Thank you Andrew for this years vlogs, I have said this before, but I’m from farming stock but 2nd generation builder, your channel is still the best to watch as you explain what you are doing on the farm, so that us who aren’t farmers can understand better the best. Keep up the great work, and all the best with the battle ahead , we are all behind you 🍻👍🏼
Andrew. Glad you’re feeling a lot better. Thank you and everyone who’s standing up for British farming Hope the new year brings a lot more to help out our nation in securing our food security. For the nation. All the best. To you and the family.
Happy New Year Andrew & all at the farm, will agree with Sam we need a leader who has the country at heart not someone who is going to drive it into the ground with greed .
Two thirds of a glass of hot milk, one tea spoon of Douwe Egerts, four glugs of Bailey's two glugs of Jack D..... job's a good un!! happy new year, and thanks for all you do for farming, if ever i'm passing in my truck I'll call in and say hello.
Thoroughly enjoyed 12 months of waffles, and the last 3 months have helped me so much. You brought the countryside to me when I was unable to get out and about. Hoping to get back walking the fields and countryside soon. Would love to get over and see your farm in the near future too. All the best for 2025 and let's hope the government pulls their heads from their backsides and gets round the table to talk.
Morning Andrew, a great video to end the year. Good to see your machinery and workshop looking clean and tidy. Looking forward to seeing some land work in the new year. Well done to those who took part in the tractor run, seems like the sale of Baby shark air horns has gone up. I sat here waiting for my coffee to brew and looked at the 2 bottles of Baileys on the side. I thought it is too early for a Baileys coffee, maybe later. Anyway, thanks Andrew for the videos over the past year. I wish you a happy new year and looking forward to your videos in 2025.🥳🥂
What a great idea adding BAILEYS to a cup of coffee ill try that tonight i love Baileys Andrew your machines and Tractors look brilliant every credit to Tom & Rueben who have made them look like new i like seeing machines well cared for I think the insrance policy you was on about is a good idea to counteract this new inheritance tax the the Government have dreamed up Didnt Harmston YFC do well putting on the tractor run every credit to them do you not fancy taking part in it have a great New Year Andrew youll no doubt be celebrating it with Rhonda thanks for all the super videos youve done this year ive really enjoyed them all all the best Andrew
Thanks Eddie, if you have sugar in coffee leave that out, baileys adds that as well! I’m about naughty, I sometimes have an inch of baileys!! I have considered doing the tractor run but I’m about old to be a Young Farmer!
Best line of this VLOG, "ok, let's just sort my hair out..." Thank you Andrew. I hope to chat soon so I can share my knowledge around rural crime reduction.
A Happy New Year 🥳 to you and your family Andrew 🎉, wishing you all the Very Best for 2025, many thanks for the informative and honest videos as always 👍🏻
I found your channel recently and have been an avid viewer ever since! I really enjoy the updates and well done for highlighting the business challenges faced by British farmers. Also, I do like to see clean kit - Tom and Reuben have done a great job! 😊
Hope you and your family have had a good Christmas Andrew.. It’s nice to see how you look after you kit! Thank you for all of your uploads over the last 12months they have been much enjoyed! I wish you and your loved ones a very happy and healthy new year take care👍❤️👍👍Regards😉👍
Happy New Year and best wishes for 2025,i really enjoy the content thanks for taking the time to make such interesting videos throughout the year on top of an already busy schedule of trying to run a business best wishes 🙂
A Happy and Prosperous New Year to you and the team on the farm. I know what you mean about setting up Offsets on the Guidance System as I have similar problems with my New Holland Guidance. It might be worth measuring the Spacings on the Drill as we once planted some Grass Seed with a Power Harrow Drill combination which left similar results which when we measured it the Drill was Offset on the power harrow.
Nice and tidy yard, good job to your chaps for cleaning everything off, well done to the young farmers raising so much money . Good to have the financial advisor on explanation of what is going on, happy new year to you and everyone who watches your channel.
We use out match ploughing poles to check our GPS and autosteer. Some people think we're daft doing it! But then somebody puts the discs on, having had too much Baileys, and it's all irregular again!
Morning Andrew Another great video. It's great the amount of time you must spend doing these videos. I did notice when you have been showing your machinery today and previous videos the sprayer seems to be missing. Happy New Year and look forward to more helpful information.
The current Mrs Davis and I have a festive tradition where she notes that the supermarket has Baileys on offer, usually about mid October. We purchase ‘the Christmas Baileys’ then over the the next few weeks it mysteriously evaporates in the bottle and causes us to replace ‘the Christmas Baileys’ with a MkII bottle mid November and then the MkIII bottle just before Christmas… her and my sister-in-law are just sophisticated and well-calibrated machines for creating empty Baileys bottles. I’m a tea drinker, never coffee, but quite like making cheesecake, truffles and ice cream with the stuff…
Another great update thank you Wardy. I have thoroughly enjoyed this years content and am looking forward to next year. Happy New Year to you, your family and staff.
Hi Andrew really enjoyed all of your videos over the year . Its funny you mentioned Baileys l was visiting my Auntie on Christmas eve who his 100 years old and she as a Baileys each night before she goes to bed so l think l might try it with a coffee like you said . l wish you Rhonda and family a Happy New Year .
Thank you for another year of videos. We enjoy catching up with goings on in Leadenham and further afield. I look forward to meeting you one day Andrew. Meanwhile if staff have a real or perceived pay cut ( no pay rise) they will spend less and thus VAT will be affected. Another negative impact of increasing NI contributions
We ploughed and power harrow drilled two fields of winter barley around the 16 November in what turned out to be in good conditions ploughing even had 2 days prior to drilling,barley showing green rows by second week of December in North Devon. Videos are always interesting and wonder what Wardy's waffle will show us next year! PS now we know why Andrew looks chirpy in some of these videos after drinking those Baileys laced coffees!😅
I’m a miserable bugger as I must be alone thinking that £600/month seems high. Unnecessary cost that needs passing on somehow and tbh doesn’t cover the full extent of the problem as it’s only for 20 years. Thanks for the video updates, and keep well for 2025.
Ok so we know to bring some Baileys if we are passing You should come to Ireland and do a blog on the history of this drink Thanks for all the education blogs over the year
Cracking update again Andrew. Isn’t it interesting when your finance bloke can see the government has there figures wrong but if everyone else can see it why can’t the government see it 🤷♂️ baffles me. I see your tractors in the shed are all reasonably old but to be fair there all in good nic so you can see they’ve been looked after. 😊
Hi Andrew. I was very interested in the life insurance policy ,I understand in France and America that some policies have not paid out as people took an experimental VAX. So it would be interesting to know if your insurance policy you were looking at would pay out ? Love your TH-cam videos keep up the good work . Kind regards Phil.
Andrew, good to see you got over the "Bug" that downed you at the Palladium. I agree about Baileys, it does make a really nice coffee, a bit too sweet to drink on it's own for me, but tasted change as we age! Interesting news from Sam, just goes to prove : this lot don't understand the first thing about what they are doing. Keep going with the campaign, and they will eventually HAVE to listen to common sense? or they will go bust! One way or another We will get them out! On to my bit: Machinery. Thanks for showing the prime movers, look forward to the other tons of equipment you have next visit. As always love what you show us, good and not so good, but things like this, are for the most part, simple mistakes that can be sorted next time! Final thoughts: Thanks for everything you have done for Farmers in the last few months and look forward to more of the same throughout the coming year. Thanks to for all your coverage of on farm and off farm background info in general. Best wishes as always, for the New Year to all involved in the farm and other activities. Thanks again, love to all and see you next year.
Morning Andrew You remind me of my late father, he loved Baileys, drank it, cooked with it, his Baileys cheesecake was well received lol My better half is also a Baileys coffee fan, I prefer a Jamesons in my coffee Jezzas blunderbuss comment stands on the budget for sure They're selling us out, not bit by bit but lock stock n barrel Some farms and industries won't be there in 5 years, some of the potential damage will be irreparable 5 years of decimation could take 20 years to reverse What a great mixed, interesting and educational update again, thank you Andrew. A non farmer, but you certainly keep it all on a level I can understand, and enjoy The team have done a cracking job cleaning the kit, after all the hard work of sowing, hope the weather doesn't undo too much of that hardwork All the very best to you, Rhonda, the team and all the families for the coming New Year Looking forward to new adventures, problem solving and entertaining updates next year Take care all Back UK Farmer's 🇬🇧 Geoff
Just a thought from an outsider is it worth retaining the Fast track and disposing the Massey. The FT has hours on its side is ideal for road work when hedging which often destroys tractor transmissions with kerbing etc. The FT looks heavier so would potentially have a longer reach when fitting with a new hedger. Now you will probably have thought of all this and say in my ignorance I am talking codswallop which I will happily accept but Rightly or wrongly I thought I would risk the remark! Thank you for the insights and the enjoyment of the past year and wishing you a successful New Year.
We don’t have a Massey, you mean the 2 cases? Trouble is the Fastrac is worth the most and I need the cash from that to put towards the replacement, can’t afford to do it any other way.
Great update andrew the tractors look like new , who does the hedge cutting now ? The price of tractors now you might as well keep the puma and the jcb.
Great video as usual. I guess the wheat with the gaps/overlaps was drilled in November not December? The financial advisors must be rubbing their hands together now at the thought of all the commission they’ll earn selling life insurance policies to farmers who less than two months ago never thought they’d need one. Anyway Happy New Year to you all at Glebe Farm.
Morning Andrew Happy New Year to you all🎉 very tidy yard and building's and machinery nicely put away undercover. What make of tractor do think you'll go for ? Excellent update interesting as always thanks 👌👍
Hope you had a great Christmas the late wheat behind beet looks well, you were right about how to establish it after I thought a combination drill would have been better, wheat seed m2 did you drill ? What variety?
I know from past years, anything which is in rows by Christmas tends to give us a decent yield on our soils and drought doesn’t have much effect. So I’d hope these give us 8.5-9 ton/ha minimum. Obviously I need to sell it right to complete the circle!
I rarely get it right! It’s the first time for years I’ve not got any sold forward, usually I’ll sell some up to 2 years in front. My best sales this year were in Oct 2022, for November just gone, £250, why did I only do 2 loads?! 🤷♂️ the rest have gone out around 185-190. I’ll talk a bit about marketing in my next vid.
Interesting what Sam had to say about the government and then life cover. Obviously i have not cross checked that number anywhere else but imo on the face of it 600 / month for 1 million cover looks a good deal. However should the policy run for the full 20 yrs term then the premium would total £144k . Its a risk and a gamble to know which way to go. As always your kit is kept up really well. I am a fan of running some older kit that's well serviced maintained especially if only clocking 5/600 hrs a year.
How do Andrew I don’t normally comment but but about the insurance you where talking about be careful if you take insurance out after the time span you would have take a new one and age will be older and health may no be so good and it will cost a lot more😮
I don't know about bottles of Bailey's, looks as though you could do with a bottle of T-cut colour restorer for the Case paint work Andrew. Good luck on the target of 50k subscribers, think you will have to increase to several video's per week with there being so many other TH-cam farmers now. I know you could present so much more content that we would be interested to watch with your lifetime of local contacts. From flooding and drainage, local food chain, engineering, agricultural college, agricultural history and museums, how agriculture has changed over the last 100 years in Lincolnshire, agricultural contractors and why some farms use them and the reasons as in why you don't say have an extra employee and a JD6215 and an excavator for ditching etc. What is your 1, 3, 5, 10 year plan for the farm? So much available content for a 3 or 4 times per week Waffle.
I don’t have time to do more than 2 vids a week apart from during harvest and I think people might get bored! We have some colour restorer and doing the paintwork of the tractors is one of the first jobs.
DON`T you find coffee before bed keeps you awake i would have whiskey in the Baileys ,wife` likes the chocolate one perhaps in coco ,need to get this terrible Government out before they decide to tax the air we breath have a good one happy new year to you and the Gang
I saw that, over 1,000 come in since Christmas Day. If they are welcomed with open arms and no checks, how come we have to show a passport when ever we come back from holiday? 😡
Life insurance seems to be not to bad an option if the decision is not reversed and you can always stop it if a new government reverses the tax ! Only problem with life assurance is you have to sleep with one eye open 😂
Due to recent solar flares ,farmers tractor programs, navigation ,have been disrupted, particularly Deere , to be fair,operator may it be at fault.This problem is documented, but kept quiet.
I know with us it’s Tom putting the offset on the wrong side. Trimble have been bad over the years, that’s why we’re concentrating on Greenstar, it seems much more stable.
Yes the Tories did huge damage to agriculture mainly due to brexit but that was unfortunately the vote of a misinformed population, but labour are driving the death nail into agriculture and actually punishing the better farmers who work hard to grow the food you work hard to buy, in your comments you mention Andrew having a private pension don't forget many workers have pensions with their jobs, you don't get that if your self employed so if you want a pension you need a private one, we don't know Andrews financial position but I guess he owns some of the land he farms, he rents a larger area of land and contract farms land that belongs to others, most farmers who are pushing on will be borrowing substantial amounts of money on the land they own, would you really think it wise to put yourself in that position without the backup of a pension should things go wrong,
Dead right Richard and you’re spot on with the land breakdown. Our friend James is one of those that thinks food magically appears on supermarket shelves and the countryside magically appears cared for and wildlife magically get fed!
That's history now and people`s minds forget very quickly, but I agree with your sentiments. The Tory damage goes back a lot further into the past, we are living the legacy of Thatcher's regime now .
We do pay our bit in taxes on profit but it’s insane to expect anyone, not just farmers, to pay tax on the asset which generates the first tax. No farms make big profits, that’s what putting cheap food on everyone’s plate has done to the industry. Hence why we used to have subsidies, so farms could have something to reinvest or expand. So many other businesses benefit from agriculture so if the industry is profitable, it’s spent and helps keep other businesses profitable. If all farmers sold up, where would your food come from? If you say abroad, look at the recent report, 48 chemicals, banned here, found in imported food we all eat. Also, it won’t be other famers buying it, land prices are so high, you can’t buy land from farming income. Only recently BA have bought 1,000 acres in Lincs to offset their carbon, they’re planting it with trees.
@ It affects the bottom farmers because they can’t afford to pay, but it also affects the top the ones that produce the vast majority of food and take the most risks, my tax this year is 400k and have invested 3 million the last 2 years well it’s now zero sod them seriously considering emigrating
Then you and other farmers say they have no money and can not make any. But you have all your private pensions and so on to live on. So you are not that hard up.
Bloody hell James, three comments on a single video? Is this issue living rent free in your head? Of course he has private pensions - as I do as a plumber. Now go make yourself a nice breakfast and calm down. No more typing on the internet today for you please 😂
Pension's and insurance's are not for everyone, I've had them, done very well out of them, and withdrawn from the market nowadays. Businesses, and business owners need them at times, to use for Tax purposes, that's part of business!
I’ve paid monthly for over 20 years with my own money so I have something to live on when the farm stops paying me. I’ve not given myself a pay rise in that time to help the farm. I’m not after the violin, just telling you as it is.
Thank you Andrew for this years vlogs, I have said this before, but I’m from farming stock but 2nd generation builder, your channel is still the best to watch as you explain what you are doing on the farm, so that us who aren’t farmers can understand better the best. Keep up the great work, and all the best with the battle ahead , we are all behind you 🍻👍🏼
Thanks Steve, appreciate your support and comments.
Sam correct in saying we need a leader no matter what party they are from who as the country at heart FIRSTLY
Andrew. Glad you’re feeling a lot better.
Thank you and everyone who’s standing up for British farming
Hope the new year brings a lot more to help out our nation in securing our food security. For the nation.
All the best. To you and the family.
Thanks Ralph. 😊👍
Happy New Year Wardie & all. Never forget, this is our Country, not any given Government.
Have a blessed new year, Wardy. I enjoy your videos from South Dakota, USA. Hope you can make some progress with your government going forward.
Thank you.
Happy New Year Andrew & all at the farm, will agree with Sam we need a leader who has the country at heart not someone who is going to drive it into the ground with greed .
No problem I’m not in farming but construction but really look forward to yours and Oli’s vlogs and please don’t let up on this Labour government
Two thirds of a glass of hot milk, one tea spoon of Douwe Egerts, four glugs of Bailey's two glugs of Jack D..... job's a good un!! happy new year, and thanks for all you do for farming, if ever i'm passing in my truck I'll call in and say hello.
That sounds like knock out juice!! Feel free.
Thoroughly enjoyed 12 months of waffles, and the last 3 months have helped me so much. You brought the countryside to me when I was unable to get out and about. Hoping to get back walking the fields and countryside soon.
Would love to get over and see your farm in the near future too.
All the best for 2025 and let's hope the government pulls their heads from their backsides and gets round the table to talk.
Pleased to hear Gary, take care.
Great video Andrew your tractors are a credit to you the great condition they are in for their age
Thankyou Andrew for blogs and keeping us well informed . Hope you found the Under the Wire calendar .
Calender?
Morning Andrew, a great video to end the year. Good to see your machinery and workshop looking clean and tidy. Looking forward to seeing some land work in the new year. Well done to those who took part in the tractor run, seems like the sale of Baby shark air horns has gone up. I sat here waiting for my coffee to brew and looked at the 2 bottles of Baileys on the side. I thought it is too early for a Baileys coffee, maybe later. Anyway, thanks Andrew for the videos over the past year. I wish you a happy new year and looking forward to your videos in 2025.🥳🥂
Thanks Adrian, I hope o don’t hear that bloody tune until next year, it’s spinning round in my head! 🤯
Happy new to you all now on a mission in village for Baileys it like having sherry in soup take care
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Nice to see the baby John Deere behind the big Fendt! Enjoy watching the videos and look forward to more in the new year.
Cheers Rob
What a great idea adding BAILEYS to a cup of coffee ill try that tonight i love Baileys Andrew your machines and Tractors look brilliant every credit to Tom & Rueben who have made them look like new i like seeing machines well cared for I think the insrance policy you was on about is a good idea to counteract this new inheritance tax the the Government have dreamed up Didnt Harmston YFC do well putting on the tractor run every credit to them do you not fancy taking part in it have a great New Year Andrew youll no doubt be celebrating it with Rhonda thanks for all the super videos youve done this year ive really enjoyed them all all the best Andrew
Thanks Eddie, if you have sugar in coffee leave that out, baileys adds that as well! I’m about naughty, I sometimes have an inch of baileys!!
I have considered doing the tractor run but I’m about old to be a Young Farmer!
Andrew you’ll never be old 🎈
Thank you for your videos throughout 2024 and happy new year for 2025
Thanks toy, ditto.
Best line of this VLOG, "ok, let's just sort my hair out..." Thank you Andrew. I hope to chat soon so I can share my knowledge around rural crime reduction.
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What a great turnout from Harmston YFC, a lot of hard work preparing their machines 👏
Another interesting update. Need sam running the country. Agree with you i love a baileys coffee. Had two bottles for Christmas.
A Happy New Year 🥳 to you and your family Andrew 🎉, wishing you all the Very Best for 2025, many thanks for the informative and honest videos as always 👍🏻
Thanks , happy new year Alistair. 🎇
I found your channel recently and have been an avid viewer ever since! I really enjoy the updates and well done for highlighting the business challenges faced by British farmers. Also, I do like to see clean kit - Tom and Reuben have done a great job! 😊
Welcome, thanks for watching. Yes, they’ve done a great job to wash over 30 bits of kit in Dec.
Thanks for the tip on Baileys coffee, I will try that tonight.
Happy new year & thanks for all the information & videos
Same to you Nigel.
Hope you and your family have had a good Christmas Andrew.. It’s nice to see how you look after you kit! Thank you for all of your uploads over the last 12months they have been much enjoyed! I wish you and your loved ones a very happy and healthy new year take care👍❤️👍👍Regards😉👍
Thanks Shirley, same to you.
Happy New Year and best wishes for 2025,i really enjoy the content thanks for taking the time to make such interesting videos throughout the year on top of an already busy schedule of trying to run a business best wishes 🙂
Thanks Ollie, same to you and yours.
A Happy and Prosperous New Year to you and the team on the farm.
I know what you mean about setting up Offsets on the Guidance System as I have similar problems with my New Holland Guidance. It might be worth measuring the Spacings on the Drill as we once planted some Grass Seed with a Power Harrow Drill combination which left similar results which when we measured it the Drill was Offset on the power harrow.
Thankyou, same to you Peter.
Nice and tidy yard, good job to your chaps for cleaning everything off, well done to the young farmers raising so much money . Good to have the financial advisor on explanation of what is going on, happy new year to you and everyone who watches your channel.
Thanks John, happy new year.
We use out match ploughing poles to check our GPS and autosteer. Some people think we're daft doing it! But then somebody puts the discs on, having had too much Baileys, and it's all irregular again!
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Morning Andrew
Another great video. It's great the amount of time you must spend doing these videos.
I did notice when you have been showing your machinery today and previous videos the sprayer seems to be missing.
Happy New Year and look forward to more helpful information.
The sprayer will be in Wed video or may be next Sunday
Keep up the fight Andrew and all farmers…
great update i wish you rhonda and family all the best for 2025
The current Mrs Davis and I have a festive tradition where she notes that the supermarket has Baileys on offer, usually about mid October. We purchase ‘the Christmas Baileys’ then over the the next few weeks it mysteriously evaporates in the bottle and causes us to replace ‘the Christmas Baileys’ with a MkII bottle mid November and then the MkIII bottle just before Christmas… her and my sister-in-law are just sophisticated and well-calibrated machines for creating empty Baileys bottles. I’m a tea drinker, never coffee, but quite like making cheesecake, truffles and ice cream with the stuff…
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I buy about 12-15 bottles to last into next autumn! Or at least try to last that long!
Much as I like my coffee I would never spoil my Baileys with it !!
Try baileys 2 measures with 1 of tia Maria and 1 of Drambuie.
Is it called a B52 ?
I’ve had that a couple of times but baby Guinness I have more regularly,
Happy new year to you all , great videos all year , excellent insight to your business, just hope you can sort the bloody London lot out at number 10
We are going to try our best and prepared to go all the way if necessary but must try everything else first.
Another great update thank you Wardy. I have thoroughly enjoyed this years content and am looking forward to next year. Happy New Year to you, your family and staff.
Thanks Andy, ditto.
Happy new year wardy great videos over the year well done.
Sane to you. 👍
Hi Andrew really enjoyed all of your videos over the year . Its funny you mentioned Baileys l was visiting my Auntie on Christmas eve who his 100 years old and she as a Baileys each night before she goes to bed so l think l might try it with a coffee like you said . l wish you Rhonda and family a Happy New Year .
Hello Michael, your auntie has good taste! I’ve been on it for a while so hope it improves my life span!
Happy new year to you and your family and staff
Thank you, and back.
Thank you for another year of videos. We enjoy catching up with goings on in Leadenham and further afield. I look forward to meeting you one day Andrew. Meanwhile if staff have a real or perceived pay cut ( no pay rise) they will spend less and thus VAT will be affected. Another negative impact of increasing NI contributions
Thanks Matthew for your comments and questions over the last year
Going to have to try a 2nd Baileys & Coffee tonight to double check the first was ok….😂 Thanks for all the waffles. Much appreciated.
🤣🤣🤣 Hope you agree with me!
@ certainly hits the spot!
Told you!
Great update the fog was bad, happy new year.
We ploughed and power harrow drilled two fields of winter barley around the 16 November in what turned out to be in good conditions ploughing even had 2 days prior to drilling,barley showing green rows by second week of December in North Devon. Videos are always interesting and wonder what Wardy's waffle will show us next year!
PS now we know why Andrew looks chirpy in some of these videos after drinking those Baileys laced coffees!😅
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Thank you very much for your videos. Happy New year 🎉.
Thanks Edward, same to you too.
I’m a miserable bugger as I must be alone thinking that £600/month seems high. Unnecessary cost that needs passing on somehow and tbh doesn’t cover the full extent of the problem as it’s only for 20 years.
Thanks for the video updates, and keep well for 2025.
Happy New year Andrew 🎉 thankyou for all your updates 👍👍
Same to you Sarah.
Ok so we know to bring some Baileys if we are passing
You should come to Ireland and do a blog on the history of this drink
Thanks for all the education blogs over the year
Cracking update again Andrew. Isn’t it interesting when your finance bloke can see the government has there figures wrong but if everyone else can see it why can’t the government see it 🤷♂️ baffles me. I see your tractors in the shed are all reasonably old but to be fair there all in good nic so you can see they’ve been looked after. 😊
Thanks Andrew have a great new year
Thanks, and you.
Happy new year Andrew, all the best for 25!
Hi Andrew. I was very interested in the life insurance policy ,I understand in France and America that some policies have not paid out as people took an experimental VAX.
So it would be interesting to know if your insurance policy you were looking at would pay out ?
Love your TH-cam videos keep up the good work .
Kind regards Phil.
Andrew, good to see you got over the "Bug" that downed you at the Palladium. I agree about Baileys, it does make a really nice coffee, a bit too sweet to drink on it's own for me, but tasted change as we age! Interesting news from Sam, just goes to prove : this lot don't understand the first thing about what they are doing. Keep going with the campaign, and they will eventually HAVE to listen to common sense? or they will go bust! One way or another We will get them out! On to my bit: Machinery. Thanks for showing the prime movers, look forward to the other tons of equipment you have next visit. As always love what you show us, good and not so good, but things like this, are for the most part, simple mistakes that can be sorted next time! Final thoughts: Thanks for everything you have done for Farmers in the last few months and look forward to more of the same throughout the coming year. Thanks to for all your coverage of on farm and off farm background info in general. Best wishes as always, for the New Year to all involved in the farm and other activities. Thanks again, love to all and see you next year.
Thanks for all those comments Ian, happy new year.
Forget the coffee Andrew, fill with Bailey's & add ice !!
I do that as well!!!
Hi Andy all the best for 2025 to you and your family and also the farming situation.
J
Thanks Julian,
Morning Andrew
You remind me of my late father, he loved Baileys, drank it, cooked with it, his Baileys cheesecake was well received lol
My better half is also a Baileys coffee fan, I prefer a Jamesons in my coffee
Jezzas blunderbuss comment stands on the budget for sure
They're selling us out, not bit by bit but lock stock n barrel
Some farms and industries won't be there in 5 years, some of the potential damage will be irreparable
5 years of decimation could take 20 years to reverse
What a great mixed, interesting and educational update again, thank you Andrew. A non farmer, but you certainly keep it all on a level I can understand, and enjoy
The team have done a cracking job cleaning the kit, after all the hard work of sowing, hope the weather doesn't undo too much of that hardwork
All the very best to you, Rhonda, the team and all the families for the coming New Year
Looking forward to new adventures, problem solving and entertaining updates next year
Take care all
Back UK Farmer's 🇬🇧
Geoff
Morning Geoff. 😊👍
Just a thought from an outsider is it worth retaining the Fast track and disposing the Massey. The FT has hours on its side is ideal for road work when hedging which often destroys tractor transmissions with kerbing etc. The FT looks heavier so would potentially have a longer reach when fitting with a new hedger. Now you will probably have thought of all this and say in my ignorance I am talking codswallop which I will happily accept but Rightly or wrongly I thought I would risk the remark!
Thank you for the insights and the enjoyment of the past year and wishing you a successful New Year.
We don’t have a Massey, you mean the 2 cases? Trouble is the Fastrac is worth the most and I need the cash from that to put towards the replacement, can’t afford to do it any other way.
@ I said I could be talking codswallop! Sorry about that!
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Great update andrew the tractors look like new , who does the hedge cutting now ? The price of tractors now you might as well keep the puma and the jcb.
Fen farm pest control, they do PX as well. We’d get a 3 or 4 year old one to make it justifiable.
Great video as usual. I guess the wheat with the gaps/overlaps was drilled in November not December? The financial advisors must be rubbing their hands together now at the thought of all the commission they’ll earn selling life insurance policies to farmers who less than two months ago never thought they’d need one. Anyway Happy New Year to you all at Glebe Farm.
Yes, 15 th Nov, did I say Dec?
Afraid so. Nr the beginning.
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If Tesco's etc can sell items at a huge discount, then where are the costs being cut from.... sounds familiar ???
Interesting financial part, mates been quoted 40k for instant 3m policy. Makes me wonder why i cant buy more land with such a policy
Morning Andrew Happy New Year to you all🎉 very tidy yard and building's and machinery nicely put away undercover. What make of tractor do think you'll go for ? Excellent update interesting as always thanks 👌👍
JD 6215R
I’ll talk about it a bit more in next weeks waffle.
Good choice of tractor a friend has one it's a fantastic tractor been very reliable 👌👍
That’s what I’ve heard, pulls well for its hp too.
Hope you had a great Christmas the late wheat behind beet looks well, you were right about how to establish it after I thought a combination drill would have been better, wheat seed m2 did you drill ? What variety?
Gleam at 500 seeds and 550 seeds on some headlands.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard wouldn’t be my first choice to late drill to be honest but looks well at the moment at least you stuck decent seed rate on
I know from past years, anything which is in rows by Christmas tends to give us a decent yield on our soils and drought doesn’t have much effect. So I’d hope these give us 8.5-9 ton/ha minimum. Obviously I need to sell it right to complete the circle!
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard we can probably all brush up on our marketing strategies ! No pub talk here. So what d9 you suggest ? 🤦🏻♂
I rarely get it right! It’s the first time for years I’ve not got any sold forward, usually I’ll sell some up to 2 years in front. My best sales this year were in Oct 2022, for November just gone, £250, why did I only do 2 loads?! 🤷♂️ the rest have gone out around 185-190. I’ll talk a bit about marketing in my next vid.
How much would you want for the Mx 135
Not really sure, £15-£18k but It’s probably worth more to me than it’s worth! If we did get a used hedge cutter we’d still need a tractor.
Thanks for this video , after washing you go over all equipment and grease and oil it ?
Not just grease, any cracks in the frames will get welded, plated and painted, worn parts changed and any mods done also.
The Uk spending, more than they were taking in for year, would your Bussiness. last at that rate..same goes for Uk inc..
Definitely not
Cheers Andrew. Stake holder capitalism is not what anyone should want. Cheers for the update.
YOU'LL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY!!
Keep up the great videos wardy and please dont sell the mx135 even if it doesnt do much there some the best made
I know! I should restore it really.
Hi Andrew do you still have the simba parts for sale and how do I contact you . Thanks
They are Horsch, not Simba. What are you looking for? I’ll give you my email if you’re after Horsch.
@ That’s right you had some wheels. What’s your email?
The depth wheels and brackets have gone but I think we still have 4 wheels and tyres for the back row.
andrew@roywardfarms.com
Interesting what Sam had to say about the government and then life cover. Obviously i have not cross checked that number anywhere else but imo on the face of it 600 / month for 1 million cover looks a good deal. However should the policy run for the full 20 yrs term then the premium would total £144k . Its a risk and a gamble to know which way to go. As always your kit is kept up really well. I am a fan of running some older kit that's well serviced maintained especially if only clocking 5/600 hrs a year.
How do Andrew I don’t normally comment but but about the insurance you where talking about be careful if you take insurance out after the time span you would have take a new one and age will be older and health may no be so good and it will cost a lot more😮
I don't know about bottles of Bailey's, looks as though you could do with a bottle of T-cut colour restorer for the Case paint work Andrew. Good luck on the target of 50k subscribers, think you will have to increase to several video's per week with there being so many other TH-cam farmers now. I know you could present so much more content that we would be interested to watch with your lifetime of local contacts. From flooding and drainage, local food chain, engineering, agricultural college, agricultural history and museums, how agriculture has changed over the last 100 years in Lincolnshire, agricultural contractors and why some farms use them and the reasons as in why you don't say have an extra employee and a JD6215 and an excavator for ditching etc. What is your 1, 3, 5, 10 year plan for the farm? So much available content for a 3 or 4 times per week Waffle.
I don’t have time to do more than 2 vids a week apart from during harvest and I think people might get bored! We have some colour restorer and doing the paintwork of the tractors is one of the first jobs.
DON`T you find coffee before bed keeps you awake i would have whiskey in the Baileys ,wife` likes the chocolate one perhaps in coco ,need to get this terrible Government out
before they decide to tax the air we breath have a good one happy new year to you and the Gang
A Bowing 747 hitting the side of his new house wouldn’t keep him awake. A cup of coffee at bed time has no chance!
Not a chance, I can sleep on a clothes line!
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if you px the two case tractor s buy one tractor it Would not be such a large out lay Andrew hoping forbetter year
That’s what we will have to do.
Andrew get some Merlin from the Pendryn distillery in south wales
Far better than Baileys ;)
I don’t often go there!
£600 a month seems to me the vultures are gathering.
That’s Tom’s bonus gone then!!!! (Hopefully not) ?
Shh!!!
I recon nowt to cane sugar and lots of migrants came over at Christmas the Labour 3 are in for it next week All the best for 2025 keep it going
I saw that, over 1,000 come in since Christmas Day. If they are welcomed with open arms and no checks, how come we have to show a passport when ever we come back from holiday? 😡
Life insurance seems to be not to bad an option if the decision is not reversed and you can always stop it if a new government reverses the tax ! Only problem with life assurance is you have to sleep with one eye open 😂
I can sleep any where any time so having one eye open might be tricky!
Coffee before you go to bed???
Yes! Doesn’t affect me, I can sleep anywhere!
Due to recent solar flares ,farmers tractor programs, navigation ,have been disrupted, particularly Deere , to be fair,operator may it be at fault.This problem is documented, but kept quiet.
I know with us it’s Tom putting the offset on the wrong side. Trimble have been bad over the years, that’s why we’re concentrating on Greenstar, it seems much more stable.
Andrew,get rid of those old tractors and have a fleet of John Deeres!!!
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So what about the damage that was done under the Tory party for 14 years. To the country and to business.
Totally agree, the reason Labour have such a huge majority is because of the Tories.
Yes the Tories did huge damage to agriculture mainly due to brexit but that was unfortunately the vote of a misinformed population, but labour are driving the death nail into agriculture and actually punishing the better farmers who work hard to grow the food you work hard to buy, in your comments you mention Andrew having a private pension don't forget many workers have pensions with their jobs, you don't get that if your self employed so if you want a pension you need a private one, we don't know Andrews financial position but I guess he owns some of the land he farms, he rents a larger area of land and contract farms land that belongs to others, most farmers who are pushing on will be borrowing substantial amounts of money on the land they own, would you really think it wise to put yourself in that position without the backup of a pension should things go wrong,
Dead right Richard and you’re spot on with the land breakdown. Our friend James is one of those that thinks food magically appears on supermarket shelves and the countryside magically appears cared for and wildlife magically get fed!
That's history now and people`s minds forget very quickly, but I agree with your sentiments. The Tory damage goes back a lot further into the past, we are living the legacy of Thatcher's regime now .
Everybody should pay their bit in tax.If you can not make money from farming nowadays. Then, get out of farming.
Could say the same about Train drivers or the NHS always on strike, if you don’t like the wage then leave
@@KennethMorrison-p3s Yes, spot on.
Your comment is either deliberately provocative or insanely uninformed. Give your head a wobble.
We do pay our bit in taxes on profit but it’s insane to expect anyone, not just farmers, to pay tax on the asset which generates the first tax. No farms make big profits, that’s what putting cheap food on everyone’s plate has done to the industry. Hence why we used to have subsidies, so farms could have something to reinvest or expand. So many other businesses benefit from agriculture so if the industry is profitable, it’s spent and helps keep other businesses profitable. If all farmers sold up, where would your food come from? If you say abroad, look at the recent report, 48 chemicals, banned here, found in imported food we all eat. Also, it won’t be other famers buying it, land prices are so high, you can’t buy land from farming income. Only recently BA have bought 1,000 acres in Lincs to offset their carbon, they’re planting it with trees.
@ It affects the bottom farmers because they can’t afford to pay, but it also affects the top the ones that produce the vast majority of food and take the most risks, my tax this year is 400k and have invested 3 million the last 2 years well it’s now zero sod them seriously considering emigrating
Then you and other farmers say they have no money and can not make any. But you have all your private pensions and so on to live on. So you are not that hard up.
Bloody hell James, three comments on a single video? Is this issue living rent free in your head? Of course he has private pensions - as I do as a plumber. Now go make yourself a nice breakfast and calm down. No more typing on the internet today for you please 😂
Pension's and insurance's are not for everyone, I've had them, done very well out of them, and withdrawn from the market nowadays. Businesses, and business owners need them at times, to use for Tax purposes, that's part of business!
I’ve paid monthly for over 20 years with my own money so I have something to live on when the farm stops paying me. I’ve not given myself a pay rise in that time to help the farm. I’m not after the violin, just telling you as it is.
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@@manneroo Well said,obviously has a gold plated pension that everyone else pays for
How much would you want for the Mx 135