There’s one thing your video does show, the precarious nature of food production. You can take nothing for granted and there’s only a narrow gap between surplus and shortage and between innovation and stagnation!

@tomgreene1843

Ай бұрын

Very true ..a fact not appreciated in the modern times ...especially by many with the green agenda !

@robertsmith9810

Ай бұрын

EVERY one predicts a glut as we called no one predicts a shortage ,that`s the nature of farming😂😓

It’s almost impossible to farm in the UK at the moment....weather patterns,lack of seasons,lack of government interest/backing, lack of crop protection inputs (flea beetle,leather jackets, slugs) means that producing food is getting very prohibitive. To the consumer,food is getting dearer by the week....for the producer taking land out of production looks more and more attractive. Would love to know what they think the end game is..

Another great video to highlight the constant challenge farmers face to produce our food whilst trying to make a living. 👍 You do some amazing work

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

😊👍

Good to hear your hosting Cereals 2025 👍it will be a well organised event no doubt 😉 That’s a fantastic service from Househam, they come and collect your sprayer, clean it all, tire paint an all, and deliver it back ready for work 😝

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

😊👍

Well done for securing Cereals 2025 Andrew. Hopefully we can look forward to some "Waffles" of the setting up process and what happens behind the scenes.

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

You won’t be short of waffle from the cereals site, that’s for sure!

You're a good man Andrew giving Ollyblogs a hug and telling him that you will host Cereals 2025 so that he can have an "All area's car parking and access pass". A suitable gold or platinum VIP sign to fix to the roof of Olly's Range Rover is expected lol

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

Great news about Cereals, will be able to check out where you are!

Sugar beet as you say will benefit from inter row cultivation. Spent many hours doing side hoeing as we called it 5 rows at a time one tractor driver one steering hoe Great cereal’s will be on your farm. 30 mm rain with me Saturday to Saturday. But 7mm Saturday morning

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

☹️☹️🤦‍♂️

Andrew. Great news on the cereals site for 2025 looks like your all over the changes required ( layout !!! ). Leaves a horrible pit in the stomach when you see the Capulet bean emergence, feel for you, damned weather, it has to get better.

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

All the work that goes into them and something out of our control undoes it.

Cold an wet destroying all this year,good luck with cereals, u need a clip on accommodation for it

Brilliant news about cereals I will put that date in diary

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

Make sure you do!

Glad its not just me having problems with slugs this year. My garden has never been as bad as it is this year. I assume its a combination of wet weather and lack of decent winter frosts. Olly H has lost his sunflowers as well. We definitely need some warmer weather and sunshine.

Mixed video very sad about the beans lost areas of crop and also the poor take on the cover crops but the last clip very pleasing to the eye seeing that beet

I would leave them volunteers there as long as you can. Will be another high slug year this autumn

Nice video, lovely beet crop hope the beans take off.

Great video I guess our cold spring has proven difficult for your beans good luck 😉

Straight on it with the first comment

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

😂😂👌

Great video Andrew

Another nice update Andrew, I know it's not on field scale but I've had garden seeds do the same as your beans, this year just not grow and seed disappeared

Nala looked as if she had spotted a deer or hare in a field clip. Proper got some running speed. I always look forward to your midweek and Sunday videos. Having come from a farming family I wished we had kept the farm. It was all sold off 2 years before I was born in 1980. However, I take a great interest in farming I do believe in the saying "it's in the blood" Keep up the great work Andrew! 👍

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

Feel sorry for you. Nala did have a run about!

Such a shame about the beans, but as you say the weather has affected other crops too causing crop failure etc.

Another great update Andrew, It is good news you are hosting the show next year. I haven't been to an agricultural show since the days of the East of England show when it was a 3 day event at Peterborough. I will definitely come to the event. One thing I did see on George Saunders' video on the Ceres stand was a machine to cut the heads off black grass. I know you spend a lot of time reducing black grass, it would be great to see that machine working .

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

Total waste of time. The tractor wheels run it down before it’s cut, those areas will be full next year and there’s also lots of blackgrass heads below the wheat ears which it would miss.

Had the chains fallen off the sprayer between Cereals site and your yard lucky it didnt fall off trailer

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

😂😂 The driver arrived at the barrier very early and didnt want to ring me so took the chains off at the gate.

great news you hosting cereals

Morning Andrew. Cracking update again mate. That’s good news your hosting the cereals avert next here well done. I do hope your beans recover and grow nicely. That beet in the last field look really well and that GPS worked amazingly now overdrill looked good. 😊

Congratulations Andrew on hosting the cereals event next year. You must be very proud to be doing that. I’ve not been for years but I might definitely have to make the trip up 👍 at least you won’t have far to go next year 😂 It’s been such a difficult year trying to grow anything, it’s just been so cold, I’ve only had a couple of days this year that I’ve not wanted to be out working without my overalls on. Such a cold north wind. But yet the met office tell us we’ve had the warmest May on record in this country. We’ve got maize here that’s meant to be knee high by the 4th of July, it’s hardly 6 inches at the moment. Everyone is saying to stock up now as food shortages are on there way. If only us farmers could control the weather like the ones in power seem to do? 😂

Another great update, GPS, RTK, and individual row shut-off is amazing with no overlap between the headlands and main rows. Larson Farms in America set their drill, so it leaves a space between the headland rows and main rows to allow for easier harvesting

Hi Andrew, re the interow cultivator in the sugar beet, it makes sense to do it now and follow with another herbicide, back in my days of agriculture it was a fact that I was introduced to that when the soil is disturbed, this although should kill emerged weeds, but the dormant weed seeds will be stimulated by the magic of nature into germinating, this was how we used to have a weed programme work in onions. This soil disturbance can often be best shown when excavation spoil heeps suddenly produce a great array of weeds, especially poppy, from depth because they have laid dormant until moved, the wonders of nature is what inspired most of my memories in agriculture, great news of Cereals coming close again (Sleaford), looking forward already.

Grest news about Cereals 25 - Looking forward to it and I'm sure it will be a fantastic event 👍

Well done for cereals 25. When did those negotiations start ? Will it return to 25000 attendance ? Bean establishment variability annoying. Difference in techniques really annoying. Heavy land beet looks good down the rows. Is that the only way to empty the freeflow ? Maybe a seed sock from Olly !

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

Started talking re cereals about 3 months ago. Seed sock no good for us because there’s no flap under the hopper, the rollers need to turn which puts seed all over the frame in the dust and soil.

Congratulations well done.

Geo engineering of the climate 😮 Thats why we are in a mess with the weather!!!

Looking good

Brilliant news for hosting cereals! Dont forget not to let olly blogs in particularly if he starts moving cones around!

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂 I’m going to have a Wardy VIP lane!!

Brilliant update… great news that Cereals is in the county again next year, look forward to that! When you have a companion crop, how do you get rid of one crop without damaging the other, does the spray itself only target one, or do you spray the line of oats but avoid spraying the beans, or is it just down to the time that you apply the spray which treats one crop but not the other? Will any oats still make it through the combine?

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

The spray targets the oats but leaves the beans.

You need your mate Olly blogs to sell you a seed sock !!

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

They don’t work on the free flow because there is no emptying flap in the hopper. The feed rollers all have to turn which then puts the seed all over the frame and pipes amongst the soil and dust.

@RG-mk3ds

Ай бұрын

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard I knew there would be good reason!!!

Intersting amaizing diference in the crop planted with different drills, i would guess the simba is disturbing more soil than the precision drill, would that then allow better drainage around the seed, best refurbish the simba and keep her going a few more years😂 i wonder why the flee beetle only selects certain crops, in our area farmers are mainly grass and yet we could plant a feild of roots on top of a hill the first time in 20 years and along comes zebady the flee bettle and their gone🤔

I think you need to go over to the Cotswold Andrew and show Adam (county file) how to control his black grass as he seems to have a horrific infestation. Great videos very interesting all time thanks Tom Macpherson

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

Cheers Tom. BG is a big problem this year ………… apart from our crops!!

Ever try humic acid an molasses through ur fertiliser when spraying, should help beans an sugar beet.would waste alcohol in trays help keep slugs away

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

Don’t really know but I’d need a lot of trays to cover 150 acres!!

@geoffreymoore2204

Ай бұрын

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard true but slugs will go along way for it

Andrew just have a look behind the cab as you walk up the steps I recall seeing a missing bolt and a couple of loose ones! I think the are a 13 mm headed bolt.

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

Sorry Stuart, on which machine?

@stuartwarrick6444

Ай бұрын

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard hi Andrew, on the sprayer! When I see It on the stand it looked like a bolt was missing as you climb the steps and look behind the cab in front of you. I think it was a white panel.

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

@stuartwarrick6444 thank you, I’ll look tomorrow, it’s now at the Lincs show!

Another interesting Waffle. Interesting to see how the different drills influenced germination of the beans. Did the headland have extra cultivation? Would it be worthwhile using one of the newest cultivators that would hoe between the beet plants as well as the middle of the rows if available?

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

Only extra cultivation was through using the simba drill. Those inter row cultivators are very expensive and only used in high value crops like veg.

Hi.amdrew.how.are.you.are.you.busy.on.the.farm.

I've slug pelleted pes this year first time ever I think. now have had to root out all the bird scaring kit always a challenge.

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

Slugs are everywhere

How does it work with a crop like the beans? If sections fail does that mean a total loss for the farm or is there an element of compensation because it's a test bed?

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

Yes, loss for us, no compensation, same for any crop as happened because of the floods

Congrats on hosting Cereals next year. Can you get the same carpark attendant for Ollie?

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

I know of a guy who sells a thing called a seed sock for emptying drills. I'm not sure if you know him 😉

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

Haven’t a clue who you mean! They don’t work on the free flow because there is so emptying flap in the hopper. The feed rollers all have to turn which then puts the seed all over the frame and pipes amongst the soil and dust.

Hi Andrew. Do you think that because the precision drilled beans and black oats were planted so close together that they had a reaction causing the beans not to grow. You had broadcast the oats where you planted the the freeflow so there were bigger gaps.

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

I’m sure it’s down to the weather because last year we did exactly the same on a small plot and it worked a treat.

Great update Andrew, I have put the dates in my diary for next June. We need some warm weather to help with the crops, I have never known it to so cold and wet like it is this year. A shame about the beans it just show what affect wet has on crops, and slugs are loving these conditions I walk my dog in the evening and am amazed how many slugs I have seen just lately.

As a non farmer would I be able to visit the cereals 2025 at your farm I would quite enjoy a day out and maybe have a chance to say hello to you

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

Yes you will. You will of seen the discount code I put out for this years event, I’ll do that again for next year so watch out for it starting in May

Great video wardy, Do you think that planting these stewardship crops on farms around the country is going to lead to another problem with weeds that farmers have been fighting to control for years,

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

I don’t think so but definitely a problem for food security

@suresren

Ай бұрын

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Totally agree with you on the food shortage issue,

Evening Andrew do you think the bean fly have affected the germination of your beans rather than the weather? The headlands have had same amount of rain and they have grown, so is it a mechanical issue rather than the weather.

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

I don’t think so. All the fields were cultivated at the same time with the same machine. The headlands were drilled with the Freeflow, the inside with the Amazone, did that not come across in the video?

Why Black oats as a companion considering the possible allelopathic effect from their root?

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

That effect is only from crops of the same species so cereal to legume is not an issue.

Hi Andrew. In the precision drilled area where you have no beans, will you let the black oats mature and combine them for future cover / companion crops?

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

Possibly, that’s one thing I’m looking at.

How come your sprayer wasn’t chained on to trailer when it arrived back in your yard????

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

Because he arrived at the gate at 6.45 but didn’t ring me until 7.20 to let him in because he knew I was very late home from cereals the night before. So he took the chains off the other side of the gate.

@paulsmith8282

Ай бұрын

Thank you

You going to Lincolnshire show Andrew ?

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

Yes, both days. Have various roles and things to do and some social mixed in!

The experts say we had the warmest May on record. I think I missed it!!! Did you see it?

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂 That must of been the 5 days Rhonda and I were in Italy!!

I would leave them volunteers there as long as you can. Will be another high slug year this autumn

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

Which volunteers?

@Explorer214urban

Ай бұрын

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Looks to be a mix of wheat or oats . Let the slugs chew on them additionally it will hopefully hide the beans in the meantime.

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard

Ай бұрын

@Explorer214urban it’s not volunteers, they are a companion crop of black oats specially planted to do a job