Farm update 291 Wheat trial plots harvested and visit PX Farms
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- I spend a fun filled 3 hours with James Peck, PX Farms, at the farm near Grantham in Lincs which they Contract Farm. There is a lot of footage of a 12m Horsch Terrano FM behind 600 hp Challengers. James and I talk about the harvest, yields, varieties, machinery and drive around the lovely Lincolnshire countryside. There's also lots of the obligatory leg pulling and banter because i've known James quite a few years and now related to him through a family marriage.
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2 giants in the farming community, theses videos should be in the schools to show how food is produced. Keep doing what you're doing 👌 respect.
😊 Thank you.
The best double act in agriculture - your good self and James, brilliant, thanks Andrew.
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that challenger sounds like its down on power😁
Excellent again Wardy. The sound of the CAT engine has made my morning :)
Sounds great doesn’t it?! 👍👌
Another great video, Andrew…….. I’m not wanting to get too political but I think a lot of people involved in British agriculture should be starting to get very worried about what this labour government is going to mean for agriculture within Great Britain !
It will be interesting if you and others could somehow diplomatically give your views on where we are heading .
With this nonsense of slaughtering huge amounts of livestock , and paying farmers not to farm simply INSANE !!!
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Watch next Tuesdays update, James and I talk about that.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard That’s great, thanks Andrew, I’m actually subscribed so I will be tuning in to see that with interest !
In the meantime, I hope you and your team can keep up the good work !
Jason, This nonsense with farming was actually started by Boris Johnson who was not pro British farming. Labour (who I am not a fan of) have inherited the mess. It will be interesting to see what they do. There was talk from them that is was important to be more self efficient with home produced food. Historically farming has always done better under a Labour government. That was until the Blair/Brown who stuck two fingers up to British farmers. My fear is Starmer is from the same mold as Blair😐😐.
@dominicrobertson5885 I think you may be right.
Cheers Jason. 👍😊
Great update. Nice to see you and PX doing a video!
Well done Andrew, nothing better than a bit of farming banter about soil types. Harvest results, always going to be lower, rain, lack of sunshine the big one. On the back of the years weather harvest probably better than we all thought!! What I don't understand is the current grain prices and your not alone in what has been sold forward. All the best.
There’s enough of it around the world apparently and we’re such a small island our shortfall or oversupply makes no difference. I’m hoping there will be an uplift in the next few months.
Two of the best agricultural TH-camrs together, lot of knowledge there 🤙
Thanks. Lots of banter and leg pulling too! 😂
Great video Andrew, nice to see harvest coming to the end, yields not too bad considering the year we had
Very informative update. Interesting content.🚜
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Great update Andrew , was surprising about the yields of the corn. Looking forward to the video's in the week .
Nice update. Almost 17k subscribers.
Brilliant program thank-you
FM on the cultivator stands for, and this is the technical term.. ( I've done my research thoroughly) fkin massive 😁
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Cracking update Andrew. I saw that clip on px farms the other day and it was pretty funny plus they weighed exactly the same but I always watch your video first 😂😂 that little plot combine always makes me laugh because I wonder how it don’t tip over 😂😂 and I’m bet your glad you’ve finished your combining.
Not half…..apart from the beans
Interesting in using recycled gypsum for heavy land Good that agriculture again is leading the way in recycled products. Considering wet winter and spring yields don’t seem to bad and added bonus for income is selling the straw
Yes, the straw will add some income,
Great video Andrew
Good honest yields.
Bit more reliable than pub yields ! They only kid yourself.
Hi Andrew a great video as ever, I do follow px Farms a few weeks back I guessed that you had connections with px farms.
I am going into SFI on my small farm, what for me is going to help me with the farm and it will pay all my basic running costs on my farm.
This week has been a bad week for my family as my Dads brother suddenly Died, and I even called one of my mums old neighbours to inform her and I was told she had just died her self 😢.
How is your leg now Andrew!
Oh no, very sad. 😢
My leg is holding up, thanks. Had an x ray last week, now waiting for the result.
@WardysWaffleAndrewWard thank you Andrew for your kind words, its good to no your leg is better as well.
Super .Well done.
great update good to see james
Good afternoon Sir, another top one.Good to see your "Uncle", I`ll catch him later.I tend to leave the really serious comment to those in the know, but I do find the information about the different seed varieties, how they are planted and how you treat ,cultivate and generally look after the soil, interesting.I particularly like you showing your different pieces of machinery, what they are for, what they do and how they do it.Yesterday afternon was catch up time(no football) machinery,especially the on you redesigned , your interaction with the school kids was brilliant, as the crow flies I live less than 5 miles from "Wrighty`s (locally called) yard My finger is beginning to ache so I think that`s enough of "Wainwrightswhaffle" for now All that`s left to say, if I may be so bold, is to catch you later my friend.............................................Oh!! nearly forgot,that expance of water in front of your mansion, you refer to it as a pond, pond my foot!, it`s bigger than Skeggy`s boating lake, Bye!
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Speak your questions, that’s what I do answering questions, saves oceans of time! Press the screen bottom right! 😊👍
Question ! How r u?...short enough?
Great to see proper farmers doing a proper job and getting the results.
As a Canadian prairie farmer I am envious of your yields, which this year you consider on the low end of your potential. We have just this evening finished one field of Hard Red spring wheat and it has just scraped the 5t/ha (very good for us) @12% moisture, protein not yet determined but our other wheats so far are in the 13.6 to 14.2 range.
Like you, we only had a portion of our crop sold forward, now delivered, and don’t like the numbers currently being offered forward from here.
Harvest here only approx 1/3 done, 2800acs to go, mostly Canola. Worst harvest of my 25 years in Canada for combine breakdowns despite meticulous preventative maintenance.
Thanks for that, good luck with the rest of harvest.
Good round up Waddy, nice to the trial plot combine. Didn’t realise you were related to the PX farmers.
Not sure who’s worse off for it!!
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Plenty of sulphur in Gypsum that we won't complain about, though.
Another fantastic update Andrew really interesting looking forward to the next update
We run a Simba TL in our potato cultivation armoury. Super tool for breaking clod and mixing soil. Terrible for blackgrass control though, so we don't use it on heavy land. Simba TL= Horsch Terrano in simba yellow
Not seen a Simba TL, SL yes.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard we have an SL too! And a cultipress.
Good old robust kit!
If yields are down due to “less than ideal weather conditions” - surely one would expect prices to be up due to lower supply. Maybe you could spend a minute or two exploring why prices for grain are depressed in a future video. In Birmingham some of the farmers fields I see, they look like they have had a poor harvest.
We operate in a world market and our tons grown (or not as in this year) make such a minor difference it’s not worth bothering about and there is a good supply of grain around the world, hence the low prices.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard OK - understood.
We are less than 1% as the supply and there is a lot of grain maize which governs the energy ,ME in a ration for animals
@@philipsankey988is it right maize is at a 30 year low
@richardmatthews3304 I’ve not heard that but as I don’t and won’t grow it my knowledge isn’t there,
Sheer strength!
The PX guy and yourself both have your farming squared away ,with the two of you talking ,i think for some reason the other chap came across better with you ,than talking in his own vids?
Good vid ,fast-moving ,just right length.
Cheers, that’s why I kept 15 mins of recording back for Tuesday night!
Looks like you could do with a Torano 👏👏👏
I’ve already made the call for a demo!
Really interesting vid again Andrew, some really difficult to explain yield results. Does it change your planting strategy at all.
Up in Aberdeenshire there is a big trend towards very early (early August) wheat drilling which is working very well (11.3 t/ha av on a farm I know well), but their only grass weed is AMG.
Hoping your drilling season goes well for you after the efforts you have put into prep
I was thinking of drilling mid Sept but now it’s so dry we won’t start until we have significant rain. We’ve drilled dry soil before and if it’s 2 or 3 weeks laying there, the germination can be very patchy.
Looks like that rain James had this week did a lot of good?
Thanks Andrew, What a great update. I enjoyed the banter between Michael and James. I did see the weigh in on his video, very funny. Interesting to see the plot combine , great to get an insight into how it works. Listening to your yield figures, will the results help you to decide where and when to drill certain varieties? I know there's a lot of variables, one being rainfall, which you have no control over. However, if spring drilling certain varieties provides good yields would you consider more spring drilling? Also how would that affect the control of black grass. Lastly, what width cultivator would the RX pull in comparison to James's Cat and 12 metre cultivator.
We used to have 70% of spring crops, that really helps with blackgrass control but now we’re on top of it a good winter crop is usually more profitable. We’d manage a 6 or 8 metre easily I think.
Tell James and his cousin stop worrying about their weight as myself and twin brother are 70 in January and are in excess of 160kg each and were under 3.5lb when born
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Another good video Andrew. Was baling the straw worth it as far as income and will you think about doing it again next harvest?
Definitely worth it with us having so many fields not growing a crop. Not sure yet about next harvest, conscious of no organic matter going in the soil.
Great update! What type of livestock does your feed wheat end up going to?
Sheep, cattle, pigs, poultry and anything really
What hp is the Challenger/Terrano compared to the 8RX? That Horsch looks heavy? Looks a chunkier, deeper cultivation… ‘man’s land!’ 😂
Ah! 590/650! 8RX is circa 350hp, could it pull the Horsch tool?
Our RX is the bigger one at 410 hp and boosts to 450 when the engine needs some extra grunt.
Hello Andrew
I've been the forestry industry since the 80's .this time of year there is a lot of brash from hedge coppice and forestry clear fell that will be burnt.
A arable farmer friend of mine made this hedge brash into bio char ,
Has there been any test done on the benefit of bio char ?
Sorry, I’m not sure on that one.
That Oxford seed did very well compared to the rest. What are your plans for it? The rest pretty much of a muchness really, considering all the problems. so fingers crossed prices start to rise soon. Thanks a s always Andrew, and see you on the next.
All the early wheats will be Oxford
If you like the terrano it might be worth asking Ernest Doe about a Lemken Karat on demo now theyve taken over the burdens dealerships
Terrano looked a fantastic tool. The Farmet fantom sold by Brock’s in Essex is a similar tool but a significantly lower price if that’s of any help.
Thanks, we had one here 3 years ago when I organised a cultivation day with a load of different manufacturers. Not sure it’s as heavy as the Terrano but a good machine.
See if you can get a redokop type seed destroyer spreader in its place via insurance. Combine fabs make some thing that destroys seeds. 👌
Weeds seeds? We don’t grow any! 😂
Very few farmers will be on 3.6 t/acre Andrew ,you have done very well .Don't to a vlog on n utilisation will you ,best keep that to ourselves.
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Great video andrew, will your jdohn deere pull a 12m horsch? Be nice if it did.
No, I think 8 or 9m
Great update as always, Andrew. Are you CTF on your farms or are you tempted?
No we’re not and not tempted despite Uncle James telling me we should be!
Excellent video. If you did go for one of James’s machines does that mean a tractor upgrade or just not 12m?
Not 12m, would be a 6 or 8m probably.
Great upload will you publish the trial results ...how deep does that machine till?
Yes, will do. Not sure on max depth.
Jello mr Ward. Instead of trying/ buying an expensive cultivator, what s your view on the claydon system ( straw rake 2-3 times then sowing)?
We had the Claydon drill in our dd trial 2 years ago and it was one of the worst so it’s not for us. It was a wet season though.
Interesting yield data, working on only the drilled area and not combined area could rely sway the best and worst field yields. Difficult yo know how to do it
I’ve done it on the area drilled. The fact we lost patches to flooding is irrelevant in my mind. The seed went in the ground so that should be the area used and yes, it does bring the yield down!
Your yields aren't too disasterous for the season, our winter cereals are c.20% below normal, as is spring barley, oats done better. Selling? Ah🤔....you can't win em all! 🤦
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Hi Andrew. Have you considered doing CTF? I know its not for everyone. You're craniumn yielded better than ours on our wold land. We're gonna try some dawsom next year
I can’t believe that cranium drilled early February out yielded it on the same soil type drilled nearly 4 months earlier! Unbelievable. I forgot to mention the bushel weight. The October drilled cranium was 66 to 70. The February drilled cranium was 78. Work that one out?!!.
no, we’ve never tried CTF.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWardour best wheat was drilled in mid feb after sugar beet, ploughed and combi drilled 10t/ha. Astronomer.
😂 maybe JAMES should’ve taken his wallet out of his pocket?😂😂
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Great video as always. Have you considered going down the CTF route, or doesn't it sit with Beetroot?
No we haven’t and you’re right, difficult with sugar beet.
Having achieved 10t + from a Feb drilled crop of wheat, what lessons?
Disregard 2024 results!
I'm not sure why you have cover crops, I may have missed the explanation but back when Adam was a lad and Eve now't but a rib they used have crop rotation and didn't they lie every third field fallow? Now that is probably not viable commercially now but doesn't the cover crop take the goodness from the soil? Apart from the legumes and we know what thet give or do you need to do it because you have light land? I remember driving through Usselby bends on the A46 (north of Mkt Rasen) and the sandy soil was all over the road.
I’ll explain in Tuesdays update so don’t miss it.😊👍
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Thanks.👍
It's a small world, I went to school with Tom Barnett 😃
😊👍 Great Guy.
Hi Andrew how does the straw baling compare to chopping financially
Nog sure yet until I’ve worked out some numbers.
Hi Andrew
What do you reckon is your break even tonnage per acre?
I’m not sure yet, when I have time I’ll go through things like that and post them.
how much do as a cover crop cost per acre thanks Andrew
Seed is about £40/ha
Did you edit out James eating his Magnum when you met him in the field...? 🤔😏
😂😂 He must of scoffed it before we met!!!