How new ways of establishing a crop have reduced the amount of diesel we use by 75% 

Harry isn't just good at what he does, he's out standing in his field!

I thought I loved Harry’s Garage, but it turns out I just love Harry. I am not a farmer but this is very interesting - thanks Mr Metcalfe! 😁

Harry is another one of those guys that you wish, was one of your teachers in school. I have learnt more about percentages and fractions than I ever did before. I know I did it in school but it went in one ear and out the other. Listening about the way farming is changing, especially arable crops and how the basics for our food is manufactured is fantastic. Must of us take for granted that there is a loaf of bread on the table or oil to cook with, I think if we understood the process from start to finish, including how the land is treated with respect as Harry is showing us, we would have a greater appreciation and probably as a result a lot less food waste.

As a former farmers son I find contemporary methods and associated world problems extremely interesting as Harry explains minimal cultivation methods to try and reduce cost in order to create a margin Very well explained and very interesting both on the farm and in Harry's Garage !!!

A great advert for the use of Glyphosate. It helps save the planet by reducing diesel use amongst many other things. Well done Harry.

The IPU ban was unfounded, I worked on that MAFF project. A bunch of idiots cut corners and confused a nylon pipe additive with IPU. The nylon pipe was used to sample rivers, and the plastizer additive leached from the pipe to the sample. All true.

Being a retired farmer I worry for the future when the Single Payments end our forward looking Government has decided not to pay farmers anything for growing food but just to keep the countryside looking nice so we can totally rely on on imports and talk of banning Glyphosate, think they are heading towards food shortages.

for a field that size, I would recommend a spade rather than a trowel.

Nice vid; can remember myself, my dad and bother all in david brown 995s working the ploughing ,your pic took me back 35 plus yes ,all most had a tears in my eyes ,,I think then deisel was 15 pence a GALLON good old days.

Great article in The Telegraph today, I am sure it will attract more viewers and therefore more people will understand the difficulties of farming to make food for the country within the confines of a political agenda and bizarre weather. Thanks for all your videos.

You could use digestate by using a dribble bar in the spring? Agrivert are just up the road!!

Thank you for explaining why fields are no longer deep ploughed after the harvest, I'd been wondering about that for years!

that defender is looking great on your farm Harry

Changed a lot since I was a boy in the yorkshire countryside. I learned to plow in my early teens lol I noticed when i moved to Canada they dont plow here either and when you think about it, its the best most economic and environmentally friendly way to go. What also is different here to there is harvesting with snow falling lol couldn't believe it when I first saw it here. Bringing back lots of memories for me Harry ! 👍

Nice to see Harry using "Väderstad Verken's" farming tools. Really nice and effective products made in Sweden.

Makes me appreciate all the more how farming keeps us alive. Never realized the technology involved. I drive a fair bit and most of that driving is done in the countryside and I see farmers doing their job never realizing just how complicated it is. Keep up the good work!

Harry is great at explaining farming to us, the non farmers.

Just returned from a week in Tuscany 14th October. Took my drone with me and filmed the Tuscan countryside. Most of the farmers fields have been ploughed and the clods are 12 to 15 inches in length. The land looks so dry it’s hard to believe the farmer will get more than a winter crop to harvest. Also of note is how steep the land is that has been ploughed. How on earth can these poor farmers compete? Finally, we travelled many hundreds of miles during this holiday (flew in to Rome) and with the exception of a pet donkey we didn’t see a single animal grazing the land. Arrived back at Manchester airport yesterday and travelled back home to Cumbria. Livestock everywhere. So green and we realised how lucky we are to live in this wonderful country. Harry, please keep producing these wonderfully informative videos. I’m not a farmer but love what you do.

I always look forward to your videos, you keep us well informed of exactly what your doing and why please keep them coming.

Always fascinating to learn behind the scenes.

Fascinating as always Harry

Well done again Harry. Keep the public educated Nitrogen prices may drive some to more spring cropping and growing beans Pig slurry can be applied much more accurately than solid manures. It provides about 2/3 of my N requirements

Excellent throughout. The information is greatly appreciated💪

Really informative thanks as always Harry.

Still nice to see a well ploughed field, getting rare and completely understand why minimal cults is normal now. I have a "No Dig" policy with my allotment and it does work.

Thanks Harry for yet another excellent and informative farming video.

Harry has such a knack for explaining things. Very informative!

Excellent work Harry 👍

As always, Harry is informative and interesting as ever!

Brilliant very educational felt like back in school again. Throughly enjoyed

This is absolutely fascinating Harry, such interesting content

This is so interesting. Thanks Harry for helping me learn what it takes to grow our food, and the ways you look to optimize results. Love BOTH your channels. 👍

Looking forward to this Harry. I have my own farming RU-vid channel and the info u provide and topics you cover are always really well explained and interesting. Even to a sheep farmer like me! 👍

I enjoyed getting these insights as a someone who doesn't know much about farming!

Excellent report Harry.

Great to see Harry with his whistler tee shirt,even better to see him on the big jumps🤟

Nice coverage in the Telegraph today Harry, congratulations.

Cheers for insight, another great vid.

Great job of explaining how it all works...very enjoyable

Insightful as ever. Thank you.

I would love to see a proper discussion on farming and food supply, is it really cheaper to buy food from around the world, fly or ship it to the UK, per item cheap, Co2 cost high, do you want Co2 down or cheaper food, why not subsidise farmers like the EU did, except not leaving land set aside or fallow, but to grown cereals or crops, the EU have been paying for non production, because we had gluts of food, Butter Mountains, Wine, everyone wanted to jump onto the best subsidised method. We used to have dairies, sometimes 2 or 3 around a small village, a local milk person, a slaughterhouse, meat processor, new rules meant many just quit, but was that good when moving goods back and forth to larger plants where produce was processed and back again after, every time adding to the Co2 cost and price per unit, all the while the farmers margins got small as middlemen raised prices, we paid the higher price. I recently went back where I grew up, 4 dairies gone, 4 farms gone, 2 replaced by a much larger farming set up, with bigger machines, hedgerows grubbed out to make fields bigger, 2 farms are now housing estates, the orchard where we went scrumping gone and houses, the cattle yard and barns gone and second homes built no one in the village could afford the prices they went for. Things change but people still need food, none of the milk is produced local anymore, only 2 farms are still producing anything, not a single field with cattle, no seems to talk about producing food local and keeping the Co2 footprint down, jobs for locals so they dont need to travel into town, China is not the answer, buying food and shipping it around the world using tonnes of fuel and still selling it cheap than local produce is not the answer, we need to talk, do you want cheap food or less Co2.

really enjoyed this episode

Great video harry, really good detail.

Another great video, always find them really interesting. Cheers, Harry

Many years ago I had a seasonal job as green keeper on a large premiere golf course and still have fond memories of driving around in a Ford New Holland listening to radio 4 :)

Really enjoyed another informative episode

Top tip. Never let the tyres down in the field by removing the valve. Sod’s law dictates that it will slip from your grasp and disappear, leaving you with a flat tyre😞😫

Thank you for these videos. I have learned so much.

An excellent and educational video on modern farming technology.

Very interesting Harry, make us non farmer think a lot more about your 24/7 activities and the vever changing cost. Kepp up the great work. Cheers Bob

Thank you, very informative. Interesting to see how a more conservative less invasive approach has taken off (e.g no ploughing), also interesting in how you can let the tractor do a lot more of the driving - have a friend at a firm I can’t name setting those up - sometimes it involves setting up another additional radio beacons on the farm to tighten up the accuracy.

Love the technology. As an engineer it’s great to see how innovation from smart engineers is helping to feed the world in a more sustainable way.

Can’t believe he’s digging the fields with just a trowel! All that tech and he’s harvesting each seed by hand.. now that’s dedication!!😂😂😂 Such an interesting series, i had no idea about farming practices but this is so informative and interesting! Well done H

As good as Harry's garage is, Harry's farm is the best! I am always genuinely pleased when I see a new video come out. Thanks for the superb content Mr M.

Great info Harry, thanks

Very informative Harry Layman's terms are best

Really interesting Harry. We too have gone from Plough - Combi to min-till and are now looking at direct drilling. We've reduced our fuel and labour by similar percentages to those quoted above.

Love your channel! It’s great to see a Defender in its natural habitat, coming from a fellow D90 owner, 22 MY.

Great tip regarding the seat belt blank I have been frustrated with that beeping while driving round the farm for years. Arrived today instant peace and quiet all for £2.50 delivered thanks Harry Great advice and great videos

A lot of farmers will have to go that way to survive good on you Harry

Brilliant video

I broke out the plough for the first time in 5 years to Bury the god awful mess that was left after the OSR. I quite enjoyed myself and it looked lovely after, I just didn't look at the l/ha. I noticed that when you were rolling the field on your screen was already painted green, possibly from when it was straw raked. If you want to get rid of this on one of the run screens either add and press or if it's already there press a tab called 'operational instance' and selec select 'new'. That clears the previous work recorded.

It would be good to see how much the fuel costs today for the 9ltrs per hectare against the days of ploughing and cultivating,maybe the difference in the cost of fuel would make it look better +the labour cost was less..i worked on a farm years ago and it was not unusual to have 6 Ford 5000 tractors working in the same field but no farm would stand that cost today….great video as always Thanks

Another excellent video. Soo, informative, full of agronomical and agro-technical detail and sure farmers joy and inspiration. Thank you Harry for doing all this!

Tractor drivers today. They don’t know what it was like in the 50s and 60s. No cab and when eventually cabs were fitted, we had noise in our ears and it was years before the Q cabs came along. Of course, we still had to steer the tractor, accurately, across the ground. Eventually the manufacturers lifted the cab above the tractor chassis, which got rid of the noise. But they could still very hot in the summer, so along came air conditioning. Something else to go wrong!. And now tractors and combines steer themselves, but they probably cost a whole lot more. Great informative video Harry. Thanks.

Farming is getting very technical nowadays great video

Would love to see a video of all the big tools and a run down of what theyre used for and when... drillers, sprayers etc the lot in one go! Love the vids

Thanks for another great video, such an informative explanation for farming practices. I say again that the government needs to listen to you before they make policy decisions.

11:39 white van man spec is to just put the belt on and sit on it, it's what I did when I was white vanning my way through university.

Nice Whistler t-shirt Harry!

4:20 I used to play bass in the Unhappy Thistles.

Fascinating !

Another very enjoyable video Harry. Didn’t know you were an f1 fan..... something other then farming we have in common 😊👍

Having watched all your videos I feel I am entitled to an Agri Science Degree! When do we graduate 🎓

I’m not certain but fairly sure the dealership can disable the belt warning, maybe anyone with a bidirectional scan tool as well. The reason disabling is a better option is that if your vehicle thinks the belt is buckled the car’s computer arms the airbags for that seated position. If you have an airbag deploy in your face without a seatbelt you are likely to break your neck.

Great video, thanks

Nice to see your soil structure improved. Too bad it's probably unfeasible to stop with fungicides, because fungi could improve it further.

Interesting as always.

From a person that hates anything to do with the bbc,best show on youtube.

Could be interesting to see a series of "Harry's Farm Abroad" - where you visit farms in other countries and hear about different ways of farming - just an idea :)

Harry, I left the UK in 2003 but I still try to stay up to date with what's happening there. Recently, I've been hearing a lot about heat pumps. It would be more Harry's Farmhouse than Harry's Farm, but a video about your heat pump experience would be interesting.

Lovely video, nicely explained. 👍

So informative and interesting thank you so much harry grazie Mille ciao ciao

What’s the saying ‘up corn ,down horn.’Very true this year !

We used to just stuff the seat belt clip in as usual THEN get behind the wheel! NOT recommended for Everyday Road Use.....or3-Point Harness! Harrys Farm is so good I was moved to put an OO Scale Model Farm together for the "Toy Railway". First thing folk mention when they see it. They love it.(And so do I. Well done Harry.Thanks.A lot!)

Veyr interesting and informative, thanks.

Yippee!!Another Harry's farm video,I've been gagging to know how the farm is doing .......................................

love the Whistler BC shirt Harry. Hope you checked out the Audain Museum while you visited. Have a good weekend

Awesome video as always Harry. Lots of info to take on board in one video, but absolutely fascinating stuff. Loving all the new tech, and the cost, mind boggling, I suppose it means next years bread and a pint of ale will go though the roof. Just a quick one, what was the price of fuel when you used to plough all those years ago. Thanks Harry for sharing.

Good as always

Brilliant, as usual. Impressive fuel economy...

Lieber Harry, wie immer sehr gute Informationen im Ackerbau in UK und auch für Nichtfarmer verständlich. Sie haben eine sehr ansprechende und freundliche Art Fachwissen verständlich zu erklären, besonders die Finanzen. Ich bin sehr gerne auf ihrem Kanal. Fredo Eilts aus Norddeutschland.

Well done, Harry...I farmed 5 acres in the Benwick area of Hunts in the early/mid 1970's..The plow was king..the disk was queen..It cost a lot to get anything done on a 5 acre tater patch..Today, tech has helped out considerbally..then we have The Elete telling us how to farm and what to use and how much to pay for our nitrogen..Does not anyone really enjoy some food from time to time..and be able to pay for it all the same..I have no idea what is the program these days, but me thinks it is not all about feeding the people well..

Love it when Harry gets his trowel out!

Thanks Harry. No history of farming here in Sweeney Towers. Found your channel after following Harry’s Garage. Really interesting!!! If you want an idea for the off season, what about explaining how a combine harvester works? Your easy style would really make is perfect for non-techs. I enjoy both of your channels. Thanks!

Great video Harry Would welcome an overview on type of crop rotation you use on the farm; would you graze kale or other cover crop in a fallow year to get more organic matter into the Cotswold brash? Must be close to getting the overview on this years harvest financials. Please keep these great videos up so informative for us non-farmers but lots of us are interested in where our food comes from & what a struggle it is for farmers financially.

Put your passenger belt.into the drivers receptacle job done..thanks for sharing interesting 👍

Great vid Harry. What's the update on the miscanthus project?

Love the vids

Just watched Olly Harrison, (ollyblogs), showing us the guidance system on his Bateman sprayer - just incredible tech ! He beat you to it ! Of course, another way to silence the belt warning is to plug it in behind you, and that's free !