Harry is such an accomplished and professional presenter. I haven't missed a single episode of HF. You always manage to bring something new and interesting despite the cyclical nature of farming. I love cars but this is my favourite content on YT.
I found Harry's garage by chance, I had no real interest in classic cars, I certainly had no interest in farming, I honestly believe Harry could make a channel about anything and I'd look forward to watching the next episode, I dont think there's a more likeable fella on RU-vid or TV or anywhere! Brilliant content everytime, cheers
@@fdschuler7863 I want to know how he drives around WITHOUT a huge grin and not wave to everyone. He makes it look "everyday" for him....I suppose it is.
It's amazing how Drone footage gives a much better prospective of the farm, keep the videos coming Harry they are extremely informative I'm looking forward to future videos.
So informative and enjoyable as always, Harry. Lovely views as a bonus to this episode. Found this channel through your garage ditto - And I enjoy this at least just as much.❤
Although I am married to a farmer, I learn so much more from watching your videos, your have a clear and succinct way of talking about the farming year! I admire the fact you tell us your mistakes as well!
Thanks Harry. As a non-farmer it is so interesting to learn about the cycle of the seasons and the challenges that farmers face. I like the car videos too!
Hi Harry. As a farmer I really enjoy your videos showing us your farm and plans. i guess were all intersted in fertiliser supply and price in 23, to make our plans etc. please kep this up. Michael S
Thanks Harry it's wonderful to see all the different things happening on the farm I believe that the impact of Covid and Brexit have not yet been fully appreciated add in Ukraine and there are 3 easy solutions that can be resolved next year. If countries grew more of their own food it would reduce prices.
It's not that simple, supply and demand determines prices more than location. Some countries have better climates for growing certain crops, growing more potatoes in the UK won't lower the prices of the bananas in the supermarket.
As Harry was talking about "weedkiller" I thought I'd ask this question... 40 or so years ago when I was a child I can remember our family car returning from a drive cross-country with the grille and headlights covered in insects. Nowadays the quantity of squashed bugs is more than an order of magnitude lower. More aerodynamic cars may be a small factor but I can't help thinking that increased pesticides, smaller verges (larger fields) and more intensive farming are a major factor. Surely this is contributing to losses further up the food chain, not least in the wild bird population. I realise that farming is essential and farmers are under pressure to be more efficient but have we gone too far? I'd appreciate people's and especially Harry's thoughts.
UK farmers are using way less insecticides than they used to do. We’ve stopped using them altogether and many other farmers have too. I’ve also put in beetle banks and wildlife refuge areas in on the farm which, again, many farmers have too. The herbicides I mentioned have zero effect on how many insects are about but I agree there seems to be less bugs around than there used to be. I think there’s many factors at play here but can’t work out why insects are less numerous than they used to be
@@harrysfarmvids Thanks for the lengthy reply Harry! I appreciate that you go the extra mile and more to farm responsibly and I applaud you for it. The mystery remains....
I think this video was the first time I really understood the layout of Harry's farm. It's a bit disturbing, being so familiar with someone else's property!
The Herbicide you use is probably made in Norwich by Briar Chemicals. I drive past there almost every single day. Bayer AG used to own the site but Safex brought it just last week from an investment firm.
Politicians don't realize. Because, how would they? Politicians don't realize because we can tell they don't care, so realizing isn't worth the bother.
It's a pity food crops aren't as resilient as grass but hey, that's nature. When you're fields are sewn I guess you're in the lap of the gods. Add in the Ukraine situation and accurate grain pricing must be virtually impossible. The jury's out for me on large scale use of arable land for solar farms. I passed one on the A1 near Tuxford yesterday and it was huge. Apparently there's a proposal for a new one near Drax power station which is causing a bit of a hoo haa as it will be on prime crop growing land. Close proximity to Drax and easy access to the HV grid cables is in the new site's favour and makes sense but it just seems too big a sacrifice given the upheaval world wide food production is currently going through.
I find it difficult to believe that dry stone walls are mainly only of cosmetic value. Perhaps your walls are too thin especially at the base compared to the ones that have held stock for hundreds of years. If the wall is fat enough at the base, of conical cross-section, even cattle would find it difficult to shift, the part at body height being out of reach with hooves on the ground.
hi harry. the last 2 weeks i have been delivering whole digestate pas110 2014. the farmers are getting this stuff for free. i drive a tanker and my company spreads it via a field finder. why are you not using this? mark
Harry bit of an idea, how about going with robots and electric farming as a showcase on RU-vid. would really inspire change and partnering with a good tech company ~ good exposure for both
Serious question: I haven't been able to afford to eat meat for at least a decade, but a lot of people do, so... is sheep theft (rustling) becoming a problem? Stealing cattle from a field must take a lot of effort, but sheep are not too difficult to round up and chuck into a van. With food prices escalating, how do farmers guard against losing their livestock? I imagine rustlers are like poachers in that they operate in ruthless gangs and have absolutely no qualms against using guns, dogs, clubs, machetes, etc, to guarantee their escape. Sorry to lower the tone and spoil the atmosphere, but I'm genuinely curious.🤔
Hi Harry, don't know if you read the comments yourself but just wanted to say I really appreciate these videos. I've learnt so much by watching the videos you guys make. I knew farming wasn't easy as someone who likes growing food at home but to do it on such a massive scale just adds to the complexity. I'm learning a great deal of information on topics I otherwise would probably never have known. Cheers.
@Buddy White I’ve seen him reply to a lot. RU-vid isn’t his day job. It’s rude to assume he has the time to sit and read the thousands of comments on his channel.
@Buddy White he does reply to messages on both his channels and Instagram. He’s a very busy man. Between running the farm, organising his fleet of cars, doing the road tests, going on road trips, making and editing these videos and god knows what else because that’s only what we see. I had a quick chat to him at Goodwood a few years ago and he was busy then making a video.
Harry ,it may pay to get your soil pile put through a sifter.You could then spread the soil back on your fields, and have a pile of hard-core for your gate was and tracks.
Always interesting stuff Harry. I’m not a farmer, but both parents were. You mentioned how grass is such a good crop, lol. It’s because it’s a perennial correct? Have you looked into any other perennial crops, or is that something only being looked at in the US?
We’d love to grow perennial wheat and there’s plenty of research going on behind the scenes but we’re not there yet. Could be a game changer if it works..
I thought the whole idea was to keep these rough areas for wildlife? They may not look pretty but they have a hell of a lot more biodiversity than a monoculture field, sprayed with chemicals every year
Thanks Harry, insightful as ever. +5:19 I don't understand your concern - the chance of wheat dropping from £250 to an unviable £100 looks less than normal - how much is the price a factor of supply and demand and how much a factor of financial speculation ? +4:37 why can't you make changes until Aug/Sep 2024 ? Why a two year cycle ? Do you have a lower profit, higher reliability banker crop to pay your costs and speculate with higher profit, lower reliability crops to make higher profits ? I'd like a crop strategy deep dive or could you point us to one if it's already been done 👍
Love this time of year harry..makes me want to get out fishing and shooting ..of corse the season’s have changed are autumn seems about 4 weeks later than in the 1960s and 1970s ..I remember an article in gamekeeper and countryside magazine…titled..November when the leaves are off the trees the guns can use the woodland ride’s ..picture guns pegged along a ride trees not a leave to be seen..pheasant high and fast you can see them coming way off ..keep up the good work I watch both your channels..watching Harry’s garage just fell into Harry’s farm like meny people I should think.
That dry-stone wall looks fantastic! Q: why a single strand of barbed wire...instead of a single strand of electrified wire? I would have thought the electric wire (fence) would be more of a deterrent to any curious sheep/cattle...also, they would not get cut on the barbed wire, which, I presume, does in fact happen... Another good idea would be to put in some heavy-duty 'brushes' in a certain spot, enabling the cattle and sheep to come and get a self-administered rub. I saw it on some other farming vid somewhere, and it was a fantastic success. The cattle loved it. The Farmer loved it too...because it saved his fences! Cheers!
As a Brit living in Austria in the foothills of the Alps away from the city's and surrounded by farm land. And as someone who had no interest in farming. I find your programme so interesting and enjoyablely as I can see what goes on with farming here compared to over there on the island..... Excellent show. Thank you.
Thanks - superb video! What are your thoughts on the farmer's march taking place today in London??? I have seen Chris Packham and Feargal Sharkey on TV warning about the future of farming, seems to be a hot topic right now.
As an owner of a 57 reg 3.6 TDV8 RR for around 3 years now, I’d love to see you do another current day review on yours again. Always makes me smile when I see you still using it 😁
Drone footage was amazing and your take on the future just shows how far forward you are thinking when you plant crops and decide what to plant. Feed wheat interesting v’s milling wheat.
Great to see you have finally got your crops locked in and I love how that drystone wall looks .. the guys have done a great job. How about a video on the land rates or land taxes you farmers have to pay and if it has changed much over the past couple of decades ... plus what are your views on the future of farming in the UK ?.
I found Harry's Crossroads a year ago or more. Dunno. Ages ago. FINALLY found Harry's farm. One more thing of the list of niggling little bothers in the back of my brain. Don't actually care where you live, Harry. Just like the challenge. Like one day I was watching a show and they were all like "we want to be extra careful about things so we're being super secret, but here's our lovely parking space for lunch." Took me three minutes. Aside from the "gave up, never find"s, I think one year is a record. Congratulations.
Cerial, vegetable oil and fertiliser prices being high is not surprising as the bread basket of Europe and Africa, Ukraine, has practically been taken out of production for the foreseeable, how long is a piece of bailing twine? The rest of the continent of Europe just does not have enough productive land or had the time to shift into the production gap. Shifting buying to other parts of the World, like the Americas, also takes time as they put their own markets first, as well as trade tarrifs and regulation barriers playing a part. Halting production of Bio Diesel from grain or sunflowers may help but the numbers are low still. This country cannot guarantee the weather for Sunflower production for vegetable oil on a large scale.
All fascinating as usual. So, help a townie, if the wheat priced do drop, why would the fertilizer prices not also drop...? Are the factors which affect the prices not directly linked...?
When you say the “permanent grass” is flood and drought resistant and keeps coming back, would say it would be suitable for urban residential lawns? I’ve been using Kentucky bluegrass with fescue (here in Canada) but it’s tolerance isn’t as good as I expected
250 Tons of rock and soil could make decent iron age land folly. Let’s give the future archaeologists something to do. Bury an old Land Rover or plan a tomb.
It’s no going back as it was ever! I promote farming with regards to meat and dairy. Grains and the like are no good for the soil. Support regenerative agriculture. That’s the future!
If only you were able to broadcast on the mainstream media, the general population would have a far better understanding of farming and the environment. Too much of the MSM is either soundbites or sensationalist.
Great stuff, all interesting to me, maybe it is the way you present it, its your farm, home, business and 'garage', and you are passionate about it all. And yes a round up of all your solar, heat pump, energy conservation etc. would be of interest to me.
We often stay on holiday near to your farm and looking at the drone footage of the grassland looks like a place we walked along on a footpath. If it is where I’m assuming it is, was this once a river bed in years gone by? It just seemed an odd bit of land due to its meandering path with a flat bottom flanked by banks on either side.
As vital providers of food security and also custodians of huge parts of the country side I just wish the government would help farmers out more, as long as they adhere to good farming practices and sensible tree planting, hedgerow establishment and wildflower projects. Seems a win win situation. Food security whilst helping out with ‘green issues’
