2020 harvest is back on track plus how UK farming will change dramatically post Brexit 

Harry should stand for election in David Cameron’s old constituency of Witney. Publishing a set of farm accounts showing revenue and costs by crop and field would help educate people why farmers are asset rich but cash poor.

Thanks for the insight into the financial side of arable farming, no wonder younger members of farmer families are turning away from this livelihood, sad!

Thank you Harry for the explanation and it is really telling how delicate Farming actually is within this Country. I always try to buy British if I can.

I love this as a non farmer . It helps me understand what my local farmers are doing. Incredible work. So much dependent on nature, not horsepower.

We are a aussie family living in UK, but the last 8 mins of this video means I will be looking for British farmed produce from flour to veg etc, came from the car channel and now more educated

NO FARMING NO FOOD NO FUTURE !! When will the politicians ever learn !! Keep up the the good work Harry !!

We need food security so need to support UK farmers and UK manufacturing

It's great to hear someone who can talk intelligently and eloquently about what it takes to run a farm and how upcoming UK law could effect all of us.

Always amazed me how cheap a loaf if bread is considering. Should we not be paying more for our food to ensure home grown and produced produce and removing farmers reliance on govt subsides?

Support for Britain’s farmers is a fundamental.

Excellent vid, Harry. I agree with your view about the CV19 pandemic...one of the key learnings should be that this country needs to be more self sufficient and good responsible farmers like yourself should be encouraged to grow more food for our own needs. Contracting out to other countries is irresponsible & leaves you desperate for goods when things go wrong and we are not making things for ourselves as we have seen. 👍🏻

How can I be so hooked up on farmer's drama? Loving these updates mate. Glad u guys had some proper rain... keep us posted!

Hi Harry Your latest video prompted me to sign the NFU petition. Prior, I knew nothing about it. Perhaps others will do the same. A very important issue.

When I saw all the Dakar bikes on the Harry's Garage channel I thought to myself "what an odd choice for a collection, he can't possibly be riding all those". Fast forward a year or so and I get into watching videos about english farming, for the life of me I still don't know why, maybe nostalgia from my young years living not too far away from Harry's place, up at Watford Gap, and now I know what all the bikes are for, farm runarounds. Them there be working bikes. I'm just happy you can't fit a cow into a Countach.

Great vid , My Mate has being waiting 6 yrs for a crop in Australia that's a drought

As usual Harry, you have a great ability to put what is a complicated matter in terms for the layman to understand. My local (small) farmer friends in Hampshire here, are trialing all sorts of alternatives including commercial flower growing in order to plan for a future without subsidies. Thank you for Harry’s Farm, your should really be on Countryfile, representing middle England and your colleagues. But of course the BBC wouldn’t want that sort of balanced and informed view.

Hurray its here it's like waiting for xmas morning for this video!! Cheers Harry!!

Another excellent Video Harry. I'm sure all of us remember the Horse meat scandal a few years ago when a certain Supermarket chain was found to be buying cheap 'Beef' from abroad which turned out to be Horse meat that was not meant to go into the food chain. We now buy all our meat from our local Butchers. Since the Lockdown we have made the decision to get our bread from the local Bakers and our veg from the Greengrocers. It might cost a bit more but tastes a whole lot better and also helps to keep these smaller shops in business. I didn't realise until fairly recently that the bread in Supermarkets is steamed not baked!!! If we have buy all our food from abroad not only will the quality be suspect we could be held to ransom over the price of it.

Thank you Harry, another excellent video. Politians!!! We started using local farm shops during lockdown and guess what, the quality is better than any supermarket, the guys are pleased to see us and know where their produce has come from. I will never eat supermarket bacon again. Just off to sign the NFU petition.

Good stuff Harry. Good to see crops doing better, the payment disappearance will be the nail in farmings coffin I’m afraid. Consumers won’t want to pay more for food, neither will countries that import the food/goods.

Harry, you must get on the TV and explain all this to the general public! As a fellow farmer I feel your pain and try to on a local level to get this across to my neighbours!

Cheers from a fellow farmer in Finland, We are quite curious about how this brexit thing is going to turn out for you, and i have sense british farmes will suffer quite badly. In my country we pride ourselves of having possibly the cleanest food in the EU since we use a very low amount of pesticides, and it has shown during the pandemic that local food production is all suddenly very valuable, but are people prepared to pay more for it? The struggle here is much the same as for you.. If people would have to pay the actual prices for growing and processing the yield, there would be an outcry! All the very best to you harry and i hope you can continue your farm after this mess in your country. I follow your channel with interest. It´s always interesting to compare methods, yield outcome and techniques between the different climates.

Petition signed Harry and righty so too, big fan of homegrown produced at high standards. farming is such a rollercoaster of an profession and with such tight margins, even on good harvests, either the British public understand where their food comes from and pays accordingly to support the industry or suffer from imported goods with lower standards. Education is key for people and Harry you do a great job to explain it in a unbiased way. Please keep the educational content coming.

NFU petition signed. I always buy local when possible (luckily I have two butchers in my small town), but must admit that shocked me when Harry was talking about food production moving overseas so we could meet climate change targets. Unfortunately politicians (of ALL parties) will always be short sighted as they just want to win the next election. Hopefully coronavirus will wake a few of them up. In the meantime Harry, I have a pallet sized herb garden outside my flat that could do with a visit from your mate with his sprayer!

I got hooked on your channel last fall i farm on Vancouver Island no subzidies except when a herd of Elk walked into a lovely crop of peas and flattened them they payed me 20% of the expected crop. Dont retire I'm 72 and even if i dont make a profit I feel privileged to have the opportunity to do something I love,.

Your skylark impression was uncanny, Harry; the spirit of Percy Edwards lives on in you!

Local food production should be considered important everywhere, not just in the England or the EU. Buy local if you can everyone!

I’ve been online and signed the petition Harry,it’s so important we produce our own food in this country.Great you are using RU-vid to get this important message across,Chris

I spent my career in automotive design and development. I am now retired and living in Thailand. I love your farm reports as different as they are to our rice farm here. Please keep these reports coming, if you ever travel here stop by and give us the benefit of your experience. Swap you for the best rice in the world

The weather alone would be enough to cope with. Survive in spite of the politicians, not because of them. Great Video Harry, many thanks!

Thanks for explaining the current politics of growing food on farms in the UK. I never realised how hard it is to make a decent living tilling the fields. I admire your fortitude in sticking with it and hope our local MP is watching Harry’s Fsrm - Chris Skidmore stand up.

Starting my day with a visit from Harry. So it's a good day!

Always a comfort to watch you Harry, especially now, on your farm... Thank you for such a joy to even believing working with you on your farm🧡🌞🕊️🌞🧡

Farming must be fantastically enjoyable to put up with all this bureaucracy or do you have a special room to scream and shout in

Hello 'Harry', whether its your 'Garage' or your 'Farm' the content is just so interesting, the 'Farm' explains things I have would not normally ever of consided, really very good information, plus info on the 'bike' collection. Regards, RichardA

I've always had an urge to support farmers. I am glad you took the time to do this video

I remember Belgian beef coming into the country many years ago , the Vet called it turbo beef because it was so full of steroids and growth hormones ! Let’s make very sure we don’t go back to that.

Since following your 'Harry's farm' channel I have become quite obsessed with the weather forecast...I guess that's a huge part of a farmers life.

Bravo for discussing the difficult political and environmental issues directly. I’ve learnt more from this single video than all all of Farming Today episodes combined.

I don't even have a farm yet I'm strangely drawn to this channel. 🤔 Keep the great videos coming!

After getting so much rain in London, I have been waiting for an update video every day! Glad to see your farm is doing well!

Harry it would be interesting to get your views on what English land prices will do in the coming few years, given these changes.

From somebody that has zero knowledge about farming this is an excellent insight into the financial side of farming. Good luck with your crops.

You're good Harry. I'm in Montreal, Canada. Have 1 cherry tomato plant on my balcony, yet I'm listening to you explain farming in great detail from across the pond.

You explained that so well. I'm a farmer in Ireland and it makes us as cross seeing all the shite coming into Ireland from far flung places. Huge amount of co2 from air miles and screws up the rain forests

How much I actual love seeing those legendary bikes getting some local usage in such an unique and important way, I think you should try out a modern electric one too one day and of course film it, think it would be fun, cool... and quiet. Absolutely love your videos by the way. Greetings from Sweden.

Wonderful Harry, I bet you are the only person in the world who rides off road wearing a Patek Annual Calendar! I love that you don´t baby your watches, you give them the life they were designed for. I hope one of the complications watchmakers at Patek sees this as it will make them very happy to know their watch is being worn this way rather than gathering dust in a safe!

very informative as usual. I live in rural Lancashire and I am friendly with our local farmer but didn't know the details Harry has explained. Thanks

Love the channel, please keep making videos. The explanation is probably going to do more to build bridges between people and give us a view from your lens. Thanks so much!

The use of Roundup as a dessicant is well known, as are it's extremely toxic properties. Isn't there a better way to do this without poison as doesn't it end up in our bodies too?

Don't apologize for being 'technical' and explaining costs etc; it's why I watch Harry's Farm and it gives me a better insight into the pros and cons. Half the farming world seem to be chuffed about Brexit and the other half anti so the more that you explain the technicalities, the more we laymen can form our own judgements.

Another helpful explanation, thanks Harry. The CO2 emissions for importing food need to be considered also, any food miles add to the environmental cost. I'm not convinced the govt. wants to consider some of the complexities in certain decisions, a sound bite might get into the news - but that's all.

Better news for you Harry,and thanks for all you do.I just signed the NFU petition...............

Glorious video cheers, always a pleasure to join you riding your motorcycle.

Hi Harry. The public need to know the detail in your Vlog, I didn’t and I am amazed to say the least. If people really knew in layman’s terms the state of the industry more ordinary people would get behind British Farmers as I do not believe any of us want to see our glorious countryside become redundant and all of our produce imported from around the world. Thank you for a very important & informative video. Nick

Always one to look forward to. Many thanks Harry. I must say that I really don't understand why we would not grow our own food. Ok, it may be cheaper to import some things but to rely on other countries to supply us with good quality product when we are going through the current Brexit thing seems a bit suicidal to me. Perhaps I'm being naive?

Just signed the petition Harry. Didn't know about that one. Agree that after what's happened this year, we need to carry on with producing goods and food in this country 👍

Thanks Harry. I worry about UK food security and I don’t see a government plan to achieve it. I feel sorry for UK farmers, it’s a tough business.

Outstanding explanation again Harry. From the comments you really are developing a devoted following to this content. More people interested in tractors than you first thought?

Another great and informative video Harry. If there are any petitions or similar that the public can sign or tick boxes to help our farmers please put a link in the description. I’m sure we would all like to help as much as we can.

It's good to see other people's way of farming, we're a small beef cattle farm with a large arable neighbour who has been saying in the next 5 years we will see be changes in farming. (Smart farms in Gloucestershire if you've ever heard of them :D)

Very informative videos, joy to watch & enjoy the bikes!

Watching your channel has made me so much more conscious of the weather , given that I am about 40 miles from your place. It rained, I thought "yay, harrys farm needs this". And that 44mm was heavy, gutters and drains blocked but now its lovely😀. So, can I stop Mrs D from stocking up on bread flour? And having watched the whole of the video I know you don't have a clue!! Nice one harry!!

I subscribed to the NFU petition a few days ago and your video has reinfinforced the importance of making that decision. I sincerely hope its successful but I have my doubts.

Love watching these video`s, reminds me of many years on the land as a youngster, thank you Harry.

As a Canadian living in a farming community (Westlock Alberta) I really like Harry's updates on his farm, really cool stuff. Here it's not uncommon for a farmer to have a crop size over a 1000 acres. We have different names for the same crop too, for instance at the beginning of this video he was commenting in his crop of Linseed, that we would call Flax. It's weird that when wheat here comes up after heavy rains we see an abundance of thistle too, although there are plenty of herbicides to deal with it if it gets too bad they are getting resistant to many applications, here we see a lot of mixing with a base generally of 2,4-D and another like Tordon as an example. I've never heard of a government mandate that tells farmers they need to grow 3 crops for greening purposes, seems like kind of daft idea to me. As a kid when I used to work for my neighbor on his place he's have 160 acres put to hay (which I had to mow, windrow, square bale, stook and then pick up and put the bales under tarps or in a pole shed unless he had a summer with more than two cuts, then he sold his extra.) A field of maybe 40-80 acres for flax (I always liked the blue flowers) or mustard etc. as a crop, than maybe another 80-160 acres on summer fallow (where you don't grow anything and let the earth rest) and then his big crops of wheat, oats and rye he used to farm 6 sections of land (a smaller family farm). Anyway, thanks for the update and a chance to look through different eyes at farming, I hope your crops do well and you have a decent harvest, at least enough to pull a tidy profit from!! Cheers from Canada, - Dave

Love that Honda, brilliant way to get around the farm.

Loving this series of informative videos. Getting the perspective of farmers from what seems a well-informed source without an obvious agenda is so useful in helping cut through the political goings on that grab the headlines. It’s also entertaining, perhaps not in a Clarkson style but with a reassuring, authoritative and casual approach.

Amazing hearing how ridiculously tight the margins are for farmers, really appreciate you going into the details and politics. Fascinating. Hopefully the UK public become more aware after this pandemic

QUESTION PLEASE : What pricing power do farmers have ? Can tariffs be placed on imports ? Is it reasonable to expect the final customer to directly pick up the tab for the missing subsidies by 2027 ? Why is farming not a bigger issue at election times nationally ? What is the average size of arable farms in the UK ? To a layman, it appears to be a lot of effort and worry to farm 450 acres for a gross margin of GBP15,000. I imagine with a smaller holding, the probability of profit is even lower. As older farmers die off, are younger people coming into farming, or are farms consolidating ? Do farmers have to be able to support themselves independently from the farm for practical purposes ? What will happen to the price per acre for arable land between now and 2027 ? These videos are really great to help us city dwellers understand what's happening to the economies of the areas that we drive through at weekends for a break from the city.

Your explanation of the figures is the best bit for me. I started watching this with NO IDEA at all how much this all makes but can see the risks of that business from the outset. Really is breadline stuff and not feasible if you don’t own the land

Really hope you get a good yield and looking forward to the next video.

Absolutely adoring hearing about agricultural crops from Mr. Metcalfe.

Thanks again Harry, very informative. Britain needs to produce as much of its own food as possible.

Nowt to do with farming, but I really, really love to see a man who's MAN enough to ride a QUIET MOTORBIKE. No screaming two-stroke angst or tiresome adolescent throttle twiddling to compensate for... er, well, you know... certain male confidence 'issues'. I'm not even a biker [I'm a very minor ex amateur club-level rally driver] but I do know that a grown-up motorbike burbles quietly to itself because it's confident that it can get the job done and has absolutely nothing to prove. That skylark (ascending) didn't stir till Harry was almost on top of it. Nice!

Harry your explanation of farm finance helps a mere layman, let’s hope Government help you and others to keep growing food rather than trees and huge imports of food we can and should grow ourselves,glad I signed NFU petition last week.

Enjoyed the success of the farm, I also fully appreciate your son's desire to retain the dusty patina on the twin. Having spent 3 weeks touring the land of Botswana and Namibia I didn't wash the Tiger for months..same rationale..

Great channel - I’ve been binge watching today! Completely get the point of the Dakar rally bikes - just perfect for getting around a farm!

Totally agree Harry that food produced as locally as possible makes the most sense, from both a food security perspective and environmentally. I see where some of our supermarket veg cones from (Kenya for example) and I often think ‘How is this environmentally friendly when it’s had to be transported thousands of miles with the corresponding emissions?’ I appreciate it may help the economies of some of these poorer nations and obviously if it’s something that can’t be grown here, fair enough, but when it’s just green beans or sugarsnap peas, it seems crazy. A really interesting update. Thanks for the insight into the politics of farming today. Glad to see your wheat has recovered. As soon as it started raining I thought Harry will be happy!

This is the best channel on RU-vid, I love these videos Harry, great combination of update bikes and education.

An excellent insight into the rural economy.

Brilliant video Harry as always, thanks for posting. The financial side of farming just seems nuts to me! Could you do a video on how you use an Agronomist, and the advice they come out with?

Great video Harry, really interesting. You're a credit to your profession.

Fingers crossed for maintaining our current food and farming standards in the UK. I hope the politicians will come to their senses and drop all the US import nonesense.

Harry, I have to say I really enjoy your videos. Extremely informative - I’ve learned so much from your content from the basics of how to build a dry stone wall to this current episode regarding the financial aspect of a 450 acre farm. One thing that always confuses me is the price of land when it is not possible to make above the living wage. And that’s including the CAP payment. Here in Ireland people pay above and beyond what land is worth. I suspect in some cases it’s a post colonial mindset that drives us to be land hungry. In other cases it makes sense from a tax perspective. But I don’t know of any other business where someone can pay extortionate money and be happy that in the knowledge that they’ll not make anything worthwhile talking about back in their investment. All this and I still want land to call my own!

How did I stumble upon Harry's Farm? Glad I did, perhaps RU-vid knows I love the Archers too. Really informative video's and good to know what's happening just 1/2 hour away.

Another enjoyable "report from the front" and interesting to get an idea on how it all works.

The subsidies that are propping up farming came into place to bring up production. We did that now. It did not improve farmers' bottom line. Since World War 2 most farms have disappeared and been combined into larger and larger, more intensive farms. This has had a negative impact on rural lives and livelihoods and does great damage to the natural environment. No stewardship schemes will change that. We need many smaller diverse farms with high biodiversity and mixed production, which can resist a changing climate and improve soil health. The world is slowly coming around. That's the reason why farming policy seems to be all about the environment now. Big changes are needed, and as usual they will come too slowly until something lights a fire under our asses. Farmers should not have to compete on the world stage, or even with for example EU countries with much lower costs of production. Each country should be largely self sufficient in the crops and foods that it can be.

Very good video. Keep farming in the UK.

Another great video One thing that always baffles me is the price of land... to buy 8-10k per acre it would take 50 years to make it back.. yet there is always a demand.

In Sweden we can sign up for margins that we are not allowed to mowe untill late summer but we can graze them from spring untill autom. Mine are 20 meters wide and I move the cows every day.

Very very interesting H. I walk the fields (bridleways) of Buckingham and Stowe every morning. I have learned so much from watching the channel. Huge thank you. Jus

Brilliant descriptions for the layman as usual.

How about turning your 300 acres all to grassland, putting 600 head of dual purpose cattle out there, and providing meat and dairy to your local community? Thank you for mentioning the Pasture-Fed Livestock Association in your recent video. It led me to finishing Fordhall Organic Farm in Shropshire, near me.

All our MP's need to have this forwarded to them!!!

Thank you Harry, another up to date and very informative video.

Well done with the rain there Harry ,you must of been doing a dance ,someone is watching over you mate. All the best with the harvest.

Phew! Everyday we were checking to see if you had posted a new video and if the rain had come in enough volume - I even got to the stage of thinking of running a sweepstake amongst the family

Best explaination of the practicalities of farming I have ever heard - Thanks!

Well said Harry. Yes if it can be produced by UK farms, we should buy it. We should all look for British Produce when we shop. Locally produced, less mucking about in trucks for weeks, lower carbon footprint. All this should be taught at school so the next generation have more of a insight into farming and how food gets on their plates.