My 2021 rapeseed harvest turns out to be even worse than I expected
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- čas přidán 7. 08. 2021
- Growing OSR in the UK has become an expensive gamble after the banning of neonicotinoid seed dressings a few years ago. I had hoped my crop had recovered from the early cabbage stem flea beetle but then a disastrous flush of weeds took over much of the crop after the heavy rainfall in May/June time. In this video, the combine reveals how bad it was..
As a non farmer.... so, so interesting and learning to appreciate agriculture.
We are very lucky to be surrounded by fields. Harry's farm has given me some inside knowledge to engage with the farmer..."min-till" get me!
I think Charlie is so blessed to be able to work with his Dad on the farm. I wish I could’ve had that experience with my Dad. What a beautiful family. Harry, Charlie, and the next generation, adorable little Henry.
Nice to see there’s still a lorry driver left in UK.
It’s interesting. When watching Harry’s Farm it gives me the feeling of learning farming but at the same time the knowledge to avoid going into farming.
@andrew scott It sure is easy to live in a world where you simply call anything fake news that doesn't fit your narrative. 🙄
Yea kind of terrifying that you're so dependant on the weather which you have no control over.
@andrew scott Are you saying the road haulage companies are lying?
@andrew scott they have all been pinged is the problem, delete the app and there will be loads of drivers.
@andrew scott if there is no driver shortage, how can you explain that EVERY big haulage company is at least 20 drivers short? 20-30% of the drivers in the UK were eastern europeans, now from brexit and IR35 they went in another country, and that left a very big gap. And now is not a big shortage, you will see in 2years,when a lot more british drivers will retire and the last of the eastern europeans leave the UK, then will be a even greater shortage.
Why do I find myself just not caring about fast cars so much anymore and instead mesmerized by...farming? Great episode!
Awesome video as always Harry. Talk about a race against time, farming at full tilt, very exciting to see. All’s well that ends well as they say. Great weather app you got there Harry. Great bit of parking, hats off to the combine driver. Thanks H for sharing.
@Paul Fellows Charlie is a handsome fella
Paul Fellows nice one Paul. Thanks for that mate.
“It won’t be a late night” Harry says at 2210hrs!!! Farmers are bloody grafters...... respect 🙂
Charlie's a brick! This video perfectly demonstrates the absolute madness that farming is: we need the rain for and we don't need the rain because we're combining! And, the monies risked, i.e., the planting/harvesting gamble! Harry's a cool dude!
I hope lots of people watch this. The absolute struggles growing OSR I'm sure are not appreciated by many consumers. I love rapeseed oil and am never without any. But I'm always amazed that there's so much of UK produce available given the farmers' struggles.
Very good video, really good to see almost an uncut version of how it all works, and great to see all the family working together. I assume it’s Harry’s wife on the camera. Also the little blooper at the end adds a bit of reality - happens to us all! Very cosy, very informative, keep them coming Harry.
That beeping in the tractor is like the Dakar proximity warning for cycles. Look over your shoulder Harry!
My word, things have changed on English farms since I worked as a farm labourer 50 years ago! I am a new subscriber and I am enjoying this channel
This video brings back happy memories of the mid to late 1970's. My Dad finishing work and then straight away taking me to the cornfields near our home so I could watch the combine. I'd happily watch whilst chattering away, until they put lights on and then he would insist on taking me home. Of course, those cornfields are long gone with houses built where they used to be. It's crazy to look at Google maps and see where all the beautiful fields were.
Oh Gena, I feel your pain. We do not have a need for more house, we have a need for fewer people. Controversial? nope, realistic.
@@dickieb2233 I agree with you, this tiny country is overcrowded!
@@GenaF My childhood holidays were spent at my Grandmother's in Norfolk. Her bungalow was surrounded by fields. Every Summer we get to witness the combines at the edge of the garden. We lost Gran in '81 and had to sell. Now, the bungalow is still there but houses and flats surround it now. So sad.
Must be worth it to go too all that hassle Harry, especially if you are planting it again. Great to see Charlie as well.
Well done Harry and Charlie !! Great video with all the family involved to beat the rain.......well done Mrs M to capture it ))
I know nothing about farming but Harry could make anything interesting to watch.
The combine operators are gold, looks like you have one of the good ones working with you...
Following a previous video you did I downloaded the 'Rain Today' App and find it about 90% accurate. Way better than the weather on the news...
Excellent. I use it all the time as then you know where the rain is and if it's coming your way. Much more useful during a working day than a forecast!
Sadly no longer available for Android. I loved it.
@@Raysnature that's a bummer, is it Crapple only now? Any alternatives?
@@richardharrold9736 Sadly yes. I haven't found one as good yet, not even close.
@@Raysnature Have you tried accuweather? I've not tried the app myself, I just know they do a minutecast which might be what you're looking for
Probably my favourite video so far. Just love the worts and all honesty, almost ‘live action’ feel.
Makes me happy after a busy day doing jobs.
Farm & Garage within an hour , brightened up my Sunday .
thanks Harry.
Another terrific episode Harry so interesting for us non farmers :)
i so love Harrys videos , a real sunday treat , thank you
Knowing nothing of arable farming, this is a fantastic eye-opener. Well done!
When you are half way through watching a new Harry’s farm video and he uploads a new Harry’s garage video- what do I do now!!??
Finish watching the Farm video, then watch the Car one... ;-)
@@rogeryoung3587 I agree Brother Don. I love cars but there's something about the farm videos that is even more unmissable....
@@rogeryoung3587 The farm one is much better if you like farming
@Alasdair Boyd Stay watching the farm video while the weather holds dry. You can always watch the garage video even if its raining.
Having moved recently and now surrounded by fields, there has been a hive of activity! Now watching this I know a bit more of what is going on and how! Thanks H.
Great to watch every piece of 2021 harvest Harry, Charlie and family! What a challenge to get some parts of the OSR fields combined. Thank you for also showing how much of the harvest needs to filtered out via the return flow of the combine. Think your Case combine is a wonderful machine, doing an excellent job though, the harvested OSR product result looks still good. Nice to have weather apps these days, as it allows to do little bit of planning notwithstanding high variability. Wishing you together good luck with continuation of the harvest of wheat and so on, just after the showers may have stopped. Kind of an all wet season 2021. Normally appreciated above extensive droughts across the globe. Thans again.
You really love your Panerai, I don't see to often a farmer driving his tractor with a watch like that! :) All the best!!!
Most of the farmers around here (Midwest) wear work clothes, drive pick ups, and wear cheap watches. And then there's Harry!
Another great video Harry. Never a dull moment in farming! Good luck with the OSR for next year
Always a joy, glad you missed / received the rain. The many thanks for all those that EAT, Cheers!
Nice to see Charlie in the video. Also, it was quite heart-warming to see father and son working together so well. Plus, I presume, mom was on the camera helping out too. Another great video. You all never disappoint. I'm looking forward to the next one.
Hugely interesting, thanks H and C; looking forward to the next instalment!
Very enjoyable vid as always Harry and I've done grain carting on quite a few arable/livestock farms over the years and some have been really bad to combine but nothing as bad as your OSR mate hope your crop will be better next year,
On a side note I was born n bred and still live in Oxfordshire I grew up on a tenant dairy farm in the 70s/80s and I went to Burford Grammar school as it was known back in the 80s when it still had a working farm, and me and my best friend would stay late everyday during the school week and milk the small Jersey herd they had and I can honestly say that was the best part of my school days.
Good morning Harry and family, I normally watch the Harry's Garage programs, but this is the first time I have seen the Farm vids. It really gave me an insight into the agricultural industry for which I say many thanks to you, well done!
Great video harry, Hope next year's crop gets away to a good start. Combine looks well looked after. Good to see Charlie again Hope he's got it cleaned up ready for wheat.
Thumbs up for the camera persons work this episode, action shots were great!
What a day down on the farm! Great work. The amount of productivity a combine brings is astounding, not to mention the tech from satellites to i phones.
I do love tht you are already realying so much on Charlie, you two are such a great team!
Catching up on you videos Harry. Another great episode.
Excellent behind the scenes of the behind the scenes, seeing the boys run about it shows how tight of a ship you have to run during this time of year, nice looking SLS stowed away there too!
Fabulously entertaining as usual. These videos are far more informative and entertaining than the tv. Love the fact you have your son working alongside you.
As always, a very interesting and entertaining video Harry…good to get the harvest just about done and you do realise that you are turning a host of oily old car fans into agricultural engineering experts..if we only had room, many of us would buy a combine to see how it works! Good work! 😀😀😀😀😀
I’ve binged watched every video from the channel during a period of self isolation and I’m hooked it’s brilliant. This channel has so much potential and I would love to see multiple uploads a week, from day to day odd jobs etc not just when something big is happening. The popularity of clarksons farm and with light of their being a second series you should really look to bask on the popularity of that. Harry’s garage is also good but this channel is where it’s at, I hope to see more content. Cheers
Really enjoyed the dynamic with the phone calls between Harry and Charlie, it added another dynamic to the channel and made me very immersed in the film. Just a suggestion on the audio, maybe it’s worth putting a shotgun mic in the cab with a wind protector to get a bit higher quality, however I do understand the need to keep everything quick and easy. I’m a huge fan of both channels as the content is really original and realist in its style, I would love to see this channel get to the same size as h’s garage. I’m a film student at university and would love to have a go editing one of these episodes if that’s something that would be of interest Harry! Take care
Started watching Harry’s Garage, now I watch the farm uploads first! 🚜
Nice one Harry and Charlie. Very informative, thank you.
Totally brilliant Sir, and very enjoyable to watch esp the bit at the end with your son! Thank you, British Farmers have my support and listen to Farming Today on R4 at 0545 almost every day!! Take care Harry & family :)
Cheers Harry, just introduced my parents to your channel. They're in Cropredy so it's either 20K of Fairport fans or 20K arces of oil seed rape. Both are brilliant.
Great video Harry!!! Sorry to hear about your lack of yield in the OSR!!! Farming isn’t fair is it!! FairPlay for your honesty to us!!!
Thank you for excellent videos.....interesting to see how farming works....and you are so good and nice as a guide/presenter (and human being)
Brilliant content H….👍🏼🚗 & great team work!!
Love you're vids Farm and Garage. Always look forward to a sunday night. I'am a ex Farm worker (HGV driver now) and a total petrol head.
Great video. Sad to see the osr crop wasn't as a high yield as you was hoping for. Hope that your little experiment sowing the new crop of osr early pays off
Well done Harry and Charlie, that radar app seems to do a good job. All very edge of the seat!!
Well done Charlie and Harry. Excellent job.
Absolutely fascinating Harry thank you!
Just love the updates on the farm as they go on
Interesting video as always, thank you, Harry. 👍😊
Awesome job Harry. That rain on Thursday afternoon was huge up here in Stow.
Hi Harry. I've really enjoyed watching your videos - I've just caught up to the most recent one after starting at the beginning a couple of months ago and I've learnt so much about such an important topic, I really appreciate you taking the time to make them. I'm a veg grower in Somerset and I fully empathise with the challenges posed by nature and the financial precarity of farming life - our farm is under 5 hectares so we don't have any subsidy to back us up but we grow 40 different types of veg so are thankfully less likely to ever lose a whole crop.
One thing I keep coming back to is the glypho question - I remember in one video you acknowledged people's concerns but said the health worries were just based on one case in the US and it was nothing to worry about. I wonder if you've read the evaluation from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (part of the World Health Organisation) which looked at 1000 peer reviewed studies and found glyphosate to be "probably carcinogenic to humans"? www.iarc.who.int/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/MonographVolume112-1.pdf
If you have and have dismissed it then it’d be really interesting to know on what basis, and if you haven’t it’d be really interesting to know what it makes you think about using it.
I understand how crucial a part of modern arable farming Roundup is, particularly if you’re trying to sequester carbon and improve soil life through no-till (and I’ve done enough weeding in my life to be almost tempted!), but given its prevalence in growing the crops we are all eating every day and your large and growing audience for whom you are often a first window into farming for, I feel like it deserves a more in-depth look, like how you’ve revisited and challenged some of the narratives around beef.
Anyway, I hope your crops get away well and all the best for 2022.
Love your videos Harry. Can't wait for the next one.
Immaculate combine for an 09 and we see Charlie good man.
Really interesting what a game farming is even with all the gizmo's. Thanks for publishing!!!
Good video! We can now see why all farmers are unhappy, when you want a bone dry field next to one that is absolutely soaking! Also, love the organised chaos of harvest time - Thank You and Charlie for giving us the inside look.
Re machinery: I was going to ask what you think about the main brand you run, but actually as a business running very complex machinery, your "brand" choice must be heavily tied to excellent and during harvest almost instant support from your local distributor/machine shop - perhaps there's a video idea in that - Good Luck!
NB: I also live these days by RainToday App, especially living in Wales - best app I have ever downloaded - Thanks for the recommendation
Luxury to have another farm video so soon,please keep doing them at this frequency.It's so informative and enjoyable....................................
Nice work Harry, cool and calm and getting the job done. Good to see the modern technology being accepted. Tractor cab is the best place to be these days.
Great episode real insight into the real stresses of farming..
Loved that ..always enjoyable cheers Harry .
Really enjoy these videos about the day to day life on the farm. And shame on you Harry for forgetting your outro 😂
Am loving all these farming channels sprouting up. Knew it was hard work but nothing beats seeing it. Hopefully more people will have a better appreciation and not waste food. Do you know of any equivalent channels for fruit? I've looked but can't find anything. Thanks.
Very interesting Harry, keep them coming.
Brilliant video and very exciting stuff. Well done gents.
Always nice to watch. Very enjoyable.
I remember my summer holidays while at school. Used to go wildoat picking. Was never bored in my summer holidays
Can’t believe I’m watching farming. And really enjoying it. Nice one.
Brilliant video,well done both
Properly interesting, thank you Harry.
Nice work guys. Nice new barn !! We need a good look at that please 😁 Have we had a recent farm tour?? We need one. Thanks (Love the ending🤣🤣 )
We have the same problems in the Netherlands as welll . We had 100 mm of rain in 4 hours. That was 12 days ago . Yesterday we start combing and the combine get often stuck in the field .What a disaster
Brilliant Harry,great job chaps.
Great video as ever Harry. Weathers never doing quite what you want eh!
Brilliant video, thanks for sharing, I've subbed...got some good stuff to watch now!!!
Nice to see the relationship you have with your son.
I have three sons and no relationship with any of them. So I am jealous of the warmth he has with his boy.
Nice work, Harry!
We need to see what's going on in the shed on the right at 22:19 !!
I wonder what your younger viewers made of 'the man from Del Monte' reference! That made me chuckle.
Interesting video. You appear to have all of Britain under the plow. Good work, sir!
An informative and honest video, many thanks. It will be interesting to watch the seedbed preparation for the wheat crop following OSR. The challenge being the level of rubbish and its treatment. Sadly, as you showed, you cannot combine anything that is not of a similar size to OSR, it will block the combine. You lose the benefit of cutting and chopping the crop which will mean it will now have to be chopped separately (an extra cost for seedbed preparation) and then incorporated more extensively, potentially even ploughing. This will take you away from your desired soil management practice and potentially introduce additional establishment crops. I look forward to seeing how you will approach this. A small footnote, I farmed in the 1980s and I always drilled OSR at the beginning of August; it established well, however the additional leaf cover meant I was plagued with pigeons!
Glad to se the RR L312 back in use 👍👍👍
My friend Tommy and I have just repaired the drive shaft on one of those Manitous it was a pig to do. So don't let it get to old. They can get a bit trouble some.
Against the clock, well we’ve all been there (albeit in different situations). Your combine driver, aka son, requires delivering to refreshments via the artic Rolls Royce when its all over. Good to see that Range Rover still in service, if I didn’t live in London I’d have one.
Sorry to see that the harvest didn't go as planned, but that wheat is looking more promising.
Great video Harry watching here from Carlow lreland
Great video as usual!
Great video Harry !
Great stuff, Harry. Not many things make an adult man run like a little rain.
Great family effort on this one!
Yeah right great seeing Charlie for once
Fantastic vid, enjoyed it very much
farming struggles are the same world wide. At least you have a good combine. I run Case IH also from Kansas Usa
Great video - thanx for sharing
Fab.. thanks Harry… feels like autumn already.. although a bit further north than you.
Combines MAGNIFICENT MACHINES