2021 wheat harvest starts just as the weather turns colder & it starts raining
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- The 2021wheat harvest was already two weeks later than last year and now the weather has turned cooler and wetter, it's really making harvest this year a stop-go affair.
Here's the link to BBCR4 Farming Today programme, where I explain how this year's harvest is going.. www.bbc.co.uk/...
This whole series has been more informative than anything blurted out on BBC Countryfile.
Countryfile and the BBC in general are more worried about "ticking boxes" than anything eles now, most of what they show is cheap and rubbish. Too much money spent on salaries and too many boxes to tick.
country file is guff
When Harry was interviewed by the BBC I wonder if they asked him about his diversity policy?
Farming Today is very much not Countryfile, that's for sure!
This is a short documentary to watch on youtube! Thank you for watching! 💖 "The Connections (2021) [short documentary]" 💖
I never could of imagined i would be watching a you tube video about the harvest over mainstream TV. Bloody brilliant . Love it. Better than anything i can get on TV. Thanks
This should be a series on tv, better than anything ive seen so interesting and delivered so well
Hello 'Harry's Farm', I was born in 1951, watching your 'Farm' vlogs are just like going back to school with a 'BIG' difference, your a very interesting teacher on a subject I have not been exposed to before. Great stuff, please continue with more. Regards, RichardA.
Good to educate us city wallers as to all the issues facing production of our daily bread! Thank you.
It's likely your daily bread is made from Canadian wheat, with most British wheat being feed grade.
Always remember back when I was a lad I was born 1971. Used to sit on a bail watching combines, bailers etc etc. Lot's more activity in a field back then. Bail cart. The local farmer always employed the Locals for the season. Team in the field loading the trailer, then back to the barn to load it. Leaving 2 to carry on loading the spare trailer. I was a spectator as I was a kid. Watching my dad, cousins, uncles and friends stack the barns. How things have changed. Really enjoyed watching 👍👍👍
Really informative narration and learn so much from the way Harry explains farming and its tribulations.
This is a short documentary to watch on youtube! Thank you for watching! 💖 "The Connections (2021) [short documentary]" 💖
I'm a dried vine fruit (sultanas) producer in Australia. I find Harry's Farm video's are absolutely fascinating. It's interesting to compare farming practices from the other side of the world and discover how many day to day farming issues are similar!
Cup of tea, Mars bar, Harry's Farm = bliss.
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"Aargh, weather!" - Harry voicing all British farmers. It's always wrong for one thing or another 😁
You misspelled Weva!
This is a short documentary to watch on youtube! Thank you for watching! 💖 "The Connections (2021) [short documentary]" 💖
Why don't they just build a convertible roof over all the fields??!!
Just like with EVs I'm sure they could give some story of how it supposedly benefits the planet and then the government would pay them billions in subsidies for it!
Harry's now got me tracking the weather in the Shilton area from the U.S.!
Fantastic video, teachers they should show these to children in primary schools. Also, nice watch Harry !
Love Harry’s channel, proper information. Unlike a couple of other popular uk farm channels that cater for the TH-cam equivalent of people that watch country file 🙄
Just done a 15 hr day that started at 7 with a zoom board meeting and continued with combining barley 5 miles from home then wheat at home,finished with putting the grain store “to bed” pushed up, swept up, cooling fans on etc then watched Harry’s harvest story!!! Farming just eats you up 24/7.
Secure your wealth in fixed supply suppressed assets such as physical silver, BTC, THETA etc. Thankyou for being a massive part of what keeps our people full up and prospering, you'll be in perfect shape for the famines and blackouts theyre going to push on us in a few months. This shit should peak in 2025 and get better eventually until the 2030s. As long as your wealth and food is secure, your bloodline will be fine in all ways, just stay healthy and self sufficient brotha.
I cannot understand why this channel doesn’t have more subscribers - truly excellent.
Thanks for going into detail about how you set up the machines and implements, and showing stuff like the combine's inner workings and the Fendt tractor's 3point linkage. It's all really interesting and informative stuff which other programs/channels tend to skip as it might be considered boring for us non-farmers: wrong! Keep up the good work, it's much appreciated.
As A born and bred londoner this is a great insight into what actually goes on at a farm Thanks Harry
Im not a farmer but Harry Farm and Dove Farms are brilliant and so informative and great to watch
These are brilliant videos, I did many a harvest years ago and to have these reminders of why we did some of the things we did is fantastic.
i am near Milan Linate airport, we can not harvest at this hour, cause the high moisture, here the wheat can reach 17 degree, so you can't put it in silos is too dangerous it can burns. However my compliments for the channel.P.S. i am sorry if i wrong some word.
Fantastic video as always Harry. Really lovely these videos. Informative and fascinating to watch.
what a nice shot of sunset with the combine in forground
As usual the British weather getting in the way once again! Glad your back on track now👍 Lovely red kite at the end, they are very common here in Hampshire as well
Cup of tea, slack off work as WFH, no Mars bar as on diet, Harry’s farm = bliss
I genuinely get so excited when you upload a video on this channel Harry, so interesting! Keep it up legend :)
It has been a joy and a privilege to follow this harvest from last year’s harvest. The drilling, the inputs; brilliant to be part of it. Thank you.
Thank you Harry and Charlie for your informative and enjoyable videos.
Love your videos man, all the way from the U.S.
Having a bit of grief with the belts on the combine in the last few weeks Harry 🤔 I'd be changing them more often if they compromise the harvesting, same with the other things that give up over time like the water pump and alternator that have give up recently too. If the engine is turbocharged I'd consider putting a new turbo on if you are keeping the machine. I hope the air filter gets blown out regularly with all the dust in the air.
Harry, “That Evil Looking Thing Absolutely Macerates the Straw.”, You’re So Funny...
Hi Harry, I work for the fire service. We are seeing a lot of barn fire at the moment. Would you consider doing a video on how farmers can reduce that risk?
We need more Harry’s in this world…. So we can eat good food and drive nice cars…
16.00 Bad sieve losses there harry, Combine driver could do with some tuition on combine settings.... Ouch.😣
I’m going to comment this on every video till it’s acknowledged 😂 I’ve binged watched every video from this channel during a period of self isolation and I’m hooked it’s brilliant. This channel has so much potential too and I would love to see multiple uploads a week, from day to day odd jobs etc not just when something big is happening. The popularity of clarksons farm and with light of there being a second series you should really look to bask on the popularity of that. Harry’s garage is also good but this channel is where it’s at, I hope to see more content. Cheers.
I'm with you on this Joseph. I'm certainly not a farmer, but these videos have totally altered my opinion of farms, farmers, their hard work, their necessity to the UK, and just how soul-destroying it can be....and I no longer begrudge any of them a penny they make, they earn every one of them.....
Agreed!!!
For some quality daily farming coverage look at OllBlogs Channel th-cam.com/users/a1olyh
Aimed at the general public with an easily digested style and format.
Clarkson's farm is just ridiculous buffoonery. How anyone can watch that who is interested in farming, is beyond me. Clarkson is the buffoon amongst ALL buffoons and his programmes are aimed at immature people with little to do in life but watch videos.
Harry, meanwhile is a respectable farmer and presenter who explains things in layman's terms without over simplifying it for the retarded ones in society. Harry certainly satisfies my curiosity regarding farming. I have loved watching the past two years harvests and I will be here for many more.
If you’re looking for daily uploads go follow Olly bloggs. He’s from Merseyside, arable farmer with roughly 2,500 acres of combinable crops. Runs big machinery and is honestly a spot on guy. Uploaded every single day since March last year. I’ve been working through his backlog for months now.
Was a pleasant surprise to hear you on Farming Today when I woke early the other morning :)
As always, very good insight and commentary into your work.
Another really interesting vid Harry. Shame they didn't pick the belt issue up pre harvest. Weather has been appalling this summer. Interesting to see the affect it has on wheat quality and price
Brill video- watched these from the start. Quick question, did you forward fix the price of the wheat, and if so do you forward fix for both milling and feed ???
Awesome video as always Harry. Tell it as it is farming. Amazing and informative at the same time. Thanks H for sharing.
I've lived rural Suffolk for about 14 years after living exclusively in towns and cities for the previous 44 years. So of course I see farming going on around me all the time but understood little of what was going on. This series lifts the lid on what all those farmers are doing and what all those bits of equipment are that I see laying around in the fields. I shall continue to watch through the year and use it as education for what is going on around me. I come to this channel from Harry's Garage (equally good) and like the way that it's about farming (and about cars over on Harry's Garage) and not about ego like another Cotswold farming programme I could mention. Keep up the good work!
Most unusual...a happy farmer! Knew it wouldn't last long though😉
Thank you so much harry and your son excellent job always enjoy interesting informative enjoyable ciao ciao
Thanks Harry
I’m really enjoying the farm videos. Keep up the great work Harry and Charlie
What I learned in this video was that half of harvesting is fixing the combine harvester. 🌾😅
“I’ve got a brand new combine harvester”… 🤣
Yes they never break down in the shed,always on the best harvest day
Where I live they also go on fire and its 40°C and the whole atea goes up in flames and doxens of farmers ...cockies...appear out of nowhere at high speed in white utes to put it out.
As always, Harry, very informative. Love knowing how combines work.
Would it be possible to see more of the livestock? Many thanks, David.
I asked a few farmers who where doing oilseeds this year and it's 50:50. Some people did well or average and others lost the crop to do various circumstances. So it where the same problems Harry mentioned. Now the weather is just rain after rain and if you are able to cut wheat it means it moisture content is 20%-is something. So a lot of extra work is needed to get the moisture % down. Also the weather of 2021 in the Baltic states has been very chaotic.
Thank you Harry for a very informative video I do like your videos because of the information you give. All the best Wayne.
We live just outside Zurich, Switzerland and are surrounded by similar but smaller fields of barley, wheat, rape, maize and dairy. Watching this farm has been hugely educational to us for understanding what has been going around us. Slight timing differences due to weather variations, but very similar.
Having lived just outside Zurich myself I can vouch for the worlds smallest fields. An entire agriculture on a wartime footing. Every sq metre has either something growing on it of eating the grass. Coming back to the UK and seeing a 40 acre field was (small compared to the US) but a nice change.
I do find Harry’s farm a very interesting watch, I do still love Harry’s Garage too.
Back before WWII here in the American Great Plains where wheat is grown from Texas and into Canada. Young farm boys who would work the harvest as it moved north would get a “harvest haircut.” Growing up in the 60’s my barber would ask me if I wanted a “harvest haircut,” but I always said no. He did it as a joke, but I knew that a “harvest haircut” was an all over buzz cut that was supposed to last the entire harvest season.
Hi seems a combine is high maintenance for very little work where as your high performance cars go on for years ,great video
Great informative content again Harry. Would love a one off colab with Jeremy and Kaleb over the hedge one time
Magic, thanks for uploading Harry.
great video - as always :) Also thought your Radio 4 interview was brilliant
You have so much knowledge.
Last year we had that greying of our main rice harvest. Normally the crop is a wonderful gold colour. It was a much wetter rainy season than normal and the rains came again just before harvesting. Still have a couple of tonnes in the barn. Luckily I like to eat rice every day.
Good Luck harry, hope all goes well.
Great Video Harry keep up the great content 👏👌🏻👍I was brought up in the Cotswolds I lived at Andoversford but now living in Norfolk East Anglia but wish I was back home in the Cotswolds ❤️
Really love your fantastic videos, but is your luminor really as scratched up as it looks?
£120’000 😳
That’s nearly a whole Alfa restoration
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yeah, but it's not all profit
@@richardhale2117 jeez mate
It was obviously a joke 😒
@@twoeyedbob And I took it as one. Sorry for my poorly crafted response. No offence intended!
Is this the crop (wheat) that was sold before you planted it ? Are you glad you sold it before or would you have been better off selling in the current market ?
Thank you, Harry. All the best with the wheat.
During harvest, I know your busier than ever, but bi weekly updates would be great. Bc this is a very good watch
I've been watching the weather Harry and feeling a bit sorry for you,hope things improve next week....................................
Have you ever found any interesting archaeology in your fields Harry?
Oh btw. Harry can you please take us through the features and instruments of the combine. It did look very interesting the small bit we got a glance of (just for us non-farmers)
May the force continue with you! 👍
We always get some sort of weather this time of year 🙄
As usual great video cheers Harry 👍🚜
Thank you, another great video! Thanks Harry :)
I love your channel, it's very interested and informative.
Farming by night. Fascinating.
It's lovely to see a farmer from the cotswolds right next to where i come from, the village of quenington i worked for lord st Aldwyn at William strip Estate for 10 years before it was sold a great place to work i worked mainly in the forestry but also helped with the sheep and on the farm, i loved helping on the farm when they were busy i learned so much about how to operate the many different machines and repair them i especially miss the harvest time, hard work but we always managed to have a laugh and a joke with everyone 😀 sadly most have passed away now they knew how to do there jobs well and not be pestered by the mobile phone all the time good luck with the farm , what is the name of it. Please.
Fantastic as ever - really interesting. So, help a townie time - how much wheat is actually good enough to bake bread with...? Assuming many farms have the same issue...
The farm where I am hasn’t even started harvest yet! Winter wheat and and spring barley still in the ground. Bloody weather…
Contractors are so busy trying to get it all in everyone is so behind
Kiwi cropping farmer Warren Darling broke a 25-year-old record for the highest yielding barley, growing 13.8 tonnes a hectare / 206 Bushels Per Acre. on their Timaru farm. . He grows winter barley and wheat for stock feed and rape seed crop for oil.
Instead of burning off crop residues these are incorporated into the soil, creating a friable compost-like topsoil which is ideal for establishing new crops. - th-cam.com/video/VSs_A4Uxab8/w-d-xo.html .NZ Harvest time. .th-cam.com/video/c59FimAHRnQ/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=KieranDoherty
I had to fit a new alternator on my MF combine last year. Price for alternator from main dealer £600. Price from alternator manufacturer distributors deleverd to the farm the next morning £180. This outrageous pricing seems to happen a lot on combine parts, I wonder if they think your busy you need it quickly and then charge whatever they like.
If you have a dealer who has links to Kramp, Sparex or Vapormatic they might be able to find a cheaper alternative to the genuine parts. Some of the aftermarket parts are ok and built buy by decent parts companies.
I am confused. The field you are showing in the video about colour and the difference with rain. I always thought that Barley had ears and Wheat did not. The crop you showed about colour had ears and looked like Barley to me. I may be wrong and todays wheat may have ears.
That wheat is called a bearded wheat. Good for milling and biscuits.
@@andrewgreen619 Thanks . Grew up on farms as father worked on the land. The crops have obviously evolved since I was a lad or they did not grow it.
Harry as someone who has worked in flour milling for the last 30 years, this year is dire in the UK we are unable to run the mill for large amounts of time at the moment due to a shortage of wheat (milling).
Usually run 150hrs plus but can only manage 90 due to lack of wheat!
Once bread starts becoming in short supply things are going to turn ugly :(
Interesting. I don’t set out to grow milling wheat but have found Skyfall does well on our droughty Costswold brash soils. I’m holding off selling any more until the market wakes up to the fact meeting normal milling standards is going to be tough this year
@@harrysgarage We use Skyfall a small amount, Our mill uses your yearly harvest in a day.
I sometimes feel the wheat merchants don't really give the farmers credit for being able to grow good milling wheat and give poor prices for potentially reasonable stuff.
Our biggest gripe on site is screenings, when I started in milling it was 3% but sometimes now its 12%!
I could post way more but some of it would probably get me in trouble.
Nice video mate 🌎🥃🇺🇸🏌🏽♂️
Hello time traveler
Harry good video. How many acres do you farm?
The ups and downs of farming must do your head in.
Good one Harry
Great video harry, few repairs this year on the combine, Hope you get it all cut soon. Do you do a winter service on it or leave it until next harvest with a flat battery?
Another great video Harry. Always learn something new!
Excellent content!!! from an ex-Farmer!!!!
While this might have been discussed already, but in my country it's customary for the farmer to dry his crop to under 14% before selling it. I'm curious, what's the maximum moisture percentage you can sell and what do you do if it's too high?
Sorry to hear about the grading of wheat. There’s always a bit of bad with the good. Important to focus on the good, especially when the bad is out of your hands
yep so thats where it goes wrong, planted as milling wheat, late season becomes animal feed which is where the efficiency of production drops to 60% and your return as well, in france you can't plant wheat consequatively. all understandable from your perspective, over here they are facing the same probs harvesting they only started around the 19th, my fathers rule of thumb was comence before the 20th or you are in probs.
Nice sunset shot.
Great video 👍 It seems like niggle after niggle with the combine - all part of it I guess
Fascinating video as ever. I’d be intrigued to know if although the higher moisture content grain has a lower value per tonne, it being a higher moisture content it weighs more so takes less grain to make a tonne in physical weight
The millers have a calculation for how much it costs to dry the wheat down to their required moisture and deduct that cost from your final cheque, saying that it gets tipped in a heap of dry wheat and mixed in so they have you by the balls. Then again every farmer has a heap of wet grain to mix in when loading a lorry so it's a battle of wits!
Not far from you in Gloucester Harry and we have not had any rain to speak of for over a week.
Out of interest Harry do you have more problems than average with your combine? It seems like it's throwing quite a few problems at you this year!
@@composimmonite3918 Well said.
@Cog - I get that, but what you say happens every year and by your comment it sounds like it happens to many farmers, so it should be something you can plan for particularly when there are so many £000's of crops at stake. I'm no expert but perhaps the service could include changing all the belts, having much more frequent replacement intervals for parts that fail regularly (e.g. water pump, radiators, hoses etc), or include running the combine (with or without a load) for several hours just to make sure problems have time to crop up (no pun intended) when all the parts are brought up to temperature etc.
Are the tires on the rear of the combine on backwards? The pattern rotates the opposite direction to the fronts
Back wheels are not driven they put them on in reverse to driven wheel as they steer better that way.
Got 1100 acres of OSR in. Into first fields of 3000 acres of wheat in the cold. Feeling your pain.
It's the after affect of the linseed Harry
you seemed to have a few breakdowns after the pre-harvest service... I guess this is just bad luck?
Put the bale hides out on the OSR for the pigeon shooters, much appreciated in the winter.
Do Farmers own that kind of equipment or rent it? Or are they contractors that are brought in.
make some cider harry give old Henry some competition... id buy that.
Harry, before the 1993 ban on burning straw came into force, did the practice of burning the straw add more benefits (potash ?) to the soil than leaving the chopped straw of today ?
Definitely not. For a start it will heat up your topsoil and kill most of the bacteria and fungi and other soil organisms although it will also kill weed seeds. Chopping it feeds the soil worms and fungi but will soak up nitrogen. The best case scenario is to bale it, use it as bedding for cattle and then compost it and re-apply it in a much more nutrient available, biologically active product.
Bring back stubble burning!!! So much fun take me back too my youth,