2023 Harvest frustrations. It's late, it won't stop raining & grain prices are on the rise
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- čas přidán 2. 07. 2024
- Harvest 2023 is proving much trickier than harvest 2022. This year's harvest is later and keeps getting late still because it won't stop raining. Prices are on the move too, as this video explains..
Stanley is the best part of this just living his good life running through the wheat
Between you and mr clarkson I’ve learnt more about farming in the last 3 years than in my preceding 47 years. I wish people in power would actually talk to people on the farms to get a cohesive food security plan in place, but you can’t teach politicians sense unfortunately.
Well you did ask for some rain on your last video 🙂
Harry wants the moon on a stick, he does! 😂
@@martinlaver007lo lol
I’m not generally interested in farming but I’ll watch anything Harry presents. He’s made me appreciate where my food comes from and is a great ambassador for the industry.
I totally agree with you 👏🇬🇧🇬🇧
A lightweight JC
@@matthewroberts1315 Lightweight? Harry is easy to listen to, and far more informative. JC is about ego.
You fool 😂 He’s always been the thinking man’s JC
I agree wit you but he does moan a lot😊
Dear Harry , I farmed in Northamptonshire , and on the home farm when I started on similar limestone brash like yours in 1974 , and I was going to start and grow wheat , all the locals told me , you can’t grow cereals here , it’s dog and stick land , because to grow anything here you need a shower of rain every day , and a shower of s-t on Sunday . But I did ok and grew some great wheat , O S R and linseed , and retired when I was 55 because I couldn’t see a great future in farming in the UK . I sold my last tonne of wheat at £158.00 if I remember correctly in 1996 / 1997 , the next year the same wheat was around £70.00 per tonne . Harry , and all you great farmers still hanging out there I sincerely wish you all the very best for the future , but it I worry that it is bleak , but sadly , they do not want the likes of us nowadays to work hard and grow the best food products in the world . Farming WAS the greatest job in the world , sadly no more . R I P .
Who doesn't want who to be farmers?
@@alastairward2774 anyone with sense in the 21st century. Good luck to the poor sod who purchases on borrowed money. Financial Russian roulette.
Great comment.
@@alastairward2774it’s not about us not wanting to be farmers, it’s about the government, and what type of farms they want in this country.
They no longer want small family operated businesses, they want but corporate blocks, which is incredibly detrimental to the consumer, and general oublic😊
Another farming insight Harry…you do more for farm education than any other farmer I know…and remarkably have converted thousands of car fanatics into farming enthusiasts…simple, logical, clearly explained and very informative! 🙂🙂🙂🙂
Hear Hear!!
Love seeing how Stanley has grown (so quickly too!), and loves a good rummage through the long grass and wheat fields - He's a proper English Bull Terrier character! 😍❤
Love Stanley the English Bull Terrier. My favourite dog. Not only do you have a good taste in cars, but dogs as well!
Be great to get a solar production update as well👍🏻
A fascinating insight into how external forces impact on farming and how that in turn impacts the global economy.
are you a bot? pretty generic comment
@chrisbloodknot2380 Where did I say UK affected the global economy to any great extent? Farmers worldwide suffer similar issues.
Thanks for keeping us updated. You and Clarkson, my favourite car reviewers… you and Clarkson, my favourite farmers 😅
What a fantastic video to educate those of us who have no clue about our food growth. Thank you Harry.
Very interesting Harry. I thought the best bit was talking about the wild margin saying you see voles stoats and field mice and then little Stanley comes bursting out for an appearance. That made me laugh.
oh I am excited!!! seriously, your farm videos are some of my absolute favorite videos you post, I love Harry's Garage, but the farm videos are so special for how you share so much knowledge and fact and make farming so fun to watch!* (also god... Combines are such cool machines. that shot of it reversing out of the barn looked amazing)
(*this coming from someone who's watched every Harry's Garage video you've ever posted lol, some multiple times over the years)
Harry is the classiest guy on youtube
Yes, apart from that very annoying reversing beep, they drive me nuts, just the wrong pitch, the same with the bin lorry at 07:30 on a Wednesday morning reversing up my cul-de-sac. We managed for years without them, it's just H & S gone mad. That and the dairy farm at the end of the street cutting sileage in the middle of the night. The countryside peaceful, humbug.
OK, here's a rag, clean it. I want it finished this week.
@@mbb05jb Agreeeed, him and Ian Tyrrell are literally the two best automotive CZcamsrs there are... it's so fitting, Ian only started his channel because Harry pushed him to do it, because of how much he was liked by everyone who watched the restoration vids. (they're like... the only people I've ever watched every vid from, tho Ian's case I had the advantage of being there from the first hour of his channel existing)
Such a natural effective communicator. My Mum's side of the family were farmers and I was never interested, but I love watching Harry.
Having grown up in a farming family (and moved on), I enjoy your farm videos. I have a cousin who farms on your commercial scale and deals with these issues. Through you, I can keep in touch more with what the family is facing.
TY - extremely interesting as always.
Always a great time watching these updates Harry, really interesting to follow
Thank you Harry. Always nice to hear the weather situations in other areas
Very thoughtful and interesting... but Stanley stole the show ! 😂
He definitely needs more air time!
😎
Yes more Stanley
I think that he was getting a fair bit of air time! 😅😊
Thanks welcome back 😊
Thank you for video 😊👍
Thanks Harry, very enjoyable. The ups and downs of farm life.
This man is such a friendly person always a bliss to watch.
Thanks. These videos are always thoughtful and interesting.
Cheers Harry, always a fantastic video, thank you, keep well.
Thanks for a new video, Harry. Hard to believe it's been a year already and harvest time is approaching. I am definitely looking forward to more regular updates, both with crops and other goings-on around your farm. 👍
Very difficult to plan ahead. Thanks for the video. All the best 🇬🇧.
Dear Harry. Thank you for your Farm vidoes. They make us all wiser. Keep them coming
Excellent update.
Thankyou Harry
Look forward to more information
I feel educated when I listen to your knowledge of farming
Have a good weekend 👍💪🏻
First time I have watched your channel, really well presented. Subscribed 👍
Don't know how you cope with it...but cope with it you do! Great work.
WOW thank you yes very much enjoyed this video.
Brilliant I find these episodes very interesting
Well done Harry and all who help you.
Love watching the channel especially now as it’s getting down to the sharp end of things
Interesting as always, and delivered with a balanced common sense view of the real world. Good luck for the harvest.
Interesting and informative as usual. Hope it dries up for harvest.
More vids please, good analysis and always interesting
I envy your rain. Here on the Cardigan Bay coast it’s only in the last ten days we have had a few heavy showers and although the grass is starting to have some colour, it is still drastically dry. So dry that all my silage fields are still being grazed and are yet to be shut for the essential second cut. First cut was early May and we have had very little rain since. All the fertiliser applied after first cut might as well have been bet on some horses as I’ve lost about £10,000 on it due to lack of moisture.
Don't worry about it harry , by the sounds of how many cars you have and your life style i would give farming up .
You should stop going out and begging for Rain Harry I just knew it wouldn't stop when you said that 🤣🤣Best of luck with Harvest anyway and thanks for all you videos on here and the Garage just love it.
Love this stuff learn so much
Exceptionally interesting video, thanks.
Always interesting and obvs well presented.
Always enjoy Harry & his factual presentation we live in rural south west more dairy & livestock than arable down here best wishes for a decent crop 🚜⛅
Good luck with Harvest Harry hope the weather comes good and yields are better than average 🤞🏼.
It's been a funny old year, Harry. And it not over yet!
thanks for another great video(plus kudos to the sound and camera person)Problems here in B.C. Canada with no rain since June ,many crops and farmers in trouble.(I think oil seed rape was renamed here to Canola !) I don"t feel enough attention was paid in the climate change chatter to the effects on the food production,and related supply issues. I think some wake up calls may finally get through .Miss my days working on a farm too. (Essex 1974) Cheers.
Great video thanks
Stanley having a field day!
Fantastic 👍
Once again ,first class ,so knowledgeable..should be advising DEFRA on farming.
2 combines out around Lechlade this morning and still not rained now, but you'd thought it would. Good luck.
Thanks.
Decisions, decisions. It's a fascinating watch this channel.
Ta for the update 🙂
Harry, I really enjoy these farm videos. I now live in usa so very interested to get perspective on what’s going on in England . I watch Laura’s farm ( usa) while different the comparison is fascinating .
Cheers Warren
Thank you h
Glad we’ve got no barely or osr this year, still got two weeks to wait for our wheat here
Hi Harry. Always love watching your videos, "field mice and....random Stanley bounces out of the wheat !!!!
i have a question for you.
Being in the mining industry myself I often are at farms supporting the drilling of waterwells. Is this something you have considered and i know you need an extraction license when pumping over 20m3 /day. A hydrologists fee to survey is around £1000 and the drilling is an average of "140 per meter. (I have contacts there 😉).
My thinking is with a good storage system and available artesian water, you could keep on top of the dry areas when needed. I know you will have investigated this, but i was interested to know if you have or considered this.
We could do with some of that rain here in Southern Spain, it's been boiling, highest standing temperature in the car 50°. Domestic water shortages already and expecting to be cut off over summer the same as last year.
I,ve been wanting some information on the coming harvest ,having worked on a farm for 3mths in the mid eighties drying wheat and barley and milking 26 freudian cow,s I thoroughly enjoyed it
Stanley needs his own show, what a guy!
Random thoughht...imagine if you did a dry ice treatment on the combine? It'd take so long and so much dry ice. lol Always enjoy the vids Harry, thank you.
I had no idea until watching your channel and Clarkson's Farm that Cows are escape artists who seem to enjoy causing significant amounts of mayhem. I don't know why I find it so funny!
Keep producing food Harry, things are only going to get worse with these endless wars !
That’s a better forecast from the last crop season specially for us down in south Atlantic , at least it’s raining there hope we too next summer
I think the dog should get more screen time, looks a proper character.
Your sprayer man takes pride in his work. Some lovely tramlining
Luckily for Harry, I decided to take my summer holiday 2 weeks early this year and as usual, the dry spell broke and it pissed down. 😂
Sounds like you forfeited your holiday weather to keep Harry happy! Thank you from a 'Metcalfe groupie'.😁😁
We need a video of you and Clarkson discussing current farming issues that the two of you have been experiencing.
Crickey. You’ve more movement in prices and budgets than the seam bowlers in the current test series!
It has been great weather for us. Good crop of grass this year so i suppose its pretty good for us
How interesting. You and Clarkson need to do a farming video.
Same on our farm here in Cornwall 🙄 it's hurting...
One month ago, “Crops want some rain.” Ah, the good old fickle UK weather. 😅
About time. 😂
Here in West Cumbria the farmers have harvested their winter barley
Any thoughts on published fertilizer company profits? I think it maybe shows where some of the food inflation is coming from.
Harry we will have a late summer this year, I suggest cropping close to October.
Snap with the combine. I’ve found that washing it only allows water in to places it shouldn’t get. So now it’s a case of just blowing it off really well after harvest and putting it away till next year.
Stanley, star of the show 😍
How are the P.V panels working out on the farm Harry?
Some great information here as usual. I'm always impressed to hear that the weather is always 'wrong' for farmers....!
Happy Cows Happy Farm, cheers Harry
barley done, on OSR now in south wales. some on wheat already !
What a fantastic machine. Need a bit of sun though as well. Interesting re Ukraine and grain prices.
Farm local to us grew some Bazooka Barley. It germinated well and grew strongly but soon showed signs of serious grass contamination. Reading up on Bazooka apparently one of its selling points is strong weed, grass suppression. I have seen this field over the years and never seen Rye grass in with the crops. It must have been contaminated seed as far as I can see. Further more the grain fill looked very poor at harvest. Who'd be a farmer😫😫
Sir Harry, as well as a garage full of wonder-full machines now you have a farm as well, i must say your miles a head of Jeza the Clarkson, i wood have loved you on Top Gear, and get rid of Captan Slow the Hamster wood get Dawarft between you and Jeza sorry for any bad spelling I'm dyslexic have a nice day 👍 just hit the Subscribed button 👍
Iv heard Clarkson had them deers, sold some in his shop and stuffed the rest in his big belly.
"Stanley! Talk to me!" - Ford Fairlane
Nova soctia , we have had 350mm in June and over 200mm in july so far. Lots of rain hay crop is in bad shape. Cheers
Glad someone is making some money
The combine harvester is worth how much? 500,000GBP? The farm doesn’t appear to be that big. Don’t farmers collectivise capital costs in the UK?
Hi Harry, how about an update on the economic benefits of your solar panels since we’ve had decent sunshine so far this year? 😊
Farmers are the Salt of the Earth. Keep politicians as far away from them as possible.
Hi Harry. As you well know, a weather forecast, be it by human or super computer, is a best guess not a promise!
Thanks for the video. It was very clear that the war was going to impact food prices. But there is something very wrong with our relationship to food and what it costs.
I do wonder how food production was managed before the supermarket supply chains took over.
Who decided how must grain needed to be planted or was it just luck that we had enough?
Thoughts on Roundup. Do you have to use it? are there other options? There is some evidence that many of the modern health problems were triggered as its use became more widespread. It cannot be that good for you guys doing the spraying.