FARM UPDATE 238 Weaving drill demo, liquid nitrogen on wheat, solo and drill old beet land 

Good to see field work going on after the relentless wet on the lighter land. Barry is a brilliant machine operator. Your treatment from the grain buyers just sums up the treatment we seem to get as farmers, just like dealing with supermarkets or some of the potato packers. It’s always interesting to see how they use quality as a get out. Same potatoes on two successive days. One day can we have extra, the next day a quality issue! Guy Watson of Riverford organic growers is having a serious campaign with over one hundred thousand supporters challenging the supermarkets treatment of growers. Many thanks for all your Waffles.

Cracking update again Andrew. All that money knocked off the barley which is rubbish, ask them to send it back and I bet they already used it 😡 those weaving drillls are good bits off kitt aren’t they? Glad to see you got some field work done. Keep the good videos coming 😊

Thanks for the inclusion Andrew, always good to see you. We went on to a Sabre demo in west Wales on Friday, but having driven through persistent rain today I think the drill will be standing at ease for another few days. Look forward to hearing how the crops come up!

great update barry done great job on the dykes well done barry

Brilliant video Andrew,im really impressed with the way you farm,a lot of pride involved and attention to detail.

Thanks Andrew. Even as a none farmer it's good to see you getting out on the land after the wet old winter. Good to understand how the weather can impact on sale prices a year down the line and months after harvest.

I store about 1000ton of barley and frontier bought it last year at 240 + malting premium at 310. Contract was for all to go in November, a little bit went, Then February came they finally started collecting again all of a sudden the loads started getting rejected for bugs so it was diverted to be cleaned then after that they said the germination was gone so we had it tested by open field and they confirmed the samples we good for malting. Next thing they rejected the loads for ergot yet no other loads had ever been rejected for that. When we got the load report we found a load missing good job I have cameras and can rewind to find the lorry number plates. It seems to be they can just do what they want.

Glad to see your moving to the dark with the weaving. Gives a great finish and gives ye more options

Another fantastic update really good to get out and do some landwork. The weaving drill looks a nice bit of kit. Hope the weather keeps settled and you can get all your crops in looking forward to the next update

Great video. Weaving drill very impressive.

Good to see some land work on the farm. Really liked the Fendt and Weaver setup. Again I say it, what a great job Barry is doing. Good to see the RX at work, just out of interest watching 1 of Olly's videos with his new Quadtrac, he talks about fuel consumption when working his land. I know you have mentioned in a previous video about your old Quadtrac and fuel consumption compared to the RX. Anyway Andrew, thanks for another great video.

That's a nice drill, very impressive, we run 2 vaderstad and 2 kuhn /accord combination drills for wetter conditions, but this looks very handy. We are still waiting for it to dry up here in Kent, had another inch on Tuesday and half inch today(Sunday), luckily only got 30ha of spring barley to do, thanks for another interesting video, hope all well up your way, regards Simon

Great update Andrew, soil looks in good condition given all the rain, free flow doing a great job as usual , nice job by Barry. Don't forget to put some bait on the drill for the mice!!!!

Absolutely cracking drills the weavings Andrew, having used the kv and weaving tine drills, I really do rate the weaving. See what you mean about the pendulum on the sprayer is a bit over reacting. Really smart looking sprayer though. That job would be perfect if I could only convince the wife to leave a newborn grandson behind in Cornwall and move up 😭 great update once again, those charges for grain are always absolutely scandalous

Very interesting to see you trying out the Weaving Sabre Tine drill again. I bought one back in October 2022 based on a number of factors. Allowing contractor to be included in the Government FETF scheme. So getting a £25K grant making the Sabre drill nearly half price. Looking for a drill which can be used direct into stubble or into moved ground. Also a drill that is more flexible and can be used in conditions that would stop a trailed drill with packer wheels. I have to say that my decision to go for the Weaving drill was very much helped by the demo of the 10 drills you organised. Also, the follow up results ranging from crop establishment to the final yield. I have not been disappointed with the choice I made!

Great update Andrew , nice to see you getting on with the spring work. Lets hope it stays dry so you can get on with your heavy land work, hopefully you can get somewhere with the barley penalty .

yes, this is the kinda farm channel I want to see,like the details with good editing , cheers!

I’ve Been running a 6meter sabre tine for 4 seasons great drill

Really good video this morning nice to see a Fendt working

Great video Andrew, that seed went into a perfectly prepared seed bed, great to see after the rain its coming up rally good. I afraid to say not surprised to hear about your troubles with Frontier, they have no scruples when it comes to dealing with there customers, they are not well liked in Scotland, and that's coming from a former employee, just keep your eye on them.

Another fantastic video Andrew always worth watching

A great video Andrew it good to see you in the Field, I went up the Field this afternoon at it was so wet. Lots of heavy rain again 😮

Both drills doing a great job Barry has sorted your beck's out

Another great farmer working not sitting on his ars living off the state

Good watching. Nice to see some land work going on

I hope you got your own nitrogen test on the malting barley, the merchants will reject any crop bought for high price if they can get some cheaper else where.

Nice to see you taking maximum advantage of the gps by drilling the headlands last Andrew, I asked a farmer in ohio about 3 yrs ago why he was,nt doing the same with his a soybean planter ( he was using gps and complained that he had been rained off mid field , by the time he resumed he was destroying headland seedlings) he replied it could,nt be done, however , last spring he filmed himself mapping boundaries so some clever american must have educated him ... :)

Wanna get you Barry in charge of environment agency. Getting the job done. The greens wth the clipboards would argue your harming wildlife but mr mole hasn't let him bother him. They need to realise that farmers create an abundance of food that help the wildlife along.

Great video Andrew, love to see the drilling started.

More rain for us yesterday and last night so still sitting on our hands, very envious ! Sabre tine v's freeflow, interesting to see results.

Hello Andrew. Great to see you’ve been cracking on with spring work. It looks like it’s gone in incredibly well too. Like you say, the advantage of having some light land up on the heath. We had two dry days here in Cornwall. Managed to get some bits done in the fields. Wanted to get some fertiliser on the wheat but it was too windy to spread using the spinner. Now it’s back to the heavy rain again. It’s all starting to get a bit desperate down here in the south west. Hopefully there’s a weather window next week? Just touching on the barley you had stolen from you by the feed merchant/ mill. Quite offended they’ll add water to it if it’s going into a feed blend, so with it being just slightly over on moisture I can’t see it will make much difference to them. Just a reason to not pay you what it’s worth? Fingers crossed you manage to get somewhere with that. It all comes back to what the other sectors are doing, I mean if the our milk price went up then the arable price would too, slight signs of milk moving in the right direction, so possibly it’ll have a knock on come this year’s harvest? The weaving drill looks good! We’ve got a kvereland version, it will plant in almost any conditions. Plus you can always run both machines if you wanted to get a lot done in a short space of time, or have the 8RX cultivating and one of your other tractors planting if the weather window was really short. Barry is a master man on the digger. What a great job he’s doing, I can only imagine what the do gooders/ environmentalists would say? 😂 Fingers crossed the weather stays reasonable good for you guys up there. 👍

Great video again 👍🏻

Hi Andy, brilliant piece of kit that drill. Top driver that Barry looks a really good job done I bet your pleased with the results.? You`ve got some great tacle. How is Henry`s land draining going,? Totally agree with your hopper method. Thanks for the videos. J

Great seed bed where you were putting it the spring barley.

Great video Andrew

Makes me so angry that farmers are treated this way when selling crops, produced after all this bad weather, then get beaten down on price. If it's not the supermarkets beating down the price it's something else. It's about time we stopped all these imports, stood on our own two feet and became a self-sufficient island with good quality home-produced food. Rant over. Great video Andrew, many thanks

Morning good video just always make me anxious watching you guys drilling 😂 as we have really heavy land which is still not dry enough to travel 👍

Hope you got all that you needed to before the rain. We've got a bit more rain this morning and overnight here in East Norfolk

The 724 in my opinon is the best all rounder you can buy at the moment! But not buying anything if millers are screwing you down! They definitely need exposing! Thats early 90s prices! Absolutely terrible!

Hi nice to see you on the land, rain here today,

Great job sowing Andrew, love the way you spend time getting the seedbed right, unlike other RU-vids who just bang it in no matter what.

Good job you boys aren't on white diesel. We are in Groundworks, costing the job a fortune and having to pass it on to customer. Thats if they can afford the job !!

That’s the only and best way to apply nitrogen , even in a decent wind . Great

Tidy digger work 👌🏻

Our lot where I work have 1 of them weaving drills, don’t know anything about it as I’m on the construction side driving the diggers 👍

Great update, I’m no expert but to me the soils are looking beautiful! What’s on the to-do list over the next few weeks? Drilling, drilling and more drilling or other jobs?

If I remember correctly my father got £115 per tonne for barley in 1984.

24:43 great content again

What mixture of soils across your land, I find it’s great too see everyone’s blogs while I’m laid up healing after an operation, and difference between the drills, one with packers other not, are they the same crop? Or does it depending on land? Very informative,

Good grief Andrew , I was selling feed barley in the 80s / 90s to my local mill in Northamptonshire , and my imputs then were around 60- 70pounds per tonne , that’s terrible for you ,and unfair . I feel awful for you .😤

Hi Andrew, another good video... have you ever thought about Borage as a spring crop, late drilling date, high margins and guaranteed contract price.... Where I work we have that Weaving drill and have good results.

Nice to see suffolk coulters making a come back lol

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Remote control 12v actuator or hydraulic cylinder would mean you wouldn’t need to be any where near the hopper to empty it. Win win.

50% grant must make that drill look sensible money. Uve got till mid April to decide i guess

always been strange how weaving dont let you drive the drill when its a demo, although we got a gd 4000t and it works well in all conditions

Hi Andy, just wondering how a 6m drill would work with a 32m sprayer. Would you need to go for a 6.4m drill if you went to purchase one? Thanks for the great update.

Covering some serious ground with that drill how long dose it take to do all your drilling when the ground is good to keep at it continuously when conditions are good

That heap of black square bales round the beet pad will be worth more than the beet this year.

I forgot to say , the barley I was selling in the 80s - 90 s was between £120 - 130 .

I always have said it`s better to set the headlands last and not 1st. But that's just me.

may I ask how much is the travel speed of the John Deere with the traks?

Remember Andrew dad telling me about grandad selling some malting barley and getting it rejected they brought it back a few days later the buyer rang grandad they were sending it for feed for less money they asked the driver where it was going he said to a malsters grandad went spare also the barly you sold would no doubt go through the mill and not dried bet they didn't lower the price to the customer for high moisture and low bushel waight its a con

Great content again Andrew will you be rolling the Spring Barley in at all?

Looking in the new drill with all the air / seed pipes from the centre bit it reminded me of something from an Alien movie. Is it coincidence then that they have called it Weaver after Sigourney Weaver and more scary can you believe that the Alien movie is 45 years old

absolute pi55 take on both counts, going to a feed mill,first thing after it's milled would be a trip through the steamer and as for specific wieght, can understand it for going on a boat for export,or in the days of intervention but straight to a mill,a ton is a ton surely? always someone outside of the farm gate ready to dibble a bit out of the job

Frontier Grain locally known as the Great Grain Robbers .

I bet the mark-up they make on the seed will be greater than yours- the worlds gone mad, fairness in life no longer exists

Can you test your sample of barley that was taken from the lorry before it left you

Isnt it a pain in the butt to have the distribution tower in the tank? You have to dig it out, if it blocks, dont you? Great vid

What is different between ploughing and soloing no need reply say on next video

These claims are getting ridiculous now Andrew. A friend sent a load of feed barley which was allegedly 15.7% he requested a retest, no problem, but that would be a cost of £62! There’s no doubt what the second test would have been.

I feel that's very naughty re the wheat as you take samples before it. I also feel that you should be honoured the feed price of the day you sold the wheat?

I'll bet you a pound to a penny Andrew that they never put your barley through a drier but still knocked £6 pound a ton of.

Somethinnk I want to know have you two mx John deeres ? Because. Your wouldn't cope in a busy season with one .

fight those deductions ,

Inputs costing more; Outputs generating less - and Buyers playing silly buggers. The only free thing there's more of is rain. Who'd be a Framer? No Farmers. No Food, No Future.

Don’t get me started on claims!! We had a £28/ton deduction on the very last load of wheat out of the store because they allegedly found some ergot despite having found none in any of the previous loads. £13/ton to redirect it a few miles down the road & £15/ton to clean it. That hurt - a lot. And we only found out about the claim two days after the load left the farm.

Why can't a sample be taken from each load before it leaves the farm and you get paid on result of that sample? Then if moisture or anything else is wrong with it you can rectify it before it leaves the farm.

any chance of seeing a photo of you, shovelling up that mud left on road by the drill? From A Concerned Cyclist

You won't buy much of a drill at £130 A ton. Can you imagine the general public having a cut in there wages. And nothing they can do about it. All your costings with a laptop means nothing in the end. Farming is controlled by the weather.. somethinnk a laptop can't do..

hi andrew. im 16 next week. my dream is to be a farm owner. is it possible for me to become a first generation farmer with say 600-1000 acres at some point from starting with nothing. do you know anyone who has done this?

Is the Ukraine situation affecting price levels or volatility ?

The thumbs down is not for you it's this bloody government and the indersty 😢

76 kg / ha

Who will take over the farm when you retire Andrew ??

Scandalous claim on the barley.

I share your pain re down graded malting barley - a man could swear!!

im hacked off for you buddy , when you look what you put into , all the kit, staff , stewardship the list goes on , then you get clobbered like that , unreal , chin up and all that , can only get better

ASDA'S,blowing wardy's money everyday 🤬💩

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