Good to see field work going on after the relentless wet on the lighter land. Barry is a brilliant machine operator. Your treatment from the grain buyers just sums up the treatment we seem to get as farmers, just like dealing with supermarkets or some of the potato packers. It’s always interesting to see how they use quality as a get out. Same potatoes on two successive days. One day can we have extra, the next day a quality issue! Guy Watson of Riverford organic growers is having a serious campaign with over one hundred thousand supporters challenging the supermarkets treatment of growers. Many thanks for all your Waffles.
Thanks for the inclusion Andrew, always good to see you. We went on to a Sabre demo in west Wales on Friday, but having driven through persistent rain today I think the drill will be standing at ease for another few days. Look forward to hearing how the crops come up!
Cracking update again Andrew. All that money knocked off the barley which is rubbish, ask them to send it back and I bet they already used it 😡 those weaving drillls are good bits off kitt aren’t they? Glad to see you got some field work done. Keep the good videos coming 😊
Bad news Andrew, your barley will be getting mixed in with the drier stuff, do you think for one minute they're gonna set on drying it for .7 of a percent? loved watching the drilling video 👍
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard definitely! We had the same with 20 tonnes off potatoes one week sold them to a packer in Shropshire and a week later they said they was full off blight and we can’t use them so fathers said ok send them back and they said no we’ve had to dump them, so there was a bit off a battle for a week or two then they finally paid up.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard I bet when it goes into a ration for dairy or beef mix the price doesn’t get reduced due to moisture levels. Do the dock the Brazilian farmer for moisture in Soya or Black Sea grain or Canada maize non red tractor I’d say not .
Thanks Andrew. Even as a none farmer it's good to see you getting out on the land after the wet old winter. Good to understand how the weather can impact on sale prices a year down the line and months after harvest.
I store about 1000ton of barley and frontier bought it last year at 240 + malting premium at 310. Contract was for all to go in November, a little bit went, Then February came they finally started collecting again all of a sudden the loads started getting rejected for bugs so it was diverted to be cleaned then after that they said the germination was gone so we had it tested by open field and they confirmed the samples we good for malting. Next thing they rejected the loads for ergot yet no other loads had ever been rejected for that. When we got the load report we found a load missing good job I have cameras and can rewind to find the lorry number plates. It seems to be they can just do what they want.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard I am a tenant farmer I am having to borrow extra money to pay the rent this spring because of low grain sale prices ontop of high input cost, I am putting 80 acres into wild bird mix out of my 120 acres of arable it’s about keeping a roof over my head.
Another fantastic update really good to get out and do some landwork. The weaving drill looks a nice bit of kit. Hope the weather keeps settled and you can get all your crops in looking forward to the next update
That's a nice drill, very impressive, we run 2 vaderstad and 2 kuhn /accord combination drills for wetter conditions, but this looks very handy. We are still waiting for it to dry up here in Kent, had another inch on Tuesday and half inch today(Sunday), luckily only got 30ha of spring barley to do, thanks for another interesting video, hope all well up your way, regards Simon
Great video Andrew, that seed went into a perfectly prepared seed bed, great to see after the rain its coming up rally good. I afraid to say not surprised to hear about your troubles with Frontier, they have no scruples when it comes to dealing with there customers, they are not well liked in Scotland, and that's coming from a former employee, just keep your eye on them.
Very interesting to see you trying out the Weaving Sabre Tine drill again. I bought one back in October 2022 based on a number of factors. Allowing contractor to be included in the Government FETF scheme. So getting a £25K grant making the Sabre drill nearly half price. Looking for a drill which can be used direct into stubble or into moved ground. Also a drill that is more flexible and can be used in conditions that would stop a trailed drill with packer wheels. I have to say that my decision to go for the Weaving drill was very much helped by the demo of the 10 drills you organised. Also, the follow up results ranging from crop establishment to the final yield. I have not been disappointed with the choice I made!
Thanks for your message and great to hear our demo helped in your decision, Helping other Farmers is always on of our aims with any trials we do. It’s also great to hear you’re not disappointed with the sabre Tine, I think it’s a great drill.
Good to see some land work on the farm. Really liked the Fendt and Weaver setup. Again I say it, what a great job Barry is doing. Good to see the RX at work, just out of interest watching 1 of Olly's videos with his new Quadtrac, he talks about fuel consumption when working his land. I know you have mentioned in a previous video about your old Quadtrac and fuel consumption compared to the RX. Anyway Andrew, thanks for another great video.
He’s on about 94 litres / hour, that's good for a quad and shows his land is not as much clay as ours. we'd be using 110 litres / hour. thats one of the main reasons we swapped to a 8RX because it uses around 70 litres an hour on the same machine.
Great update Andrew, soil looks in good condition given all the rain, free flow doing a great job as usual , nice job by Barry. Don't forget to put some bait on the drill for the mice!!!!
Great update Andrew , nice to see you getting on with the spring work. Lets hope it stays dry so you can get on with your heavy land work, hopefully you can get somewhere with the barley penalty .
Absolutely cracking drills the weavings Andrew, having used the kv and weaving tine drills, I really do rate the weaving. See what you mean about the pendulum on the sprayer is a bit over reacting. Really smart looking sprayer though. That job would be perfect if I could only convince the wife to leave a newborn grandson behind in Cornwall and move up 😭 great update once again, those charges for grain are always absolutely scandalous
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard yes very hard for you farmers all that work for little reward about time it was sorted also hope you do get a Fendt be good to see it working
Nice to see you taking maximum advantage of the gps by drilling the headlands last Andrew, I asked a farmer in ohio about 3 yrs ago why he was,nt doing the same with his a soybean planter ( he was using gps and complained that he had been rained off mid field , by the time he resumed he was destroying headland seedlings) he replied it could,nt be done, however , last spring he filmed himself mapping boundaries so some clever american must have educated him ... :)
Hello Andrew. Great to see you’ve been cracking on with spring work. It looks like it’s gone in incredibly well too. Like you say, the advantage of having some light land up on the heath. We had two dry days here in Cornwall. Managed to get some bits done in the fields. Wanted to get some fertiliser on the wheat but it was too windy to spread using the spinner. Now it’s back to the heavy rain again. It’s all starting to get a bit desperate down here in the south west. Hopefully there’s a weather window next week? Just touching on the barley you had stolen from you by the feed merchant/ mill. Quite offended they’ll add water to it if it’s going into a feed blend, so with it being just slightly over on moisture I can’t see it will make much difference to them. Just a reason to not pay you what it’s worth? Fingers crossed you manage to get somewhere with that. It all comes back to what the other sectors are doing, I mean if the our milk price went up then the arable price would too, slight signs of milk moving in the right direction, so possibly it’ll have a knock on come this year’s harvest? The weaving drill looks good! We’ve got a kvereland version, it will plant in almost any conditions. Plus you can always run both machines if you wanted to get a lot done in a short space of time, or have the 8RX cultivating and one of your other tractors planting if the weather window was really short. Barry is a master man on the digger. What a great job he’s doing, I can only imagine what the do gooders/ environmentalists would say? 😂 Fingers crossed the weather stays reasonable good for you guys up there. 👍
The trouble you’re having with the wind is the main reason we went to liquid N. Raining here so no more drilling until April apart from the sugar beet on the heath, when the seed arrives.
I hope you got your own nitrogen test on the malting barley, the merchants will reject any crop bought for high price if they can get some cheaper else where.
Hi Andy, brilliant piece of kit that drill. Top driver that Barry looks a really good job done I bet your pleased with the results.? You`ve got some great tacle. How is Henry`s land draining going,? Totally agree with your hopper method. Thanks for the videos. J
Wanna get you Barry in charge of environment agency. Getting the job done. The greens wth the clipboards would argue your harming wildlife but mr mole hasn't let him bother him. They need to realise that farmers create an abundance of food that help the wildlife along.
Makes me so angry that farmers are treated this way when selling crops, produced after all this bad weather, then get beaten down on price. If it's not the supermarkets beating down the price it's something else. It's about time we stopped all these imports, stood on our own two feet and became a self-sufficient island with good quality home-produced food. Rant over. Great video Andrew, many thanks
Great update, I’m no expert but to me the soils are looking beautiful! What’s on the to-do list over the next few weeks? Drilling, drilling and more drilling or other jobs?
Thats heath soil for you, the land at Glebe farm is so different and still too wet to get on, and it’s now raining, ☹️ The wheats are now fertilised with nitrogen and need spraying for weeds but have to wait 5 days after the liquid N because it will scorch, the plant needs to wax up and recover. Drilling is the priority but can’t force it on the clay soils.
Hi Andrew, another good video... have you ever thought about Borage as a spring crop, late drilling date, high margins and guaranteed contract price.... Where I work we have that Weaving drill and have good results.
What mixture of soils across your land, I find it’s great too see everyone’s blogs while I’m laid up healing after an operation, and difference between the drills, one with packers other not, are they the same crop? Or does it depending on land? Very informative,
The 724 in my opinon is the best all rounder you can buy at the moment! But not buying anything if millers are screwing you down! They definitely need exposing! Thats early 90s prices! Absolutely terrible!
Good job you boys aren't on white diesel. We are in Groundworks, costing the job a fortune and having to pass it on to customer. Thats if they can afford the job !!
Covering some serious ground with that drill how long dose it take to do all your drilling when the ground is good to keep at it continuously when conditions are good
It’s a job to say because of all the different crops we grow which need drilling at different times of the year but we do about 4 ha/10 acres per hour.
Hi Andy, just wondering how a 6m drill would work with a 32m sprayer. Would you need to go for a 6.4m drill if you went to purchase one? Thanks for the great update.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWardthank you, as somebody who’s not a farmer I’m fascinated by all the technicalities as well as the innovative engineering by British companies 🙂
Yes, that’s what’s needed, trouble is we’re swapping hoppers round and taking them on and off the forks so having to unplug electrics or hydraulics might be a pain.
Good grief Andrew , I was selling feed barley in the 80s / 90s to my local mill in Northamptonshire , and my imputs then were around 60- 70pounds per tonne , that’s terrible for you ,and unfair . I feel awful for you .😤
Looking in the new drill with all the air / seed pipes from the centre bit it reminded me of something from an Alien movie. Is it coincidence then that they have called it Weaver after Sigourney Weaver and more scary can you believe that the Alien movie is 45 years old
Don’t get me started on claims!! We had a £28/ton deduction on the very last load of wheat out of the store because they allegedly found some ergot despite having found none in any of the previous loads. £13/ton to redirect it a few miles down the road & £15/ton to clean it. That hurt - a lot. And we only found out about the claim two days after the load left the farm.
They bought a store of wheat off us years ago claimed it was feed . I had a mate working at the local mill who processed it all for milling . They got a hot phone call and a reimbursement to us .
I feel that's very naughty re the wheat as you take samples before it. I also feel that you should be honoured the feed price of the day you sold the wheat?
absolute pi55 take on both counts, going to a feed mill,first thing after it's milled would be a trip through the steamer and as for specific wieght, can understand it for going on a boat for export,or in the days of intervention but straight to a mill,a ton is a ton surely? always someone outside of the farm gate ready to dibble a bit out of the job
Remember Andrew dad telling me about grandad selling some malting barley and getting it rejected they brought it back a few days later the buyer rang grandad they were sending it for feed for less money they asked the driver where it was going he said to a malsters grandad went spare also the barly you sold would no doubt go through the mill and not dried bet they didn't lower the price to the customer for high moisture and low bushel waight its a con
Only 1, at £500k can’t afford another. Thats the way farming is now, machinery is so expensive and crop returns so low, we have to do everything with less machinery and drivers work longer hours or double shift the tractor.
Why can't a sample be taken from each load before it leaves the farm and you get paid on result of that sample? Then if moisture or anything else is wrong with it you can rectify it before it leaves the farm.
We do sample every load but no merchant or end destination will ever take farm readings as the one to go by. Despite us having a £5k moisture meter and it has to be calibrated every year.
These claims are getting ridiculous now Andrew. A friend sent a load of feed barley which was allegedly 15.7% he requested a retest, no problem, but that would be a cost of £62! There’s no doubt what the second test would have been.
hi andrew. im 16 next week. my dream is to be a farm owner. is it possible for me to become a first generation farmer with say 600-1000 acres at some point from starting with nothing. do you know anyone who has done this?
Inputs costing more; Outputs generating less - and Buyers playing silly buggers. The only free thing there's more of is rain. Who'd be a Framer? No Farmers. No Food, No Future.
You won't buy much of a drill at £130 A ton. Can you imagine the general public having a cut in there wages. And nothing they can do about it. All your costings with a laptop means nothing in the end. Farming is controlled by the weather.. somethinnk a laptop can't do..
im hacked off for you buddy , when you look what you put into , all the kit, staff , stewardship the list goes on , then you get clobbered like that , unreal , chin up and all that , can only get better
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Good to see field work going on after the relentless wet on the lighter land. Barry is a brilliant machine operator. Your treatment from the grain buyers just sums up the treatment we seem to get as farmers, just like dealing with supermarkets or some of the potato packers. It’s always interesting to see how they use quality as a get out. Same potatoes on two successive days. One day can we have extra, the next day a quality issue! Guy Watson of Riverford organic growers is having a serious campaign with over one hundred thousand supporters challenging the supermarkets treatment of growers. Many thanks for all your Waffles.
Liking yo supermarkets is just what Rhonda said.
Brilliant video Andrew,im really impressed with the way you farm,a lot of pride involved and attention to detail.
Thanks, helps having a good team. 👍😊
Thanks for the inclusion Andrew, always good to see you. We went on to a Sabre demo in west Wales on Friday, but having driven through persistent rain today I think the drill will be standing at ease for another few days. Look forward to hearing how the crops come up!
We’ve had 13mm today so that’s it for drilling until April I think now. Thanks for coming on Thursday at such short notice.
great update barry done great job on the dykes well done barry
Cracking update again Andrew. All that money knocked off the barley which is rubbish, ask them to send it back and I bet they already used it 😡 those weaving drillls are good bits off kitt aren’t they? Glad to see you got some field work done. Keep the good videos coming 😊
Bad news Andrew, your barley will be getting mixed in with the drier stuff, do you think for one minute they're gonna set on drying it for .7 of a percent? loved watching the drilling video 👍
Not a chance, that’s why it’s a con.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard definitely! We had the same with 20 tonnes off potatoes one week sold them to a packer in Shropshire and a week later they said they was full off blight and we can’t use them so fathers said ok send them back and they said no we’ve had to dump them, so there was a bit off a battle for a week or two then they finally paid up.
They’re all at it. Nfu need to get o to this once and for all.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard I bet when it goes into a ration for dairy or beef mix the price doesn’t get reduced due to moisture levels. Do the dock the Brazilian farmer for moisture in Soya or Black Sea grain or Canada maize non red tractor I’d say not .
Thanks Andrew. Even as a none farmer it's good to see you getting out on the land after the wet old winter. Good to understand how the weather can impact on sale prices a year down the line and months after harvest.
Glad to see your moving to the dark with the weaving. Gives a great finish and gives ye more options
That’s the main reason, so we can drill when conditions aren’t ideal.
I store about 1000ton of barley and frontier bought it last year at 240 + malting premium at 310.
Contract was for all to go in November, a little bit went,
Then February came they finally started collecting again all of a sudden the loads started getting rejected for bugs so it was diverted to be cleaned then after that they said the germination was gone so we had it tested by open field and they confirmed the samples we good for malting.
Next thing they rejected the loads for ergot yet no other loads had ever been rejected for that.
When we got the load report we found a load missing good job I have cameras and can rewind to find the lorry number plates.
It seems to be they can just do what they want.
Now they are just paying 140 a ton for somthing they said 310
Horrendous Tom. I’ll text you.
I think I would tell the buyer I am leaving the grain in the shed till the price goes up and putting all the unplanted land into wild bird feed.
@charlesyeo8252 trouble is, that would have to be a 3 yr agreement and you have to put in 50% of this years area in the next 2 years.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard I am a tenant farmer I am having to borrow extra money to pay the rent this spring because of low grain sale prices ontop of high input cost, I am putting 80 acres into wild bird mix out of my 120 acres of arable it’s about keeping a roof over my head.
Another fantastic update really good to get out and do some landwork. The weaving drill looks a nice bit of kit. Hope the weather keeps settled and you can get all your crops in looking forward to the next update
Raining now so will be into April before we get on any heavy land.
That's a nice drill, very impressive, we run 2 vaderstad and 2 kuhn /accord combination drills for wetter conditions, but this looks very handy. We are still waiting for it to dry up here in Kent, had another inch on Tuesday and half inch today(Sunday), luckily only got 30ha of spring barley to do, thanks for another interesting video, hope all well up your way, regards Simon
Raining here so that’s it until Spril for heavy land drilling,
Great video Andrew, that seed went into a perfectly prepared seed bed, great to see after the rain its coming up rally good. I afraid to say not surprised to hear about your troubles with Frontier, they have no scruples when it comes to dealing with there customers, they are not well liked in Scotland, and that's coming from a former employee, just keep your eye on them.
Thank you, I will!
Very interesting to see you trying out the Weaving Sabre Tine drill again. I bought one back in October 2022 based on a number of factors. Allowing contractor to be included in the Government FETF scheme. So getting a £25K grant making the Sabre drill nearly half price. Looking for a drill which can be used direct into stubble or into moved ground. Also a drill that is more flexible and can be used in conditions that would stop a trailed drill with packer wheels. I have to say that my decision to go for the Weaving drill was very much helped by the demo of the 10 drills you organised. Also, the follow up results ranging from crop establishment to the final yield. I have not been disappointed with the choice I made!
Thanks for your message and great to hear our demo helped in your decision, Helping other Farmers is always on of our aims with any trials we do. It’s also great to hear you’re not disappointed with the sabre Tine, I think it’s a great drill.
Good to see some land work on the farm. Really liked the Fendt and Weaver setup. Again I say it, what a great job Barry is doing. Good to see the RX at work, just out of interest watching 1 of Olly's videos with his new Quadtrac, he talks about fuel consumption when working his land. I know you have mentioned in a previous video about your old Quadtrac and fuel consumption compared to the RX. Anyway Andrew, thanks for another great video.
He’s on about 94 litres / hour, that's good for a quad and shows his land is not as much clay as ours. we'd be using 110 litres / hour. thats one of the main reasons we swapped to a 8RX because it uses around 70 litres an hour on the same machine.
Great update Andrew, soil looks in good condition given all the rain, free flow doing a great job as usual , nice job by Barry. Don't forget to put some bait on the drill for the mice!!!!
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Both drills doing a great job Barry has sorted your beck's out
Great update Andrew , nice to see you getting on with the spring work. Lets hope it stays dry so you can get on with your heavy land work, hopefully you can get somewhere with the barley penalty .
Raining now. ☹️☹️
A great video Andrew it good to see you in the Field, I went up the Field this afternoon at it was so wet.
Lots of heavy rain again 😮
Same here
Absolutely cracking drills the weavings Andrew, having used the kv and weaving tine drills, I really do rate the weaving. See what you mean about the pendulum on the sprayer is a bit over reacting. Really smart looking sprayer though. That job would be perfect if I could only convince the wife to leave a newborn grandson behind in Cornwall and move up 😭 great update once again, those charges for grain are always absolutely scandalous
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Great video. Weaving drill very impressive.
Really good video this morning nice to see a Fendt working
They are good tractors, we really should look at one but not with grain prices where they are!
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard yes very hard for you farmers all that work for little reward about time it was sorted also hope you do get a Fendt be good to see it working
yes, this is the kinda farm channel I want to see,like the details with good editing , cheers!
Another fantastic video Andrew always worth watching
Thanks Jim.
Great video Andrew, love to see the drilling started.
Now stopped until April thanks to 13mm rain today.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard it's relentless since last autumn
@Gearoid35 Oct 20th it started.
Nice to see you taking maximum advantage of the gps by drilling the headlands last Andrew, I asked a farmer in ohio about 3 yrs ago why he was,nt doing the same with his a soybean planter ( he was using gps and complained that he had been rained off mid field , by the time he resumed he was destroying headland seedlings) he replied it could,nt be done, however , last spring he filmed himself mapping boundaries so some clever american must have educated him ... :)
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Hello Andrew.
Great to see you’ve been cracking on with spring work. It looks like it’s gone in incredibly well too. Like you say, the advantage of having some light land up on the heath.
We had two dry days here in Cornwall. Managed to get some bits done in the fields. Wanted to get some fertiliser on the wheat but it was too windy to spread using the spinner. Now it’s back to the heavy rain again.
It’s all starting to get a bit desperate down here in the south west. Hopefully there’s a weather window next week?
Just touching on the barley you had stolen from you by the feed merchant/ mill. Quite offended they’ll add water to it if it’s going into a feed blend, so with it being just slightly over on moisture I can’t see it will make much difference to them. Just a reason to not pay you what it’s worth? Fingers crossed you manage to get somewhere with that.
It all comes back to what the other sectors are doing, I mean if the our milk price went up then the arable price would too, slight signs of milk moving in the right direction, so possibly it’ll have a knock on come this year’s harvest?
The weaving drill looks good! We’ve got a kvereland version, it will plant in almost any conditions. Plus you can always run both machines if you wanted to get a lot done in a short space of time, or have the 8RX cultivating and one of your other tractors planting if the weather window was really short.
Barry is a master man on the digger. What a great job he’s doing, I can only imagine what the do gooders/ environmentalists would say? 😂
Fingers crossed the weather stays reasonable good for you guys up there. 👍
The trouble you’re having with the wind is the main reason we went to liquid N. Raining here so no more drilling until April apart from the sugar beet on the heath, when the seed arrives.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard the wheats have gone particularly yellow down here, desperate need for some N
Tomorrow is looking hopeful? 🚜
@irwinmorrow1267 been raining all day here so not much going to happen this week.
I’ve Been running a 6meter sabre tine for 4 seasons great drill
The 4 row version?
Yes 4rows 2020 model just before they changed to plastic hopper
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Great job sowing Andrew, love the way you spend time getting the seedbed right, unlike other TH-cams who just bang it in no matter what.
Nooo, surely not!!!
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard you can see as well as I can Andrew 🤫🤫
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I can’t do with anything not right!
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard 🙏👌👍🏻
Another great farmer working not sitting on his ars living off the state
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Good watching. Nice to see some land work going on
I hope you got your own nitrogen test on the malting barley, the merchants will reject any crop bought for high price if they can get some cheaper else where.
I forgot to say , the barley I was selling in the 80s - 90 s was between £120 - 130 .
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Great seed bed where you were putting it the spring barley.
More rain for us yesterday and last night so still sitting on our hands, very envious !
Sabre tine v's freeflow, interesting to see results.
Hi Andy, brilliant piece of kit that drill. Top driver that Barry looks a really good job done I bet your pleased with the results.? You`ve got some great tacle.
How is Henry`s land draining going,? Totally agree with your hopper method.
Thanks for the videos.
J
Yes, really pleased. Henry still had 1m of water over all his land, will go and look this week.
Hope you got all that you needed to before the rain. We've got a bit more rain this morning and overnight here in East Norfolk
Yes we did. Light land now drilled apart from beet which we don’t have the seed yet.
Hi nice to see you on the land, rain here today,
And here. ☹️😡
Great video Andrew
That’s the only and best way to apply nitrogen , even in a decent wind . Great
Wanna get you Barry in charge of environment agency. Getting the job done. The greens wth the clipboards would argue your harming wildlife but mr mole hasn't let him bother him. They need to realise that farmers create an abundance of food that help the wildlife along.
The EA are too blinkered and listen to the wrong people.
Great video again 👍🏻
Morning good video just always make me anxious watching you guys drilling 😂 as we have really heavy land which is still not dry enough to travel 👍
The rest of ours is heavy, made up 55% clay, 30% silt, 15% sand and far too wet to even look at it.
Makes me so angry that farmers are treated this way when selling crops, produced after all this bad weather, then get beaten down on price.
If it's not the supermarkets beating down the price it's something else.
It's about time we stopped all these imports, stood on our own two feet and became a self-sufficient island with good quality home-produced food.
Rant over.
Great video Andrew, many thanks
Spot on with the rant, you hit the nail on the head, the big merchants are as bad as supermarkets.
24:43 great content again
Great update, I’m no expert but to me the soils are looking beautiful! What’s on the to-do list over the next few weeks? Drilling, drilling and more drilling or other jobs?
Thats heath soil for you, the land at Glebe farm is so different and still too wet to get on, and it’s now raining, ☹️ The wheats are now fertilised with nitrogen and need spraying for weeds but have to wait 5 days after the liquid N because it will scorch, the plant needs to wax up and recover. Drilling is the priority but can’t force it on the clay soils.
Tidy digger work 👌🏻
Hi Andrew, another good video... have you ever thought about Borage as a spring crop, late drilling date, high margins and guaranteed contract price.... Where I work we have that Weaving drill and have good results.
Borage is an interesting one, thanks, but isn’t the harvest quite late? Pleased to hear about the drill.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard harvest aprox 100 days from germination, drill upto early may, so harvest same time as wheat which i guess could be a problem
@gavexplorer not this year looking at the condition of wheat crops, they won’t take long to harvest!
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard yes there is that..!
What mixture of soils across your land, I find it’s great too see everyone’s blogs while I’m laid up healing after an operation, and difference between the drills, one with packers other not, are they the same crop? Or does it depending on land? Very informative,
Look at updates 64,65 and 66. I go into detail on the whole lay out of the farm. Get well soon.
Our lot where I work have 1 of them weaving drills, don’t know anything about it as I’m on the construction side driving the diggers 👍
If I remember correctly my father got £115 per tonne for barley in 1984.
That would be right
And now I costs that much to grow it
The 724 in my opinon is the best all rounder you can buy at the moment! But not buying anything if millers are screwing you down! They definitely need exposing! Thats early 90s prices! Absolutely terrible!
Absolutely, but with inputs costing 5 x more?
Great content again Andrew will you be rolling the Spring Barley in at all?
Doubt it as it’s raining now!
Good job you boys aren't on white diesel. We are in Groundworks, costing the job a fortune and having to pass it on to customer. Thats if they can afford the job !!
That’s the trouble, we can’t pass any increased costs on, we get paid what we are told, we don’t have any say.
Covering some serious ground with that drill how long dose it take to do all your drilling when the ground is good to keep at it continuously when conditions are good
It’s a job to say because of all the different crops we grow which need drilling at different times of the year but we do about 4 ha/10 acres per hour.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard some going that look forward to the next video 👍👍👍
Hi Andy, just wondering how a 6m drill would work with a 32m sprayer. Would you need to go for a 6.4m drill if you went to purchase one? Thanks for the great update.
That’s exactly it and Weaving would build one for us. 😊👍
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWardthank you, as somebody who’s not a farmer I’m fascinated by all the technicalities as well as the innovative engineering by British companies 🙂
Tech in farming is unreal now but we still have issues where one system won’t talk to another and it drives us all crazy!
Almost 15k subscribers!
Need a 1 in front!!
may I ask how much is the travel speed of the John Deere with the traks?
About 12k/hr
Nice to see suffolk coulters making a come back lol
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Remote control 12v actuator or hydraulic cylinder would mean you wouldn’t need to be any where near the hopper to empty it. Win win.
Yes, that’s what’s needed, trouble is we’re swapping hoppers round and taking them on and off the forks so having to unplug electrics or hydraulics might be a pain.
That heap of black square bales round the beet pad will be worth more than the beet this year.
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50% grant must make that drill look sensible money. Uve got till mid April to decide i guess
Exactly, I think I’ve already decided!
Good grief Andrew , I was selling feed barley in the 80s / 90s to my local mill in Northamptonshire , and my imputs then were around 60- 70pounds per tonne , that’s terrible for you ,and unfair . I feel awful for you .😤
That’s the problem with the big merchants. I don’t know how some of their directors sleep at night. 😡
I always have said it`s better to set the headlands last and not 1st. But that's just me.
Looking in the new drill with all the air / seed pipes from the centre bit it reminded me of something from an Alien movie. Is it coincidence then that they have called it Weaver after Sigourney Weaver and more scary can you believe that the Alien movie is 45 years old
😂😂 It’s Weaving!
always been strange how weaving dont let you drive the drill when its a demo, although we got a gd 4000t and it works well in all conditions
I didn’t want us to drive it tbh, we were all busy doing something else.
What is different between ploughing and soloing no need reply say on next video
Can you test your sample of barley that was taken from the lorry before it left you
We do, every load. But it makes no difference, they won’t use our results, only the end destination ones.
Isnt it a pain in the butt to have the distribution tower in the tank? You have to dig it out, if it blocks, dont you?
Great vid
Not sure, never had a drill like this.
Don’t get me started on claims!! We had a £28/ton deduction on the very last load of wheat out of the store because they allegedly found some ergot despite having found none in any of the previous loads. £13/ton to redirect it a few miles down the road & £15/ton to clean it. That hurt - a lot. And we only found out about the claim two days after the load left the farm.
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Frontier Grain locally known as the Great Grain Robbers .
😂😂 It’s wrong, they should not be allowed to do all this.
They bought a store of wheat off us years ago claimed it was feed . I had a mate working at the local mill who processed it all for milling . They got a hot phone call and a reimbursement to us .
I’ve heard stories like that before.
I feel that's very naughty re the wheat as you take samples before it.
I also feel that you should be honoured the feed price of the day you sold the wheat?
Exactly, I am going to fight it though.
absolute pi55 take on both counts, going to a feed mill,first thing after it's milled would be a trip through the steamer and as for specific wieght, can understand it for going on a boat for export,or in the days of intervention but straight to a mill,a ton is a ton surely? always someone outside of the farm gate ready to dibble a bit out of the job
It’s a real joke. 😡😡
Remember Andrew dad telling me about grandad selling some malting barley and getting it rejected they brought it back a few days later the buyer rang grandad they were sending it for feed for less money they asked the driver where it was going he said to a malsters grandad went spare also the barly you sold would no doubt go through the mill and not dried bet they didn't lower the price to the customer for high moisture and low bushel waight its a con
Total con. 😡😡
Somethinnk I want to know have you two mx John deeres ?
Because. Your wouldn't cope in a busy season with one .
Only 1, at £500k can’t afford another. Thats the way farming is now, machinery is so expensive and crop returns so low, we have to do everything with less machinery and drivers work longer hours or double shift the tractor.
any chance of seeing a photo of you, shovelling up that mud left on road by the drill? From A Concerned Cyclist
No chance of seeing anyone shovel it up because Tom came back with the brush on the Manitou.
From a caring, law abiding farmer
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Any chance of seeing photos of cyclists wearing lights and abiding by the rules of the road? From a concerned hgv driver....
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Is the Ukraine situation affecting price levels or volatility ?
Not really sure tbh.
Why can't a sample be taken from each load before it leaves the farm and you get paid on result of that sample? Then if moisture or anything else is wrong with it you can rectify it before it leaves the farm.
We do sample every load but no merchant or end destination will ever take farm readings as the one to go by. Despite us having a £5k moisture meter and it has to be calibrated every year.
fight those deductions ,
I’m going to! 👍
I bet the mark-up they make on the seed will be greater than yours- the worlds gone mad, fairness in life no longer exists
Too right.
I'll bet you a pound to a penny Andrew that they never put your barley through a drier but still knocked £6 pound a ton of.
Exactly, I bet you as well.
Who will take over the farm when you retire Andrew ??
Succession is on the list to sort v soon.
Tom and Reuben ?
@roblonsdale8927 They are both farmers sons so have their own farms to go home to at some point.
Will we be getting Ward's wetirement Waffle ??😂😂
@Shaunalexander.99 😂😂
These claims are getting ridiculous now Andrew. A friend sent a load of feed barley which was allegedly 15.7% he requested a retest, no problem, but that would be a cost of £62! There’s no doubt what the second test would have been.
Something needs to be done. They are as crooked as supermarkets.
I used to farm and delivered all our grain directly to the docks/mills. I’ve got tales that would make your hair curl!
I can imagine! I’ve heard some from drivers who come to us,
hi andrew. im 16 next week. my dream is to be a farm owner. is it possible for me to become a first generation farmer with say 600-1000 acres at some point from starting with nothing. do you know anyone who has done this?
I don’t know any one who’s done this but doesn’t mean it can’t be done. Great vision and aspirations. 👌😊👏👏👏👏👏
Inputs costing more; Outputs generating less - and Buyers playing silly buggers. The only free thing there's more of is rain. Who'd be a Framer? No Farmers. No Food, No Future.
I know, not good. ☹️
The thumbs down is not for you it's this bloody government and the indersty 😢
That’s for clearing that up!!
76 kg / ha
Scandalous claim on the barley.
Totally. 😡😡
I share your pain re down graded malting barley - a man could swear!!
Just not right is it? 😡😡
Something needs to be done.
You won't buy much of a drill at
£130 A ton. Can you imagine the general public having a cut in there wages. And nothing they can do about it.
All your costings with a laptop means nothing in the end. Farming is controlled by the weather.. somethinnk a laptop can't do..
Totally agree.
ASDA'S,blowing wardy's money everyday 🤬💩
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im hacked off for you buddy , when you look what you put into , all the kit, staff , stewardship the list goes on , then you get clobbered like that , unreal , chin up and all that , can only get better
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