Insight into how we manage the 80acres of organic pasture land on Harry's Farm and why I believe this method of red meat production is sustainable and actually good for the planet.
Actually the teachers could learn a thing or two....... Had loads of school visits over the years, and the comments from teachers have been a real eye opener..... Such as sugar beet..... " But we don't grow sugar in the UK, it's too cold"..... Then there were the potatoes.... " But won't the green ones ripen later?"..... Not much hope for the future
@@paulmarchant9231 Teachers are fine, plenty of children are taught about farming and visit farms. I know I did. It's people like Gove and co. who screw up education.
Fascinating Harry! Think I'm liking these farming videos even more than your car ones! (and that's saying something) Thanks for including us here in Ireland as sustainable beef producers. The eco-mentalists here jumped on that report as a reason to kick the beef farmers. But then they wouldn't like your car videos either 😊 Looking forward to learning more about farming (and cars)!
I just joined and what a bunch of great videos.. Now that I am retired I watch them.. There much better then what is on TV.. Thanks Harry for all you do..
Grass fed all the way for me, I love my bbq's and have always used Grass fed meat! I have not been to a supermarket for so long that I can not remember the last time I bought meat from them! Yes the cost is more but you pay for what you get! Do not get me wrong! I'm no rich man, I believe in animal well being all the way and to save the environment is just important.
The dairy farm I worked on in the 60s kept the cows in sheds over the winter, fed them grains, silage and hay that was all grown on the farm. In the spring the cows went out to controlled graze a filed, the control was an electric fence advanced twice a day during milking. When the fence reach the top of the field then cows went into field two and so on. Field one then had winter bedding spread on it and chain harrowed, the grass growth and second cut, would then be cut as silage or hay for winter feeding. Brewers grains were also used for feeding.
I just think your a model farmer and just a really nice chap I love watching your videos and being someone who has worked on many farms over the years I just love what your doing it's spot on 👍👍🤗
Absolutely wonderful Mr Metcalfe. As your engine builder said, "you lead a charmed life". Cows are so intelligent , they have an enormous brain and we just stick them in a field to eat grass. Ask anyone who has spent time around them and they will confirm their character and propensity to learn through observation.
@alanrtment porter lucky for us that they do taste so good. Without demand there would be less of them. Let us enjoy England and its diverse countryside. As a wise man once said, "tread lightly on this earth"
I too am a huge advocate of organic grass fed beef, we run a 50 head pedigree suckler herd comprised of beef short horns and Sussex cattle, like yours, on the Marlborough Downs escarpment. We couldn’t be happier with how they manage the pasture and also compliment the arable operation, by utilising unsuitable land. Please keep up the good work educating people on the world class job UK farmers do to produce high quality sustainable food
I didn't know that about the sustainable beef production, very interesting! I would still say we need to dramatically cut down on meat consumption though, as that method of beef farming doesn't produce enough meat to meet current demands.
My uncle has a farm in Hampshire which is mostly SSSI Water meadows. He also gave some land to the local community to grow vegetables and fruit they have called it Highbridge community farm which is now on google.
Great video - I think like others I am enjoying Harry's Farm as much/more th an the Garage! Agree with your comments on sustainable beef farming. It's ideal for that steel Cotswold brash, and highly sustainable.
Thank you Harry - a brilliant piece of journalism told at a level that all can understand. You should be commissioned by UK Agriculture to produce a full series and be compulsory viewing in schools. I look forward to seeing future episodes
I have been in the car business for 40 years, and i have always lived in a rural area. Both channels are equally fascinating. Carry on the good work all round!!.
@@morgman43 irrelevant I’m afraid. Google don’t have editorial control on you tube vids. The algorithm only downgrades a vid on swearing / offensive comments
Wonderful video, thanks Harry. I walk around farmland where I'm lucky enough to live in Sussex on a daily basis with my dog, and always watch with interest and amazement during the changing seasons, trying to understand how the farm works, sometimes asking the farmer out of curiosity why things are done. Your videos are refreshing, informative, and a total joy to watch and learn from. I've even recommended to our local farmer this channel!
As someone who has very little idea how farming works I enjoy videos like this quite a lot. I drive tractor trailer a lot through Southern Ontario, Canada and have always wondered how it all works. Keep it up eh
I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed that Harry. As a man bought up on a natural dairy farm in Lincolnshire( sadly no longer) what a delight to see. The stock look fantastic, almost to good, I always struggle with my attachment to any animal but fully respect & appreciate the process. Thank you Harry for such a beautiful insight into land management & traditional beef rearing, Let us not forget. Nick
This was actually beautiful, love your enthusiasm in showing us the different grasses and plants, what a they do and your pride in the organic farming. Tells us a lot about you, in a great way.
Another cracking video Harry ! Did you know they asked a hundred farmers about Days off...ninety five asked what that was ,and five asked if anyone knew what day it was !
Harry your knowledge of farming methods is as large as your knowledge of motoring Irish farmers would do well to have you on their side . Love these videos keep them coming.
I totaly agree with you! It is getting more common to raise cattle this way in Sweden as well. I personaly allways buy my meat at a local farm that have a organic production with Anguscattle. I think that is the future when it comes to meatproduction. We need the animals on our pastures to keep the biological balance as well. Thank you for a very educating and objective you tube channel!!
Harry, thank you for sharing. I urge you to research Allan Savory and Holistic Grazing. His approach takes pasture raising livestock to a higher level.... increasing carbon sequestration from the air, building healthier more nutrient rich soil, improving the water cycle by absorbing more rain and avoiding water run off. Also a good resource is Greg Judy at Green Pastures Farm. Thank you for caring and keep spreading the word!
A great insight into this type of world.....because H does his videos so well, I find myself getting more intrigued!....I'll continue to ride my KTM on greenlanes, but I'll now be more aware of the surroundings and what they are used for more than ever! Keep it up Harry, well done
Hi Harry nice to see a little patch of Rural England, Makes me feel a little homesick! Used to pass down through your way frequently from Northants (Small village all my life) Now live in SW Germany last ten years, and its not quite the same! so nice to see your video,s and i hope many more.Schönes tag noch
Not entirely sold on the divisive issue of -global warming- climate change (or whatever the current prediction is) but this is still definitely a healthier way to raise livestock. Cheers, Harry.
"'We could walk them down the road if we had no diesel fuel.'" Great example of why corporate media is largely obsolete already. Loath sounding common but this channel deserves big Sub 'culture'. :D
If only the people in the media who I have a penchant for a knee-jerk reaction were as levelheaded as the great Harry Metcalf. It doesn’t matter what you’re talking about from cows to cars your passion is undeniable. Thank you for another brilliant educational video I shall continue to follow whatever you do and I have been following you since Evo magazine put schematic drawings of cars engines in their articles.
I have only found your channel this week. I am from a farming background but still enjoy your explanations about machinery, livestock and land. I to have a grey fergi like yours. Looking forward to future videos.
Harry that was brilliant you put this across to the general public first class well done 👍 I am in the same game looking forward to seeing more well done 🇬🇧
Great video, I've actually just graduated from university with an agricultural degree and I've only just come across this youtube channel so I have shared this with my former lecturer's as I'm sure they'll be able to use video's to help teach agric students. Keep up the good work!!!
Hello Harry Well this is such a refreshing change to hearing all the tree huggers who no nothing about how the environment works telling us we must all become Vegans to save the planet and beef production must stop.I have learnt a lot from your video, You would do well in parliament as the voice of farmers Well Done Cheers
I just stumbled across this channel and find it fascinating. It is similar to what I grew up with in the eastern USA. 12:08 all the talk of calves and then twin calves, I thought it was Harry's Garage for a second.
Harry these are great. I am a beef economy in the USA and enjoy seeing your farm and garage. Appreciate all the stewardship you put into it and the very positive joyful face you put on video for our non-farm viewers to see.
You have to hunt hard for grass fed beef here in the US. So I now eat bison exclusively. By law here, they cannot be given antibiotics, hormones and can only be grass fed. It is almost 100% fat free. Expensive as hell though but worth it. I do remember learning some time back that grass fed beef develops a much higher number of amino acids which is much better for us to consume. I'm glad to see that at least one part of the world is using their noggin when it comes to farming. Here cattle are put in small pens and fed large quantities of corn. Bad for the cows and the people that consume them.
Thanks for your videos: I think it's really important to help (vegetarian!) non-farmers like me understand and appreciate how you care for the land and what constitutes good, environmentally conscious management.
Again really really fascinating. Could you please do an episode with Fully Charged show about beef production and CO2 etc. It would be really good to expand on this because it is a fascinating topic. Thank you.
Wonderful video. "The actual mechanics of a cow don't work on slopes" - love it! The notion of "conventional" farming as how things have largely been done in the last 50-100 years (over-working the land, fertilizers, pesticides, GMO, etc.) is backwards and makes traditional and organic/sustainable methods seem the oddball. Conventional farming is what you're describing - what's been done for centuries or millennia.
I come from a farming family in Southern Africa and all our cows a raised naturally eating wild grass. Bringing back memories of my childhood I’ll send this to some of my vegan friends who are borderline climate change extremists. Thanks Harry
Thank you for a very informative video. Growing up and working in both Botswana and South Africa the CO2 issue has not been such a big issue here, as far as I'm aware. Beef is always in high demand in Southern Africa although it is becoming expensive for the lower class to middle class lately. I believe In 2016 South Africa ranked 16 or 18th on the gobal production scale of red meat. Brazil obviously leading the way. We also make use of silage as winter feed as a substitute. This produces a lot a methane compared to grasses. We use this just because it's cheap to produce and what is normally collected after harvesting maze etc. Although the breeds vary much here Bonsmara, Ayrshire, Brahmaan, Jersey and Hereford are some of the favourite breeds here, depending on region. Drought has affected Southern Africa greatly over the decade. Thank you
It's only an issue here because they're using it as an excuse to raise taxes and to reduce certain aspects of society they don't like. The science, despite what they'd have you believe, is far from settled on this. If you listened to all the predictions on the climate, you'd have believed we were going into an ice age in the 70s, half of Europe would be under water by the millennium and that you can solve -global warming- climate change by taxing us.
Absolutely beautiful farmland. New England looks exactly like that where it's still farmed. Thanks to the super flat midwest, most farms in the east have gone back to forest 100 years ago. Some do still remain with a recent surge due to demand for organic locally grown products.
Very good video...Love what you doing here Harry. Was listening to Radio 1 in the combine ealier... Was absolutely shocked at the way the news was discussing "eating meat" to be a comparable sin to burning rainforests / private jets....Where is the NFU / someone to stand up against these arguments? No wonder the young population are getting side tracked....they think its more healthy, and better for the planet to knock down a rainforest half way across the world, grow a crop, ship it back across the world and eat it, than simply eat some local meat, reared in there own countryside, in a field that could be used for nothing other than this anyway.... Totally agree with your points / they need someone like you on the news!! Keep up the good work! (I am also a car guy on a farm with a YT channel!)
It's the beef production in South America that most people are upset with. The majority of the world population couldn't afford the beef you're talking about and that makes it no solution. Cutting back on beef is a definite solution. I enjoyed seeing the farm though 👍
Thank you for doing this channel! I am about to go and learn more about farming for a year (to support my agriculture and construction machinery sales job). Sales is more profitable, but there is something that wants me to do farming instead.
Harry aussie farmers would give their right nut to have grass like that at the moment. I used to sell certified organic vegie seedlings at markets but e are suffering through a ide ranging drought. cheers
Tony, you can always try using Peter Andrew's method to retain water on your farm. Have a look here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--4OBcRHX1Bc.html
Excellent, informative video as always and couldn’t agree more ref sustainable farming. We have a highly skilled, highly productive farming techniques here in the uk, and are at the forefront of food production and animal welfare - long may it continue. About those beasts taste Devine off that pasture!
