Andrew you have to be one of the best farmers on TH-cam, the amount of time and effort you put into trial plots and getting your land right for the seeding shows your commitment to the future of farming.
Just watched with my 11 yr old daughter Heather, she said he really cares about his farm !! and loving the hob nob biscuits! What a lovely smile from Oscar eating his sandwiches. Great update thanks Andrew!
That farm which is flooding badly should get funding ..there all way plenty going on I've been watching here in the South east England spraying drilling ploughing ect this week different spray equipment Andrew
Well said! Red Tractor should take a leaf out of European farmers corporative. Run by Farmers, FOR Farmers ! More like RED TAPE TRACTOR run by accountants 😮💨
Another fantastic update Andrew really interesting with all the technology. Look like the sugar beet has gone in well looking forward to seeing the beans going in
Sunday morning - coffee and wardys waffle. Excellent update - that sprayer on off is exactly bob on - had loads of people wanting to this but it seems the practicality and concept of mapping the zones to switch off that is the issue. Good work on strip till - be interesting to see the establishment and growth through the season
Andrew another good up date on what you are doing on the farm. The new power harrow was making a great job on getting the land down so you could get the sugar beet in. We still use a power harrow which has a drill on the back. The update on the red tractor was a good update and yes a lot of it is not fit for purpose and I think everyone should be on same level so we all get the same amount of money for the crops we produce but at the moment it is one rule for one and one rule for another. Thank you Andrew once again for another great update 👍
I would love to have shown this to Dad, He kept up fairly well while he was working but I don't think there was this level of sophistication. His early memories were being put into the roof of the cow shed by the bull and needing rescue and trying to control a team of horses at Scampton (I think) while someone thought it would be fun to fly a Spitfire past, nice and low! (I know not the aircraft you associate with there) His last memory was jumping on a Combine with an old workmate and nearly having a personal accident as the Combine approached the beck and the driver took no interest, he said it just turned on it's own. Back home for a change of underwear!
Another great update Andrew, the machines very impressive. The way you explain and prepare shows you are thinking of the future. I will agree with you in regards to land conditions this year, I have not seen things like it before . Keep up the videos Andrew.
Nice to see your family at least you’re working for a future! Surprising how the farm is coming together after all the wet, but don’t you need a lot of tackle, easy to become overcapitalised on machinery.
Great video Andy. Its good to see how you run your farm and farming in general. At least we are getting an honest true insight into farming. There is too much BS these days I`m afraid. Some of that equipment is brilliant. Keep up the good work. Thanks J
Hi folks , Thanks Andrew great video update 👍 why has a machine not been developed striptill and plant at the same time could that happen. Hope for some dry weather to lift every farmers spirits 🎉
Great video Andrew. Good to see a mix of machinery working. I saw a Case with a power harrow working yesterday near Thurlby. There is a farming channel from America I watch, and they use a strip till machine, good to see those you had on demo. I do hope Henry and the rest of the farmers get the compensation they deserve, I did read about it this last week.
Strip till looks to be forming a ridge effect were beet will be drilled into bottom of ridge giving newly germinated beet seed protection from wind and making micro climate
An intersting update with some good comments regarding Red Tractor and the way forward hopefully some of the ideas come to fruition. Great impressive sprayer. I noticed the Amazon drill had torx screws in the bottom on the tank and the small seed sat in it, with only a small amount every seed helps!! Change to see farming happening and not looking at flooded land. Until Wednesday
Fascinating insight to what really goes on in farming, the technology and science required to move it into the next era is amazing and you must be at the forefront of it, its people like you who drive innovation forward, very commendable and keep up the excellent work. 👍
A great edition Andrew. Particularly interested in the Red Tractor meeting. Sounds like the consensus of opinion was in the right direction. We heard that some of it got fairly vocal! We must get NFU, the owners of RT to stop kowtowing to the Supermarkets demands upon RT. If that doesn’t happen RT will be dead and will need scrapping in favour of a completely new scheme. Would like to have heard a little more about the particularly important rule preventing only English Farmers using Untreated Urea after 31st March. In a year like this, how was that possible? This has absolutely nothing to do with food safety! What they have done is taken something that is supposed voluntary is and made it compulsory. Voluntary implies choice, not compulsion. In just the same way that unless we farmers are members of Red Tractor, we cannot sell our produce. Yet another bit of ‘involuntary compulsion’! Thanks for your report.
The NFU are not the owners of RT. They help with its governance along with UFU, NFU Scotland, AHDB, Dairy Uk and BRC. There’s a lot wrong with it and I’ll do my best to try to change it along with a few others.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard There are obviously strong connections between Red Tractor as Founders of and the governance of it. Nonetheless Andrew, please carry on doing your best with the few (too many, officially!) others to change it. Well done so far. Apart from resigning from it en masse, which most of us are too terrified to do individually, due to the catastrophic financial consequences it will cause, we find it difficult to know what to do to help you. Many, have of course resigned from NFU over it all, in disgust. However, what is needed is somebody such as yourself to lead the revolution! With the rest of us right behind you.
Cracking update Andrew. Nice to see you back out in the fields getting work done I bet your relieved. Good to had some machines there to try to help out, well you can now work out what Oscar wants for his birthday or Christmas a drone 😂😂 nice to see you voice your opinions on red tractor because it’s just not working is it? Keep the good videos coming. 😊
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard 100% mate and good on you for doing so, I tell a lot off the people down here to watch your videos, wether they do or not is another question 😂😂
Great update Andrew, busy week with one thing or another, fantastic to see demo's working alongside each other, sprayer looks to be bang on , nice Simba model on the windowsill of the office 👌 do you have a collection of model's. Power harrow is definitely king of machine's to sort out tough land, done a cracking job, your youngest grandson Charlie is the same age as my first grandson 🤗 All the best Lee
Thanks Andrew, As you said machinery packed today. 8 metre Mashio worm basher was impressive ! Red tractor overhaul is overdue, fingers crossed for positive outcomes and for ALL flooded farms. Riseholme campus looks good. What happened to the old one ? Many,many happy memories 89-92.
Those no spray/fert zones might have taken some time to set up but no doubt what your save on inputs will no doubt be worth it. Take it it will be a blanket spray on herbicides to theses areas though to stop the patches becoming to weedy. Great video again
Saw Henry on GB News being interviewed by Nigel Farage. He came across very well. He explaining his situation, not been eligible for flood recovery funding which is so wrong. I thought he was very diplomatic (a lot more than I would have been!). Not mentioning that the flooding was mainly caused by the Environmental Agency incompetence.
Andrew. Quite right about red tractor at the moment need to get back to basics. Self policing I am not sure about I believe it hasn't worked in other industries. We do need a scheme though more for the general public to believe in and understand its meaning which brings me to the utterly useless red tractor advert on television. I can really see a benefit to liquid fertilizer on patchy crops not something one could do with a twin disc fertilizer spreader such as ours! Interesting strip tillage machines would love to send you a short video of our striger planting oilseed Rape.
just found your channel, great job! Is there any sub surface drainage? I know the entire UK has had excessive rain from the channels I watch. How do you deal with fragipan, compaction, etc.? The strp till rigs both looked good, and from the looks of your drill/planter, it will plant well in less than perfect seeded. Double and single disc openers changed everything here in the U.S. Again, great content, great channel.
Mission Creep in my view is the biggest issue to contend with in all gov. initiated agencies. Often justified as modernisation and improvement. In some cases justified but regular reviews are essential, 20 plus years is a bit extreme. As we used to say "SO MUCH RED TAPE". You feel as though you're drowning under it. 👍👍 Chocolate biscuits and coffee are a must.
Brilliant video and it shows the importance farmers engaging with the political side of the business to make sure the politicians and supermarkets are kept honest. Can you put a set of front links etc on the John Deere 8RX, ideal then for a front hopper etc.
This is what Sunday mornings are all about! Well done Andrew, If you can't learn anything from this video, I feel sorry for you. This is how farming should be portrayed. It shows how and why things are done, and the consequences of not doing something! Hat's off to you Andrew, at 68 I've learnt a lot from you in the past few months since I found you. I'm an ex AG Engineer who has been out of the business for 40 years, but I still love the trade. If you keep going like this, I might get some sort of idea about what has gone on in the time I've been away. Thanks again for the machinery insight. That is what I really love even today. I hope Henry and the others get what they so deserve, he has gone from a profitable farmer to poverty because of the red tape and short sightedness of others.Its not fair!
Nice update, no chance of Linford Christie speeds after all those Hob Nobs! Lovely to see Sam, Oscar and Charlie, two future farmers! Interesting ref farm assurance schemes… as a consumer I immediately see through but still feel wildly offended and angry about fake farms, like we’re thick gullible consumers who will believe the label. ‘Woodside Farm’ sounds bucolic and traditional, but it doesn’t exist, it’s a blatant lie, the product comes from some nasty windowless factory, not a proper farm with an honest farmer. Fingers crossed for good news ref Henry very soon, to be denied recompense for bad external agency land management is insanely unfair.
From a consumers point of view if red tractor doesn’t cover all food stuffs then it’s irrelevant and as far as Union Jack is concerned surely that’s miss selling
Thanks Wardy for another very informative video. Love the content as a non farmer my question would be I buy British in supermarkets. How do I know which products have the GB flag but are just packed in the uk. I think that is a scam of epic proportions. I only buy diary, meat, fish and bread from diary direct to consumer butchers, fishmongers and ensure I buy local. I would love to name and shame supermarkets who pack foreign produce with a UK sticker.keep up the great content. Will
What speed were you travelling with that Amazone planter on the plots? We’re planning to start seeding here in Canada April 29th with a new Vaderstadt/Seed Hawk drill. With the Bourgault drill which just left us 5mph was the max on cereals and only 4mph in Canola (rape) to maintain consistent depth so also hoping to be able to up those speeds a little. We direct drill everything - for Canola the ability to efficiently travel even 1mph faster would help timeliness in our very limited seeding window.
One thing that upsets me as a consumer is the idea that we are eating produce from all over the world but marked with the Union Jack. You would never see this in France or even in our other home in the UAE, all fresh produce in the UAE shows exactly the country it was grown in. One other thing I find disappointing is that farmers mainly use tractors and farm equipment manufactured abroad. It would be so much better if you bought British, that may need help from the government to make an even playing field, but if we are to buy British it would be good if everyone was incentivised to buy British
Non-farmer so I’m going to ask a novice’s question, what are the different machines and their depths and differences which determine which one you use? E.g. so from the shallowest and least disruptive (Simba Solo?) to medium cultivation (power harrow?) to the deepest (presumably traditional ploughing?). What determines your choice of machine?
Difficult to answer but it’s down to experience and knowledge your soil type and conditions at the time. Some farmers never change anything but I’m a big believer in never standing still.
Red Tractor - Isn't the advantage in having the scheme only applying to UK grown produce that the consumers are steered/encouraged to buy British food? Also an environmental advantage that UK produce and in particular if "local" will have a lot smaller environmental print, lower food miles.
I understand the original aim was to give the public confidence in the food we produce and its safe to eat and produced while caring for the environment. Buying British could have been an idea as well but because of our current labelling regs, unless you look at the packet small print, you never know what’s British and what isn’t.
Just remember we export a lot of grain too, and our standards could maybe not adhere to foreign standards unfortunate predicament. I'm still waiting for someone to show me the legal requirements of red tractor. The whole lot needs to go
Did they thought about putting the stritill in front of the tractor and behind the seeder to go one pass and not miss the lines in case no gps is added?
Great video have you dared tell Philip wright you’ve bought a power harrow (tool of the devil) bet his eyes will roll and you’ll get an “oh Andrew what have you bought that for!”
Could you mount the drill on to the strip cultivator under dryer conditions ,bugger i thought a drill such as an old type Stanhay precision drill ,not some thing wich looks as it could launch a moon rocket
Most definitely, trouble is we only have 60 acres on light land every year so it wouldn’t be cost effective. I was going to try it on the heavy land last autumn but the weather put paid to that. Apparently on heavy land it needs one pass in the autumn and another in front of the drill in the spring.
Henry's farm doesn't qualify!!! That is unbelievable, on reflection it is believable given the total lack of competence of all those involved. Mark Spencer needs to pull his finger out. He should of demanded an immediate meeting with DEFRA and the EA and get these farms included. No more excuses needs sorting within 24 hours. Who at DEFRA/EA do we need to write to?
Hob nob bribery, pity can't see which strip drill does best under ground an thought in wet sub smers the ground causing a pan?.can ur sprayer now just fert the strip .
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Andrew you have to be one of the best farmers on TH-cam, the amount of time and effort you put into trial plots and getting your land right for the seeding shows your commitment to the future of farming.
Standing still is not an option, you only go backwards.
Very impressed with your attention to detail with the spraying.And your hard work with the red tractor and environmental agency it can’t be easy !
It’s not!
Totally agree with everything you said. Duplication is pointless and a waste of time and money.
Red tractor is about the FOOD not where its packaged.
Always brilliant seeing new things in the field strip till looks so good
Just watched with my 11 yr old daughter Heather, she said he really cares about his farm !! and loving the hob nob biscuits! What a lovely smile from Oscar eating his sandwiches. Great update thanks Andrew!
That farm which is flooding badly should get funding ..there all way plenty going on I've been watching here in the South east England spraying drilling ploughing ect this week different spray equipment Andrew
Great Video Andrew, the sprayer is impressive, the red tractor plan sound great, thanks for sharing
After the time and trouble we took to map the areas, I’m really pleased it worked!
Beautiful display of machines and implements in the field. And it's always nice to have the little ones around the farm.
Well said! Red Tractor should take a leaf out of European farmers corporative. Run by Farmers, FOR Farmers ! More like RED TAPE TRACTOR run by accountants 😮💨
Another fantastic update Andrew really interesting with all the technology. Look like the sugar beet has gone in well looking forward to seeing the beans going in
Sunday morning - coffee and wardys waffle. Excellent update - that sprayer on off is exactly bob on - had loads of people wanting to this but it seems the practicality and concept of mapping the zones to switch off that is the issue. Good work on strip till - be interesting to see the establishment and growth through the season
So pleased the no spray zones worked.
Andrew another good up date on what you are doing on the farm. The new power harrow was making a great job on getting the land down so you could get the sugar beet in. We still use a power harrow which has a drill on the back. The update on the red tractor was a good update and yes a lot of it is not fit for purpose and I think everyone should be on same level so we all get the same amount of money for the crops we produce but at the moment it is one rule for one and one rule for another.
Thank you Andrew once again for another great update 👍
I would love to have shown this to Dad, He kept up fairly well while he was working but I don't think there was this level of sophistication. His early memories were being put into the roof of the cow shed by the bull and needing rescue and trying to control a team of horses at Scampton (I think) while someone thought it would be fun to fly a Spitfire past, nice and low! (I know not the aircraft you associate with there) His last memory was jumping on a Combine with an old workmate and nearly having a personal accident as the Combine approached the beck and the driver took no interest, he said it just turned on it's own. Back home for a change of underwear!
Great comment. 👍
Another great update Andrew, the machines very impressive. The way you explain and prepare shows you are thinking of the future. I will agree with you in regards to land conditions this year, I have not seen things like it before . Keep up the videos Andrew.
Nice to see your family at least you’re working for a future! Surprising how the farm is coming together after all the wet, but don’t you need a lot of tackle, easy to become overcapitalised on machinery.
Great video Andy. Its good to see how you run your farm and farming in general. At least we are getting an honest true insight into farming. There is too much BS these days I`m afraid.
Some of that equipment is brilliant. Keep up the good work.
Thanks J
Hi folks , Thanks Andrew great video update 👍 why has a machine not been developed striptill and plant at the same time could that happen. Hope for some dry weather to lift every farmers spirits 🎉
Great video very interesting and equally impressive. GPS has transformed farming since my days of tractor driving back in the eighties and nineties,
Great video Andrew. Good to see a mix of machinery working. I saw a Case with a power harrow working yesterday near Thurlby. There is a farming channel from America I watch, and they use a strip till machine, good to see those you had on demo. I do hope Henry and the rest of the farmers get the compensation they deserve, I did read about it this last week.
Thanks Andrew another brilliant update and let’s hope those idiots in the EA etc see sense and do what’s right re the flood relief for all Farmers.
Great video update. Thanks.
Another great blog Andrew very interesting
Strip till looks to be forming a ridge effect were beet will be drilled into bottom of ridge giving newly germinated beet seed protection from wind and making micro climate
Wot an interesting video thank you
great video impressive equipment
An intersting update with some good comments regarding Red Tractor and the way forward hopefully some of the ideas come to fruition. Great impressive sprayer. I noticed the Amazon drill had torx screws in the bottom on the tank and the small seed sat in it, with only a small amount every seed helps!! Change to see farming happening and not looking at flooded land. Until Wednesday
Fascinating insight to what really goes on in farming, the technology and science required to move it into the next era is amazing and you must be at the forefront of it, its people like you who drive innovation forward, very commendable and keep up the excellent work. 👍
Nice to see some spring work going on.
Interesting update, thankyou for all your hard work, some interesting machinery on show.
Nice update.
A great edition Andrew.
Particularly interested in the Red Tractor meeting. Sounds like the consensus of opinion was in the right direction. We heard that some of it got fairly vocal!
We must get NFU, the owners of RT to stop kowtowing to the Supermarkets demands upon RT.
If that doesn’t happen RT will be dead and will need scrapping in favour of a completely new scheme.
Would like to have heard a little more about the particularly important rule preventing only English Farmers using Untreated Urea after 31st March.
In a year like this, how was that possible?
This has absolutely nothing to do with food safety!
What they have done is taken something that is supposed voluntary is and made it compulsory.
Voluntary implies choice, not compulsion.
In just the same way that unless we farmers are members of Red Tractor, we cannot sell our produce.
Yet another bit of ‘involuntary compulsion’!
Thanks for your report.
The NFU are not the owners of RT. They help with its governance along with UFU, NFU Scotland, AHDB, Dairy Uk and BRC. There’s a lot wrong with it and I’ll do my best to try to change it along with a few others.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard There are obviously strong connections between Red Tractor as Founders of and the governance of it.
Nonetheless Andrew, please carry on doing your best with the few (too many, officially!) others to change it.
Well done so far.
Apart from resigning from it en masse, which most of us are too terrified to do individually, due to the catastrophic financial consequences it will cause, we find it difficult to know what to do to help you.
Many, have of course resigned from NFU over it all, in disgust.
However, what is needed is somebody such as yourself to lead the revolution!
With the rest of us right behind you.
Hi great video, wet my garden is just put in the potatoes, 2 weeks late Olly in same condition as you, have a good week, c
Cracking update Andrew. Nice to see you back out in the fields getting work done I bet your relieved. Good to had some machines there to try to help out, well you can now work out what Oscar wants for his birthday or Christmas a drone 😂😂 nice to see you voice your opinions on red tractor because it’s just not working is it? Keep the good videos coming. 😊
Our industry needs strong voices and people calling out, it’s the only way to highlight what’s happening.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard 100% mate and good on you for doing so, I tell a lot off the people down here to watch your videos, wether they do or not is another question 😂😂
😂😂😂🤦♂️
Hi Andrew, are you putting on same amount of nitrogen in 2 applications as you would with 3?
@johnmullaney3445 yes!
Great video Andrew, at long last some planting, with dust rising, congratulations on your new grandson.
Thanks but I didn’t have much to do with him apart from producing Sam his mum!!!
Great update Andrew, busy week with one thing or another, fantastic to see demo's working alongside each other, sprayer looks to be bang on , nice Simba model on the windowsill of the office 👌 do you have a collection of model's. Power harrow is definitely king of machine's to sort out tough land, done a cracking job, your youngest grandson Charlie is the same age as my first grandson 🤗
All the best Lee
I don’t, with all the dumbs kit we still use, I’d like one of everything! Brilliant re grandsons! 👍
Horizon striptill. 10kmh plus. 👌
Plough it let it dry ....out 😊🎉
Great video Andrew
Thanks Andrew,
As you said machinery packed today. 8 metre Mashio worm basher was impressive !
Red tractor overhaul is overdue, fingers crossed for positive outcomes and for ALL flooded farms.
Riseholme campus looks good. What happened to the old one ? Many,many happy memories 89-92.
It’s still there but run by Lincoln Uni.
Those no spray/fert zones might have taken some time to set up but no doubt what your save on inputs will no doubt be worth it. Take it it will be a blanket spray on herbicides to theses areas though to stop the patches becoming to weedy. Great video again
Maybe but looking to spray round up!
Saw Henry on GB News being interviewed by Nigel Farage. He came across very well. He explaining his situation, not been eligible for flood recovery funding which is so wrong. I thought he was very diplomatic (a lot more than I would have been!). Not mentioning that the flooding was mainly caused by the Environmental Agency incompetence.
He was inundated with requests that day. Unreal he wasn’t elegible but I think he’ll get something but no where near what he should.
Andrew. Quite right about red tractor at the moment need to get back to basics. Self policing I am not sure about I believe it hasn't worked in other industries. We do need a scheme though more for the general public to believe in and understand its meaning which brings me to the utterly useless red tractor advert on television. I can really see a benefit to liquid fertilizer on patchy crops not something one could do with a twin disc fertilizer spreader such as ours! Interesting strip tillage machines would love to send you a short video of our striger planting oilseed Rape.
That RT advert on TV is embarrassing, if that’s the best they can come up with, they need a different production company.
I prefer the finish made by the Kuhn strip tiller. I wonder if they will develop one with seeder units fitted in futures?
just found your channel, great job! Is there any sub surface drainage? I know the entire UK has had excessive rain from the channels I watch. How do you deal with fragipan, compaction, etc.? The strp till rigs both looked good, and from the looks of your drill/planter, it will plant well in less than perfect seeded. Double and single disc openers changed everything here in the U.S. Again, great content, great channel.
Welcome! Look at updates 64,65 & 66. They give a full overview of the farm and machinery. 😊
Mission Creep in my view is the biggest issue to contend with in all gov. initiated agencies. Often justified as modernisation and improvement. In some cases justified but regular reviews are essential, 20 plus years is a bit extreme. As we used to say "SO MUCH RED TAPE". You feel as though you're drowning under it. 👍👍 Chocolate biscuits and coffee are a must.
Brilliant video and it shows the importance farmers engaging with the political side of the business to make sure the politicians and supermarkets are kept honest.
Can you put a set of front links etc on the John Deere 8RX, ideal then for a front hopper etc.
We could but I think it would be cheaper to fit when new.
This is what Sunday mornings are all about! Well done Andrew, If you can't learn anything from this video, I feel sorry for you. This is how farming should be portrayed. It shows how and why things are done, and the consequences of not doing something! Hat's off to you Andrew, at 68 I've learnt a lot from you in the past few months since I found you. I'm an ex AG Engineer who has been out of the business for 40 years, but I still love the trade. If you keep going like this, I might get some sort of idea about what has gone on in the time I've been away. Thanks again for the machinery insight. That is what I really love even today. I hope Henry and the others get what they so deserve, he has gone from a profitable farmer to poverty because of the red tape and short sightedness of others.Its not fair!
Thank you.
Nice update, no chance of Linford Christie speeds after all those Hob Nobs! Lovely to see Sam, Oscar and Charlie, two future farmers! Interesting ref farm assurance schemes… as a consumer I immediately see through but still feel wildly offended and angry about fake farms, like we’re thick gullible consumers who will believe the label. ‘Woodside Farm’ sounds bucolic and traditional, but it doesn’t exist, it’s a blatant lie, the product comes from some nasty windowless factory, not a proper farm with an honest farmer. Fingers crossed for good news ref Henry very soon, to be denied recompense for bad external agency land management is insanely unfair.
Totally agree Rob, so many things wrong.
Seedbed cultivator might be faster than a power Harrow. Might be to wet still though. Work on brink clay in Kent!!
From a consumers point of view if red tractor doesn’t cover all food stuffs then it’s irrelevant and as far as Union Jack is concerned surely that’s miss selling
Totally.
good video Andrew👍
Thanks Wardy for another very informative video. Love the content as a non farmer my question would be I buy British in supermarkets. How do I know which products have the GB flag but are just packed in the uk. I think that is a scam of epic proportions.
I only buy diary, meat, fish and bread from diary direct to consumer butchers, fishmongers and ensure I buy local. I would love to name and shame supermarkets who pack foreign produce with a UK sticker.keep up the great content. Will
That’s the problem, because of current regs, you cannot guarantee food with a 🇬🇧 on is British. The government really need to get a grip on this.
Rather thn Red Tractor, why not MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN. bloody love Maschio's, it's all in the leveling board as to the job it makes.
What speed were you travelling with that Amazone planter on the plots?
We’re planning to start seeding here in Canada April 29th with a new Vaderstadt/Seed Hawk drill. With the Bourgault drill which just left us 5mph was the max on cereals and only 4mph in Canola (rape) to maintain consistent depth so also hoping to be able to up those speeds a little. We direct drill everything - for Canola the ability to efficiently travel even 1mph faster would help timeliness in our very limited seeding window.
I think about 12 kph
All the people who said power harrow finished and combi drills suffering this year
I hope you get results with the flooding Andrew.
In a normal fair world, all rivers would qualify, one would think?
Always looking for new methods and technology Andrew, I like it. If only some one could find a way of turning the water tap off in the sky eh !!
Let me know when you’ve found how to do that!!
If we could, nature wouldn't know when to turn it back on !!
If you did strip till each season in the same fields, would you want to adjust the strips over each year?
Different crops would require different row widths so they’d be on different strips anyway.
One thing that upsets me as a consumer is the idea that we are eating produce from all over the world but marked with the Union Jack. You would never see this in France or even in our other home in the UAE, all fresh produce in the UAE shows exactly the country it was grown in.
One other thing I find disappointing is that farmers mainly use tractors and farm equipment manufactured abroad. It would be so much better if you bought British, that may need help from the government to make an even playing field, but if we are to buy British it would be good if everyone was incentivised to buy British
You need to get on to the government!
What the quality of our food (as defined by Red Tractor) got to do with a farmers personnel records and the like - utter tosh.
Non-farmer so I’m going to ask a novice’s question, what are the different machines and their depths and differences which determine which one you use? E.g. so from the shallowest and least disruptive (Simba Solo?) to medium cultivation (power harrow?) to the deepest (presumably traditional ploughing?). What determines your choice of machine?
Difficult to answer but it’s down to experience and knowledge your soil type and conditions at the time. Some farmers never change anything but I’m a big believer in never standing still.
It’s the same in the egg job to many audits all inspecting the same thing and all going above and beyond what they were set up as which is food safety
Strip till does/will your sprayer work with it?
The rest of the field was tramlined but strip till not
Red Tractor - Isn't the advantage in having the scheme only applying to UK grown produce that the consumers are steered/encouraged to buy British food? Also an environmental advantage that UK produce and in particular if "local" will have a lot smaller environmental print, lower food miles.
I understand the original aim was to give the public confidence in the food we produce and its safe to eat and produced while caring for the environment. Buying British could have been an idea as well but because of our current labelling regs, unless you look at the packet small print, you never know what’s British and what isn’t.
Just remember we export a lot of grain too, and our standards could maybe not adhere to foreign standards unfortunate predicament.
I'm still waiting for someone to show me the legal requirements of red tractor. The whole lot needs to go
Your audit prep is exactly what I do and makes the whole thing a non-event. Maybe some education on how to prepare for audits is what is needed?
I’m all for making everything easy for myself or at least I try to!
Did they thought about putting the stritill in front of the tractor and behind the seeder to go one pass and not miss the lines in case no gps is added?
We did t have a drill small enough but that would work. We also wanted to see the 2 strip till machines at work.
Great video have you dared tell Philip wright you’ve bought a power harrow (tool of the devil) bet his eyes will roll and you’ll get an “oh Andrew what have you bought that for!”
I daren’t tell Philip!!!
Could you mount the drill on to the strip cultivator under dryer conditions ,bugger i thought a drill such as an old type Stanhay precision drill ,not some thing wich looks as it could launch a moon rocket
Most definitely, trouble is we only have 60 acres on light land every year so it wouldn’t be cost effective. I was going to try it on the heavy land last autumn but the weather put paid to that. Apparently on heavy land it needs one pass in the autumn and another in front of the drill in the spring.
How much grain have you in store!! They might as well ask how much money have you in the bank!!
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The strip till looks a good idea, but don’t you need to work all the sewage sludge into the ground?
Possibly.
I thought all sewage sludge had to be incorporated within 24 hours of spreading not partially incorporated Andrew ?🤔
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could tea and biscuits be seen as a kind of bribery lol
Noooooo, of course not!!!!
Henry's farm doesn't qualify!!! That is unbelievable, on reflection it is believable given the total lack of competence of all those involved. Mark Spencer needs to pull his finger out. He should of demanded an immediate meeting with DEFRA and the EA and get these farms included. No more excuses needs sorting within 24 hours. Who at DEFRA/EA do we need to write to?
I was in touch with them all and the RPA guy I know trying to help. I think it’s now sorted but waiting for clarification.
Thank you.
Your next tricky farming decision Andrew is looming namely renewing your sugar beet contract with British sugar are they going to pay you enough ?
We did that a few months ago at £40/ton.
Hob nob bribery, pity can't see which strip drill does best under ground an thought in wet sub smers the ground causing a pan?.can ur sprayer now just fert the strip .
Hello! You are not pronoucing "Maschio" correctly! It sounds "mas_quio".
Greetings.
I’m from Lincolnshire, we speak differently!!
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard That's no excuse for an italian word (means "male")!
I just meant to be didactic...