I hope people watching this realise how important is the sight of a harvest being brought in. A good harvest used to mean no hunger during the winter. Now with imported food we, in the West who can buy from abroad, have lost contact with how important it is to have a good harvest.
Hi Harry, have only recently come across your farm site and its great to get an insight as to what you and other farmers grow " Why and How " its done and the problems you have to overcome, both you and Clarkson are doing a great job of showing the reality of farming..... Brilliant keep up the coverage 👍
Farmer in Australia here….i used to give my friends a hand at harvest time around East Lothian Scotland, before I emigrated. We had a couple of combines and used to do several farms round our area. Long days and night , all fun and very satisfying…the hardest thing for us was the really narrow gates and steep hills. Great fun and great camaraderie, miss it loads. Cheers, and good luck!
A sense of calm? He's just harvested wheat and now he's becoming a wild flower farmer. I used to have more flowers in the garden but I focus on vegetables now. Where's my farming subsidy? Funny world isn't it.
Harry they are destroying your farming, with constant geoengineering, so your usiness will collapse and they can steal your farm for pennies on the dollar!
I realised when I saw this video that I am starting to measure my life by Harry's harvesting cycles! This must be the third I have watched; where has the time gone!
Harry, I love listening to you explain what and why. You're very informative about the m/c's and especially about what you expect from the harvest. Very interesting and thanks for taking the time to get the video out.
Love that Grenadier! Looks like a proper 4x4. I am in the US and while our gov does some really stupid things related to agriculture, I am surprised with some of the UK policies/programs encouraging farmers to not produce crops. I understand you taking advantage of them as you are a business at the end of the day.
Most of the rules are about not destroying the growing capacity of the land, intensive farming has taken its toll and without chucking lots of chemicals on the land crops don’t grow well.
As a part-time occasional helper on a farm in WA, I can tell you these machines do catch alight and start fires in fields regularly here. Harvesting is often in daily temperatures of 40c+ and a bit of wire or a stone creates a spark that ignites the dry trash behind the machine. Windy hot days sees total harvest bans imposed by local government as the risk becomes too great. Good to see harvest underway Harry and Charlie!
Wow, it’s amazing to see Harvest 2024 kick off so strongly! Combining over 120 acres of winter wheat in just 3 days is an impressive achievement. This clearly demonstrates the thorough preparation and relentless effort of the team, as well as their excellent management and coordination. It’s evident that hard work and dedication have paid off. I’m really looking forward to seeing what’s next in this harvest season!
I LOVE this!!!! My grandparents used to live absolutely bang opposite a large field in Hertfordshire, and it always felt as though harvest ‘happened’ around my birthday (early August). Getting to see the ‘combine action’ up close was SUCH a thrill to me as a young boy… And the sun was always shining 😊 ☀️
As a city person, I really appreciate the opportunity to see what's happening and I want to thank you and all the British farming community for your hard work!
Both are independently wealthy outside of farming and thus aren't like a lot of farmers that don't have other income streams to fall back on. Those latter are the ones that are quitting or killing themselves... or sell to the big boys. Or maybe all the other farmers get given free vehicles? I dunno.
Agree. But if it brings attention and awareness to farming and food production then it’s a good thing. However, Like you say don’t get caught up in the romance of what you see on the telly. Most farmers barely break even and are chronically stressed financially and emotionally.
Good job Harry, glad the yield is better than you suspected. Coming from a farming heritage (though not one myself) I fully appreciate the 'balls out' to bring in the crop at the perfect moment, and the exhausting work that entails. I also smile at the stories of the townies who have bought a place in the country then complain they can't sleep for the harvesting late into the night. Personally I find it a very restful sound. 👍
I love your videos, as we made a point of teaching our kids that vegetables don't grow in bags in the supermarket, but are a result of hard working. Thanks for doing the effort making and sharing them with us.
Thank you for explaining the drying process. They are harvesting the wheat field at the bottom of my garden right now. It’s 7pm. It’s the same every year into the night I had not even considered the drying process.
@VanderlyndenJengold my father delivered coal, 50kg bags carried by hand, hard physical work. I was 15 going on 16 when I started, and that was the hardest job I ever had. My mother ran a bar in Liverpool city centre, I worked there too. Best days of my working life 😉
Farmers around me in Ayrshire Scotland would go mad during harvest getting as much done as possible, either barley or silage. They were contractors too so worked on many different farms. It was all go, working well into dark, and up again to repeat early next day.
Really liking that version of the Grenadier, hopefully we'll get a review of it at some point! Here on the farm in North Yorks, the Wheat will be harvested in the next day or so, there are also a few patches that were badly flooded earlier on in the year that seems to be fairly typical across the UK! Cheers guys!
I did mine at 16 on a Ford 4600. Took all of 5 minutes . Had to go up a hill , turn around (where he couldnt see me , independent brake job:D ) and back down again. I guess the examiner just had other things to do that day !!
Another video that is a joy to watch…simple farming, friendship and understanding, full of information and just so pleased that the harvest might not be too bad this year despite the dreadful months of rain and mud. Well done Harry…thank you again.🙂🙂🙂🙂
It's been exceptionally busy out here in rural Lincolnshire with tractors everywhere. I love to see them as i've had a tractor 'thing' since I was a baby and 'Tractor' was the first word I spoke. I am now 53 years old and get so much enjoyment from seeing them.
Had a run out into the sticks on the bike last Saturday evening, dry, fine and warm and actually stopped for a while and watched a couple of combines hard at work, with trailers in attendance. We all like a bit of nice weather to get out and do things but farmers must be especially appreciative when Mother Nature is actually on their side, if only for a short while!😀👍 With weather becoming more unpredictable and extreme it just makes sense to look at alternatives for land that floods out easily.
A year like this is when it pays to have your own combine and pick the optimum time. I was down in Toddington at the foot of the Cotswolds. There was somebody combining at 8 am on the Saturday the 10th! I was thinking that is going to have to go in the dryer. But I guess if you are dependent on contractor and with all the harvest merging together into this narrow window, you need to combine when they can.
Brilliant ! Better than the "Archers" I know MORE about farming than I EVER knew, or thought that I wanted to know ! It"s good to know all about the Gov. Regs. and why we're losing SO MUCH land ! I still DON'T understand fully why we have to stop farming and buy stuff from abroad ? Seems so Crazy ! I hope the Cows are alright for this coming year ! Stay dry ! Stu xx
Theres something therapeutic about watching videos like this; and also an utter respect as to what goes on into farming like this. I have relatives that are dairy farmers here in Aus; and the sheer workload that goes into farming is sometimes mind blowing. It is an absolute craft and a lifelong commitment. Keep these videos going Harry!
15:00 That's a nice feature. I noticed on my Disco 3 and 2010 Range Rover you can stop the seatbelt warning sound by turning on the ignition (not the engine) and plugging/unplugging the drivers seatbelt around 8 times in under a minute. You still get a warning light on the dash, but no irritating sounds.
Fascinating to watch this. My utter respect to you Charlie and the team. Farmers are hard working individuals and as you say are beholden to the weather..... Love the video and HG. Regards from Portsmouth UK.
Coming from a dairy background it is full on 365 days of the year. Silage, Hay and straw just add to that. Even Winter with cows in, Cleaning out and feeding increase the load. No farming is easy.
Good on ya Harry and Charlie determined to get the harvest done.glad things turned around for you and many farmers across the country with this better weather lasting great video as always
The new ineos looks very at home in that environment, so hope it does prevail as a brand 👍 when i used to farm it was defenders and pickups everywhere.
Very enjoyable and informative as always. When driving next to the combine you should have a steady pace and distance from the combine. The combine will fill up the wagon with varying its speed. During season 2025 - 2026 you will have the joy of an abundance of weeds.
Love the insight into the farming industry that these videos provide. Although I understand why you have signed up to what you have, I do find it ludicrous that a government should be incentivizing farmers against producing food.
The old saying of 'make hay while the sun shines' really applies here, especially as we've had far too much rain this year! Looks a decent harvest so far, a lot more preparation work than many people would ever realise if it wasn't for videos like this, especially with keeping the combine in working condition all the time.
Here in Czech Republic, it's been 30-33C and sunny for most of the country for days on end. An early Spring, then April frosts, wet May/ June. But the harvest began during the 25th week (a week earlier vs 2023 ) for "Winter Wheat" ( 62% of the cereal acreage). The Ministry for Agriculture will do an update in the coming days with yield/ hectare by cereal crop type and rape seed.
That button on the Grenadier is a great idea and I think it also looks great as a pickup. Hopefully the price you receive for your crop will make a terrible starting year bearable or perhaps even enjoyable 🏴👍🏻
My landlord, a farmer says his yields this year will be about a third of normal. They are really struggling what with fuel prices going up. He's also taking land out of production for the wild bird food scheme. We live in interesting times.
Harry, it would help if you definitely had a better noise-canceling mic, is getting really difficult to hear your voice clearly when you're in a vehicle, especially the noisy ones. Great video as usual
I’m sure Charlie already does it, but we also blow out the radiator cores and engine bay with an air-line every single day too, as the leaf blower never seems to give a direct enough blast to keep those crucial bits dust-free! So far the winter barley and OSR have been poor yields for us up north. Yet to start the wheat but it doesn’t look great either
I really enjoy Harry’s Garage videos, I’ve always been aware of the farm videos but never watched them, I do still wonder if like Clarkson the reason for the purchase of the farm land/ farm is to avoid the inheritance tax which is not charged on agricultural land due to heritage laws/ tax laws
Great stuff. Why do we not produce more of our own food? The government prefers to import? Just like oil…..it seems indigenous oil and food are BAD - but for some unfathomable reason imported oil and food is good?!?!?!? Insanity.
Britain has not been self sufficient for centuries. Farmers like Harry prefer the safety of management schemes that pay you to do nothing to your farm rather than risking good or bad years, like the year Harry didn't break even. Govt is part of import strategy but the reality is that farms elsewhere in the world charge less for their grain as it is lower quality and less costly to farm like any modern commodity.
@@dreamcrusher112 We used to be 75% self sufficient in the 1960s. But now we are about 50% self sufficient. Farmers are a strategic asset. If we are totally in the hands of other countries and war occurs we will starve….just as we nearly did in WW2 due to U-Boats. Then there is the benefit to the wider community of having areas of beauty for holidays and recreation.
@@dreamcrusher112 It’s a very short sighted strategy much favoured by the bean counters. Looking only at the direct price of a commodity. It fails to take into account the social cost and the cost to the wider community. Fewer rural jobs, agricultural suppliers, agricultural engineers, agri-chemical/fertiliser producers and this can then be extended throughout a community and all the multiple trades that service that community. Look at the destruction of communities involved in the steel industry, mining and fishing. To know the cost of everything and the value of nothing!
I'm exceedingly poor and for the past decade or so I've grown 90% of my own food. Yorkshire-based, tiny budget, minuscule [20'] garden, 4 rescue hens, various fruit and veg crops. Whatever nonsense the government gets up to in terms of starving Britain back to Roman times, I'll continue to strive for independence. It may not be 'The Good Life', but it's MY bloody life, and it's good to be in control. Well, sort of in control...
Brilliant video Harry as always, just shows the work our farmers have to do. Unfortunately the wierdos would rather us import everthing we need to eat and we grow nettles and docks.
@@sianwarwick633 Sian, I understand why any sensible farmer would do what Harry has decided to do. But taking good land out of production is madness. I think anyone who believes it is has a very short memory. I agree that, in my life, insect life has changed, there are virtually no insects on car windows and headlights the way there were. I know I am deaf but I remember lying in grass and the insect noise was tremendous. Not now. Perhaps the husbandry should change. Farming is too produce food, so unless people eat less or there are less people it will have too be imported , presuming that this is possible.
@@andrewmellon5072 Russia, Ukraine, and US produce so much wheat that in US one hr wages for the yearly consumption of one person. Six cents of the 1 lb bread loaf goes to the farmer.
I hope people watching this realise how important is the sight of a harvest being brought in. A good harvest used to mean no hunger during the winter. Now with imported food we, in the West who can buy from abroad, have lost contact with how important it is to have a good harvest.
The real countryfile. Well done Charlie and Harry. Excellent job.
I'm sure you already know there is a growing TH-cam channel of the same name @therealcountryfile - worth a look every fortnight Sundays at 4pm
Hi Harry, have only recently come across your farm site and its great to get an insight as to what you and other farmers grow " Why and How " its done and the problems you have to overcome, both you and Clarkson are doing a great job of showing the reality of farming..... Brilliant keep up the coverage 👍
Farmer in Australia here….i used to give my friends a hand at harvest time around East Lothian Scotland, before I emigrated. We had a couple of combines and used to do several farms round our area. Long days and night , all fun and very satisfying…the hardest thing for us was the really narrow gates and steep hills. Great fun and great camaraderie, miss it loads. Cheers, and good luck!
Being a country boy turned cityman these videos brings me such joy & a definite sense of calm 😊
A sense of calm? He's just harvested wheat and now he's becoming a wild flower farmer.
I used to have more flowers in the garden but I focus on vegetables now. Where's my farming subsidy? Funny world isn't it.
@@luke8329 lmao way to hijack someone's feel-good comment
@@luke8329 are you wanting to be some kind of socalist? what hand out do you need?
Harry they are destroying your farming, with constant geoengineering, so your usiness will collapse and they can steal your farm for pennies on the dollar!
@@marcob1729if you don’t see the absurdity in what Harry is being forced* to do, I can’t help you.
I realised when I saw this video that I am starting to measure my life by Harry's harvesting cycles! This must be the third I have watched; where has the time gone!
I was just thinking the same .....😮
Harry, I love listening to you explain what and why. You're very informative about the m/c's and especially about what you expect from the harvest. Very interesting and thanks for taking the time to get the video out.
On another tack Harry, I am so pleased for you that the harvest has gone well. All our farmers deserve it!
I enjoy your videos from my farm in eastern South Dakota, USA
Hi there. I'm guessing you grow corn, soy beans, hay and wheat?
Love that Grenadier! Looks like a proper 4x4. I am in the US and while our gov does some really stupid things related to agriculture, I am surprised with some of the UK policies/programs encouraging farmers to not produce crops. I understand you taking advantage of them as you are a business at the end of the day.
Harry wasn't too keen on it when he tested it, but maybe they've fixed some stuff to this model.
Most of the rules are about not destroying the growing capacity of the land, intensive farming has taken its toll and without chucking lots of chemicals on the land crops don’t grow well.
As a part-time occasional helper on a farm in WA, I can tell you these machines do catch alight and start fires in fields regularly here. Harvesting is often in daily temperatures of 40c+ and a bit of wire or a stone creates a spark that ignites the dry trash behind the machine. Windy hot days sees total harvest bans imposed by local government as the risk becomes too great. Good to see harvest underway Harry and Charlie!
Wow, it’s amazing to see Harvest 2024 kick off so strongly! Combining over 120 acres of winter wheat in just 3 days is an impressive achievement. This clearly demonstrates the thorough preparation and relentless effort of the team, as well as their excellent management and coordination. It’s evident that hard work and dedication have paid off. I’m really looking forward to seeing what’s next in this harvest season!
I LOVE this!!!! My grandparents used to live absolutely bang opposite a large field in Hertfordshire, and it always felt as though harvest ‘happened’ around my birthday (early August). Getting to see the ‘combine action’ up close was SUCH a thrill to me as a young boy… And the sun was always shining 😊 ☀️
You have such a great connection with the land.
I agree with Keith’s comment - not enough land produces food for humans.
It's great to have insiders insight into the day to day things on a farm. Most people wont have any idea.
Fields opposite us were done on Monday, magical to watch the headlights from the big Claas combine working through the night... Such amazing machines
Highlight of the year watching the Harry’s Farm team harvesting all your hard work.
Really enjoy your farm videos. Saw a poor fellow with two fire engines at his combine today in the fens. Let’s hope he doesn’t get hit too hard
As a city person, I really appreciate the opportunity to see what's happening and I want to thank you and all the British farming community for your hard work!
Love your videos. Between you and Clarkson it’s great to see how farming actually operates. 😀
Both are independently wealthy outside of farming and thus aren't like a lot of farmers that don't have other income streams to fall back on. Those latter are the ones that are quitting or killing themselves... or sell to the big boys.
Or maybe all the other farmers get given free vehicles? I dunno.
Agree. But if it brings attention and awareness to farming and food production then it’s a good thing. However, Like you say don’t get caught up in the romance of what you see on the telly. Most farmers barely break even and are chronically stressed financially and emotionally.
Good job Harry, glad the yield is better than you suspected. Coming from a farming heritage (though not one myself) I fully appreciate the 'balls out' to bring in the crop at the perfect moment, and the exhausting work that entails. I also smile at the stories of the townies who have bought a place in the country then complain they can't sleep for the harvesting late into the night. Personally I find it a very restful sound. 👍
I love your videos, as we made a point of teaching our kids that vegetables don't grow in bags in the supermarket, but are a result of hard working.
Thanks for doing the effort making and sharing them with us.
The drone shot with the sunset was awesome!
Thank you for explaining the drying process. They are harvesting the wheat field at the bottom of my garden right now. It’s 7pm. It’s the same every year into the night I had not even considered the drying process.
The drying adds considerably to the cost.
Another great video, thanks Harry and Charlie for spoiling and educating us.
Love watching Harry and Charlie working together. It reminds me of when I worked for my parents back in the day. Another great video 👏👏👏
It was great being young wasan't it?
@VanderlyndenJengold my father delivered coal, 50kg bags carried by hand, hard physical work. I was 15 going on 16 when I started, and that was the hardest job I ever had. My mother ran a bar in Liverpool city centre, I worked there too. Best days of my working life 😉
Farmers around me in Ayrshire Scotland would go mad during harvest getting as much done as possible, either barley or silage. They were contractors too so worked on many different farms. It was all go, working well into dark, and up again to repeat early next day.
Really liking that version of the Grenadier, hopefully we'll get a review of it at some point! Here on the farm in North Yorks, the Wheat will be harvested in the next day or so, there are also a few patches that were badly flooded earlier on in the year that seems to be fairly typical across the UK! Cheers guys!
I passed my tractor test on a massey 165 multi power. Thought that was a big tractor. Love to drive one of these monsters. Cheers, Harry, great video.
I did mine at 16 on a Ford 4600. Took all of 5 minutes . Had to go up a hill , turn around (where he couldnt see me , independent brake job:D ) and back down again. I guess the examiner just had other things to do that day !!
@PHILCHUDS yep, did mine at sixteen, and the test was very much as you described. Cheers.
That’s some serious money for wild bird feed per acre.
Great video as always. Hi from ireland.
At least the birds won't go hungry - not sure about the rest of us though.
Nice to see the combine harvester out working again.
IT is a beast
Another video that is a joy to watch…simple farming, friendship and understanding, full of information and just so pleased that the harvest might not be too bad this year despite the dreadful months of rain and mud. Well done Harry…thank you again.🙂🙂🙂🙂
It's been exceptionally busy out here in rural Lincolnshire with tractors everywhere. I love to see them as i've had a tractor 'thing' since I was a baby and 'Tractor' was the first word I spoke. I am now 53 years old and get so much enjoyment from seeing them.
Have you seen any of my farm updates from Lincs?
Harvest starting is always a great time. Hope weather stays on your side.
I love to learn this as I think so often we forget or dont even have an awareness or appreciation. Thanks Charlie and Harry.
Had a run out into the sticks on the bike last Saturday evening, dry, fine and warm and actually stopped for a while and watched a couple of combines hard at work, with trailers in attendance.
We all like a bit of nice weather to get out and do things but farmers must be especially appreciative when Mother Nature is actually on their side, if only for a short while!😀👍
With weather becoming more unpredictable and extreme it just makes sense to look at alternatives for land that floods out easily.
Charlie is a credit to you. Top lad.
Great insight as usual 😊
Favourite channel on any platform! Keep the education coming
As a boy I was in the back of a New Holland sewing bags of grain!
An old bagger. That wasn’t yesterday 😆
A year like this is when it pays to have your own combine and pick the optimum time. I was down in Toddington at the foot of the Cotswolds. There was somebody combining at 8 am on the Saturday the 10th! I was thinking that is going to have to go in the dryer. But I guess if you are dependent on contractor and with all the harvest merging together into this narrow window, you need to combine when they can.
Brilliant ! Better than the "Archers"
I know MORE about farming than I EVER knew, or thought that I wanted to know !
It"s good to know all about the Gov. Regs. and why we're losing SO MUCH land !
I still DON'T understand fully why we have to stop farming and buy stuff from abroad ?
Seems so Crazy !
I hope the Cows are alright for this coming year !
Stay dry !
Stu xx
Theres something therapeutic about watching videos like this; and also an utter respect as to what goes on into farming like this. I have relatives that are dairy farmers here in Aus; and the sheer workload that goes into farming is sometimes mind blowing. It is an absolute craft and a lifelong commitment. Keep these videos going Harry!
Thanks for great video Harry,love them keep em coming.👍👍
Loving the content now on the labour of love that farmers go through, raise a toast when you eat your toast…
15:00 That's a nice feature. I noticed on my Disco 3 and 2010 Range Rover you can stop the seatbelt warning sound by turning on the ignition (not the engine) and plugging/unplugging the drivers seatbelt around 8 times in under a minute. You still get a warning light on the dash, but no irritating sounds.
Fascinating to watch this. My utter respect to you Charlie and the team. Farmers are hard working individuals and as you say are beholden to the weather..... Love the video and HG. Regards from Portsmouth UK.
Watching this whilst watching my locals out in the fields in Cornwall doing the same thing, double harvest!
Coming from a dairy background it is full on 365 days of the year. Silage, Hay and straw just add to that. Even Winter with cows in, Cleaning out and feeding increase the load. No farming is easy.
Reality of harvest shown in this excellent video.
Love this..where's Stanley? Big hug to Patricia.
Good on ya Harry and Charlie determined to get the harvest done.glad things turned around for you and many farmers across the country with this better weather lasting great video as always
I love the buzz and thrum of the combines around me this time of year notheringbsays high summer quite like it 😊
Beautiful to see the corn coming in
Great update Harry, always look forward to seeing the combine’s working, hope the rest goes as well. 😊
Thanks for another interesting video Harry.
Excellent video. I love seeing combines going out in the fields
love the harvesting footage - best of luck Harry!
Thanks for the detailed report on your harvest, and the growing season. Will look forward to the next days.
Nice to see you kept the case they used to make them up in Doncaster just down the road from us
Hooooray cool Harry very inspiring 🌿🌿🚜🌻
I always look forward to the Harry's farm harvest updates!!
Thanks for the video. Great to see the harvest under way. Very best wishes. Peter
Good to see Charlie on his Combine.
Thanks for the video. 😊
The new ineos looks very at home in that environment, so hope it does prevail as a brand 👍 when i used to farm it was defenders and pickups everywhere.
Another very interesting video Harry. Great job Thanks from all us non-farmers. Cheers Bob
Charlie's pretty funny, such a character with his Kabala bracelets and pinkie ring. 😂
Very enjoyable and informative as always. When driving next to the combine you should have a steady pace and distance from the combine. The combine will fill up the wagon with varying its speed. During season 2025 - 2026 you will have the joy of an abundance of weeds.
Love the insight into the farming industry that these videos provide. Although I understand why you have signed up to what you have, I do find it ludicrous that a government should be incentivizing farmers against producing food.
Seems a combine has a similar inspection routine as a locomotive both steam or diesel, prior to putting it to work.
Great to see you are getting a good yield.
Been waiting for harvest and you presented and demonstrated it perfectly. Thank you
The old saying of 'make hay while the sun shines' really applies here, especially as we've had far too much rain this year!
Looks a decent harvest so far, a lot more preparation work than many people would ever realise if it wasn't for videos like this, especially with keeping the combine in working condition all the time.
Here in Czech Republic, it's been 30-33C and sunny for most of the country for days on end. An early Spring, then April frosts, wet May/ June. But the harvest began during the 25th week (a week earlier vs 2023 ) for "Winter Wheat" ( 62% of the cereal acreage). The Ministry for Agriculture will do an update in the coming days with yield/ hectare by cereal crop type and rape seed.
Keep up the good work Harry that was very interesting video 🏴
Great video Harry, I hope you get the yeld, to make it worth while.
Theses videos are so entertaining and informative, thanks Harry.
That button on the Grenadier is a great idea and I think it also looks great as a pickup. Hopefully the price you receive for your crop will make a terrible starting year bearable or perhaps even enjoyable 🏴👍🏻
why wouldn't you just do up the seatbelt and have it behind you when you drive the short distances on the farm?
@@ianmontgomery7534 parking sensors are probably the most annoying thing about these modern cars, so I'd think it's more about that?
@@ianmontgomery7534it also affects parking sensors & uses a different map for traction & throttle control
@@ianmontgomery7534 because it is bloody uncomfortable sitting with the buckle sticking into your bum 🏴👍🏻
@@ewanstewart8011 you can tuck into the join between the seat and the squab on a lot of vehicles.
Great content; so much interesting detail about real farming. Thank you.
Excellent stuff Harry. Really informative & best of luck.
I'm so fearful of next year's harvest... I've put more food productive beds in the garden!
Don't worry the massive government backed corporations have lots of genetically modified food for you to eat
Agree.
Cracking video once again. Thanks Harry.
It's seems crazy that farms are being taken out of production when there are shortages.
Planned shortages. Paid to NOT produce food is inexcusable.
But if a fallow year means more productive future years, plus less fertiliser and diesel? The environment isn’t an endless resource.
You only have to look at monocropping corn in the USA, soil degradation, increased nutirent input increased bug preventions.
@@carlos777uk maximising short term yields is clearly unsustainable
Great.. whats next.... CROP ROTATIONS???? When will this END!!
My landlord, a farmer says his yields this year will be about a third of normal. They are really struggling what with fuel prices going up. He's also taking land out of production for the wild bird food scheme. We live in interesting times.
Government want to control everything, bad times are coming.
Nice one Harry that's the great British weather for you.
Another excellent video
Nice work on the video sir.. stay safe 🏴
Thanks Harry 👍
Harry, it would help if you definitely had a better noise-canceling mic, is getting really difficult to hear your voice clearly when you're in a vehicle, especially the noisy ones.
Great video as usual
Harry's a fine fellow
I’m sure Charlie already does it, but we also blow out the radiator cores and engine bay with an air-line every single day too, as the leaf blower never seems to give a direct enough blast to keep those crucial bits dust-free!
So far the winter barley and OSR have been poor yields for us up north. Yet to start the wheat but it doesn’t look great either
Harry,,,you mentioned a while back about keeping bees??any further progress?
Thanks for the update.
Awesome video as always Harry.
I really enjoy Harry’s Garage videos, I’ve always been aware of the farm videos but never watched them, I do still wonder if like Clarkson the reason for the purchase of the farm land/ farm is to avoid the inheritance tax which is not charged on agricultural land due to heritage laws/ tax laws
Great stuff. Why do we not produce more of our own food? The government prefers to import? Just like oil…..it seems indigenous oil and food are BAD - but for some unfathomable reason imported oil and food is good?!?!?!? Insanity.
Globalisation
Britain has not been self sufficient for centuries. Farmers like Harry prefer the safety of management schemes that pay you to do nothing to your farm rather than risking good or bad years, like the year Harry didn't break even. Govt is part of import strategy but the reality is that farms elsewhere in the world charge less for their grain as it is lower quality and less costly to farm like any modern commodity.
@@dreamcrusher112 We used to be 75% self sufficient in the 1960s. But now we are about 50% self sufficient. Farmers are a strategic asset. If we are totally in the hands of other countries and war occurs we will starve….just as we nearly did in WW2 due to U-Boats. Then there is the benefit to the wider community of having areas of beauty for holidays and recreation.
@@dreamcrusher112 It’s a very short sighted strategy much favoured by the bean counters. Looking only at the direct price of a commodity. It fails to take into account the social cost and the cost to the wider community. Fewer rural jobs, agricultural suppliers, agricultural engineers, agri-chemical/fertiliser producers and this can then be extended throughout a community and all the multiple trades that service that community. Look at the destruction of communities involved in the steel industry, mining and fishing. To know the cost of everything and the value of nothing!
I'm exceedingly poor and for the past decade or so I've grown 90% of my own food. Yorkshire-based, tiny budget, minuscule [20'] garden, 4 rescue hens, various fruit and veg crops. Whatever nonsense the government gets up to in terms of starving Britain back to Roman times, I'll continue to strive for independence.
It may not be 'The Good Life', but it's MY bloody life, and it's good to be in control.
Well, sort of in control...
Brilliant video Harry as always, just shows the work our farmers have to do. Unfortunately the wierdos would rather us import everthing we need to eat and we grow nettles and docks.
And they'd like us to eat them rather than meat...!!
I still can't get to grips with leaving half such a productive farm out of production. Lunacy!
OSR is out of the equation because of ban on neonic pesticides... Harry has explained his reasons for temporarily taking risk out of the farm
@@sianwarwick633 Sian, I understand why any sensible farmer would do what Harry has decided to do. But taking good land out of production is madness. I think anyone who believes it is has a very short memory. I agree that, in my life, insect life has changed, there are virtually no insects on car windows and headlights the way there were. I know I am deaf but I remember lying in grass and the insect noise was tremendous. Not now. Perhaps the husbandry should change. Farming is too produce food, so unless people eat less or there are less people it will have too be imported , presuming that this is possible.
Not when more wheat is produced than is needed!
@@robertreznik9330 Produced by whom Robert.
@@andrewmellon5072 Russia, Ukraine, and US produce so much wheat that in US one hr wages for the yearly consumption of one person. Six cents of the 1 lb bread loaf goes to the farmer.
You make a formidable team.