always a fascinating video, thanks Harry.

Intelligent report on the use of Glyphosate at the moment this is the best we have, Hope you had a good price for your wheat

Harry everything you say re farming is 💯

Cheers Harry 👍😉💪

Mind boggling knowledge. Thank you once more Harry, fascinating stuff.

Very interesting and informative - thank you.

As a farmer here in Australia, I support the welsh farmers telling the government to take a hike. That’s what it’s going to take to get your country back.

@buildmotosykletist1987

8 ай бұрын

G'day from Gippy.

@Houthiandtheblowfish

8 ай бұрын

if people had cared enough we wouldnt have been in this situation it is a failed situation

@buildmotosykletist1987

8 ай бұрын

@@Houthiandtheblowfish : Brainless empathy.

Great video. I hope the weather holds for you and the drilling goes well. Keep up the good work.

Another enlightening video- thank you Harry. I feel for the Welsh farmers....

Brilliant video. Very well explained.

Thanks for addressing the glyphosate item!

With you on the roundup

Mavellous video Round up is brilliant.☘️🇮🇪👏👏👏👏👏

Your channel and a certain series of a colleage farmer nearby on Amazon Prime is so good for letting know what farming is all about. Thanks

Wow-great information herbicides…. I had no idea🤔

Always worth the wait👍🏻I’ll shortly be Googling, ploughing competitions near me 😎

Love the old stuff…

FFF&B is always a great event to attend. Sadly couldn’t make it this year, but should be next year

w00t! farm stuff with Stanley :P

Love the Panerai!

What we have noticed like you mentioned with minimal cultivations in certain circumstances is there is a lot of trash left on the surface, and it really does encourage the Slugs. If you have a following crop of O.S.R. it can be game over.

I add a touch of glyphosate to my cigars before enjoying your videos on the porch. 😊

We've just got our Dawsum seed wheat delivered and we said the bags look half filled compared to our other varity. Nice focus on glyphosate. Our farming system would collapse without it.

HaHaa... hose pipe ban all summer in Devon and Cornwall (ended 25/09). Long faces here on how wet the subsoil is for drilling. At least my borehole will not run out of water. Sounding a bit more upbeat Harry, feel sorry for the Welsh though.

Excellent video. Much sounds good to people who spend their time prognosticating about things in which they have no practical experience. Seems Round-Up is one to of those things.

Great information given here ...rather than the usual stuff about machinery which can be a bit boring.

I like your farm videos even more than your garage videos.

Ahsante sana Harry

Please feature video of the local farm show, please it looks nice.

Love a telehandler

Thanks for the update. Here is Australia our farmers are bracing themselves for a dry summer with bush fires with occasional floods ....

@buildmotosykletist1987

8 ай бұрын

We'll be right mate. We've had a great run of record years. Don't get too sucked in by the media.

@stevepearce6689

7 ай бұрын

Meanwhile in Australia as reported by the ABC " Heavy rain causes damage during critical SA, Victoria harvest season "

Hi Harry, hope you got the Manitou fixed. Looks very much like injection fuel pump transfer pressure affecting the injection timing hence the blue smoke. Had this on a Vermeer once and it turned out to be a partially blocked fuel tank stack pipe filter.

Nice

Great!

Some farmers are using Camera assisted sprayers to reduce the consumption of roundup which saves a lot of money.

Great seeing your mk 1 or 2 land rover. Enjoy your arable farming education.

Good to see an update Harry. I understand the imperative to use glyphosate however there are financial imperatives for finding methods away from high input farming methods. Less herbicide, less pesticide = less passes which means less diesel, less machine wear and overall cost savings. There are better ways to farm, which David R. Montgomery has explored in various climatic and soil conditions and there is an abundance of evidence challenging modern chemical heavy farming. Lets not be naïve and ignore the fact that there are interests, with vast financial resources and huge profits whom wish to push for high input methods. Their interests are not the same as farmers, ecologists or the population in general, but rather purely monetary. The issue of weed suppression can be addressed by minimal tillage and direct drill methods, so I look forward to seeing what you make of them. Given there are alternatives to herbicide and pesticide I think a better argument against glyphosate is the impact it has on waterways and countryside ecology in general. It has been proven beyond reasonable doubt to be devastating for ecology as a whole, even if we aren't likely to get cancer from the stuff. Simply put, Ultimately, if we love the countryside, live in it, and want other people to enjoy particularly in the future, logically, one would want to stop introducing damaging compounds into the environment regardless of it being safe for human exposure. Lest we forget our countryside is in a sad state compared to what it was, we've lost an awful lot of invertebrate and passerine bird numbers that were commonplace in when our grandparents were young.

Another great video, thanks for inviting us onto your farm.

Speaking of trees, I wanna see harry do a video on what he thinks of agroforestry if at all

Congratulations on 3rd! I wish you would produce a daily vlog 😂

Great informative video harry, the whole farm wheat then? Charlie hasn't cleaned the combine off yet!!!!

The herbicides are necessary to be productive, But That doesn’t mean I want it in my food.Especially when used as a desiccant.

Hi, we liked your video about beef farming in Britain. We are crop and livestock farmers. Have to say, one farmer to another, that you shouldn't take Bayer's word for it. They have a bit of a vested interest, yes? I think you ought to take the same methodical approach to the glyphosate issue as you did to the beef and global warming issue. If you look up research by say, Prof. Emeritus, Don Huber, and others, I think you might find that your affinity for the product may be a marriage of convenience. Glyphosate actually ties up essential nutrients in your soil, and is not good for the overall habitat. Admittedly, farming without it is challenging, but down the road glyphosate brings its own challenges, including resistant weeds.

Glyphosate was originally developed to clean pipes and boilers. It was found it also killed weeds so was used as a herbicide in the mid 70's.

Lots of information for non farmers hope it does some good

Keep your soap boxes going Harry; eventually you will grind down the ill/uninformed

I cant get to the show but it would be a nice video

How do you keep rats out of the grain shed?

@charlesharper2357

8 ай бұрын

By not keeping it for long...

@AdamB8791

8 ай бұрын

Stanley the dog..

Give it up the cultivating Harry. We grow 3000 acres of combinable crops in South Northants on mostly heavy land and have only direct drilled for the last 6/7 years. Slowly getting on top of our black grass as well. Just me and boss on farm most of year except harvest when we have some casual help.

Harry, brilliant focus on glyphosate, it is totally supported in all advanced countries and does no harm to anything. Well done to keep bashing on that the stuff is safe for use as directed. The IARC classification is nuts. Alcohol is a known carcinogen, but people drink it every day, and it is in all sorts of food and drink. Great video. Thanks for being a realist and pragmatist. Most detractors are urban dwellers who have never seen a field or are interested in agriculture, they buy organic veg at vast prices not knowing that 95% of all veg are grown using appropriate, approved chemicals.. Organic is not proven to be beneficial to anyone.

Enjoyed your comments on glyphosate, on the money. I'd be interested in your thoughts on Nitrogen fertiliser and how farming replaces it to reach net zero ...

People from the cities love to tell farmers how to farm, maybe farmers should start telling them how to tend their gardens. How many use weed killers of one sort or another? Farmers should peer over their garden fences and say 'Oh, don't plant this, don't do that or do it this way or that'.

@patshiels5429

8 ай бұрын

Remember the folks from the city concern re DDT you sometimes have to step back to see the picture. And the people from the city are the farmer’s customers

@barkershill

8 ай бұрын

@@patshiels5429True,but in my experience non farmers even if they live in a rural area are alarming ignorant or completely misinformed about farming practices although this does not seem to stop them commenting or campaigning on farming matters .

@EleanorPeterson

8 ай бұрын

I have a tiny back garden (roughly 20' by 15') and try to grow my own fruit and veg in beds, pots, stacked containers, and a 7' lean-to greenhouse. I live in the north of England (West Yorkshire) on a very small budget [£800 per year (yes, eight-hundred quid)], so every plant matters. I'm not a health freak or an organic 'nut'. I can't afford to grow organically. I use whatever chemicals and inorganic fertilisers will give me a decent harvest with minimal wastage. I don't care about the evils of chemical residues; I'll be dead soon anyway; I live on fruit and veg because it's cheap. The price of 1 takeaway meal - £10.00 - is my regular food budget for almost 3 weeks. I DO take care not to harm bees and other beneficial insects with my various treatments. I use systemic sprays with great care, and cover plants/beds with fine netting immediately after spraying. I have two apple trees ('Bramley' and 'Discovery') in big tubs; I spray them every season for pests and diseases, and have had very good crops of cooking and dessert apples from them for more than 15 years. This year I ran out of money (due to the crippling cost of the new compulsory electricity standing charge - £204 annually! - which I consider to be a Poll Tax on the poor and worthy of another 1381-style Peasants' Revolt) and couldn't afford my usual 'chemical warfare' offensive. So I lost the battle, and then the war. This season was a disaster. Slugs and other pests massacred my carrots, lettuces, spuds, peas and beans; only the tomatoes and onions survived. The Bramley apple tree produced 11 grotty fruits the size of golf balls; it was hit by a blight which curled and blackened the leaves and stunted its usual strong growth. My lovely Discovery tree produced 34 apples. 3 fruits were of normal size, 31 were the size of ping-pong balls. Only 1 of the 3 big apples was blemish-free and edible. ALL the others were covered in scabs, holes, rotten patches, and dropped from the tree to be consumed by wasps. 33 out of 34 apples were riddled with moth larvae or grubs, and fit only for the compost bin. I've no interest in organic produce. I can't afford to 'sacrifice' 85% of my minuscule crop to pests and diseases just to show how virtuously right-on and green I am. I can't plant extra beds to cover my losses because I have no spare room. I want results. I want food. Approved chemicals are fine by me. If I could afford 'proper' supermarket produce I wouldn't care how it was grown. All farmers do a good job - be they conventional or organic. As long as consumers are given a choice of what to buy, I don't see the problem. If you want and can afford organic food - great, if that's what you want. Buy, eat and enjoy. But I know that most people in my position (i.e. skint) couldn't give a toss about how their food is produced. Not bothered about inorganic herbicides, pesticides, or whateversides. I'm too poor to have principles, so come on, Harry - bring on the glyphosate!

The issue with glyphosate is far more nuanced, like most things it is not black and white. Any toxin is usually only harmful depending on the dosage and that is directly related to how much of the chemical makes it through to the final food that we eat. The lower the dosage the safer the food and generally the earlier the crops are sprayed in the cycle the lower the levels of glyphosate in the final harvest. As long as the final harvest has negligible levels that remain within safety limits there should be no problem. However, glyphosate has been linked with cancer and other diseases and the problems start when farmers continue to spray crops throughput the crop cycle, especially when it is close to harvest, as the toxicity of the food increases because there is less time for the toxin to dissipate. This seems to be a growing trend in the US, one that I hope we do not adopt in the UK. Extreme use of chemicals like glyphosate and mono crop intensive farming is also reducing the nutrients in the top soil, making our food less nourishing and tasty. I’m sure Harry adheres to the safety standards, as he looks like he knows what he’s doing. Glyphosate is safe if used correctly but like any chemical is very toxic in high doses. The less we mess with our food the better it is for us and the environment and all farming should have this as a first principle. One of the reasons we should never have a trade agreement with America is because we don’t want them to poison our food.