FARM UPDATE 265 An announcement. Check on Capulet beans, solo & cultipress winter bird food areas

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Ай бұрын

If you are new to the channel, welcome. 😊Please watch the updates below for a tour of the farm, looking at the machinery, grain stores, workshop and yard.
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Update 64:
FARM UPDATE 64 FARM TOUR PART 1 of 3, DETAILS OUR HEATHLAND FARM WHERE I LIVE, GRAIN STORAGE & CROPS
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Update 65:
FARM UPDATE 65 FARM TOUR PART 2 of 3 LOOKING AT THE MAIN FARM LAYOUT & SOME MACHINERY HISTORY
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Update 66:
FARM UPDATE 66 FARM TOUR PART 3 of 3 LOOKING AT THE CONTRACT FARMING SIDE OF THE BUSINESS
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@roberthoward3723 Ай бұрын

There’s one thing your video does show, the precarious nature of food production. You can take nothing for granted and there’s only a narrow gap between surplus and shortage and between innovation and stagnation!

@tomgreene1843 Ай бұрын

Very true ..a fact not appreciated in the modern times ...especially by many with the green agenda !

@robertsmith9810 Ай бұрын

EVERY one predicts a glut as we called no one predicts a shortage ,that`s the nature of farming😂😓

@nickevans7265 Ай бұрын

Another great video to highlight the constant challenge farmers face to produce our food whilst trying to make a living. 👍 You do some amazing work

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

😊👍

@markmeredith5521 Ай бұрын

It’s almost impossible to farm in the UK at the moment....weather patterns,lack of seasons,lack of government interest/backing, lack of crop protection inputs (flea beetle,leather jackets, slugs) means that producing food is getting very prohibitive. To the consumer,food is getting dearer by the week....for the producer taking land out of production looks more and more attractive. Would love to know what they think the end game is..

@ardeer1 Ай бұрын

Good to hear your hosting Cereals 2025 👍it will be a well organised event no doubt 😉 That’s a fantastic service from Househam, they come and collect your sprayer, clean it all, tire paint an all, and deliver it back ready for work 😝

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

😊👍

@trevorsidley7697 Ай бұрын

Well done for securing Cereals 2025 Andrew. Hopefully we can look forward to some "Waffles" of the setting up process and what happens behind the scenes.

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

You won’t be short of waffle from the cereals site, that’s for sure!

@timgalley4391 Ай бұрын

You're a good man Andrew giving Ollyblogs a hug and telling him that you will host Cereals 2025 so that he can have an "All area's car parking and access pass". A suitable gold or platinum VIP sign to fix to the roof of Olly's Range Rover is expected lol

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@clivemillington5740 Ай бұрын

Great news about Cereals, will be able to check out where you are!

@grahamglasper4463 Ай бұрын

Brilliant news about cereals I will put that date in diary

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

Make sure you do!

@robertallen3441 Ай бұрын

Glad its not just me having problems with slugs this year. My garden has never been as bad as it is this year. I assume its a combination of wet weather and lack of decent winter frosts. Olly H has lost his sunflowers as well. We definitely need some warmer weather and sunshine.

@1ADP Ай бұрын

Mixed video very sad about the beans lost areas of crop and also the poor take on the cover crops but the last clip very pleasing to the eye seeing that beet

@bobcrawford2105 Ай бұрын

Sugar beet as you say will benefit from inter row cultivation. Spent many hours doing side hoeing as we called it 5 rows at a time one tractor driver one steering hoe Great cereal’s will be on your farm. 30 mm rain with me Saturday to Saturday. But 7mm Saturday morning

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

☹️☹️🤦‍♂️

@ncombes6823 Ай бұрын

Andrew. Great news on the cereals site for 2025 looks like your all over the changes required ( layout !!! ). Leaves a horrible pit in the stomach when you see the Capulet bean emergence, feel for you, damned weather, it has to get better.

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

All the work that goes into them and something out of our control undoes it.

@geoffreymoore2204 Ай бұрын

Cold an wet destroying all this year,good luck with cereals, u need a clip on accommodation for it

@Gearoid35 Ай бұрын

Nice video, lovely beet crop hope the beans take off.

@petergarthwaite6805 Ай бұрын

Great video I guess our cold spring has proven difficult for your beans good luck 😉

@GrahamBlackbourn Ай бұрын

Had the chains fallen off the sprayer between Cereals site and your yard lucky it didnt fall off trailer

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

😂😂 The driver arrived at the barrier very early and didnt want to ring me so took the chains off at the gate.

@garyhalkon8749 Ай бұрын

Nala looked as if she had spotted a deer or hare in a field clip. Proper got some running speed. I always look forward to your midweek and Sunday videos. Having come from a farming family I wished we had kept the farm. It was all sold off 2 years before I was born in 1980. However, I take a great interest in farming I do believe in the saying "it's in the blood" Keep up the great work Andrew! 👍

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

Feel sorry for you. Nala did have a run about!

@adrianlayen4119 Ай бұрын

Another great update Andrew, It is good news you are hosting the show next year. I haven't been to an agricultural show since the days of the East of England show when it was a 3 day event at Peterborough. I will definitely come to the event. One thing I did see on George Saunders' video on the Ceres stand was a machine to cut the heads off black grass. I know you spend a lot of time reducing black grass, it would be great to see that machine working .

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

Total waste of time. The tractor wheels run it down before it’s cut, those areas will be full next year and there’s also lots of blackgrass heads below the wheat ears which it would miss.

@peterdennis9359 Ай бұрын

Another nice update Andrew, I know it's not on field scale but I've had garden seeds do the same as your beans, this year just not grow and seed disappeared

@richardbaker22 Ай бұрын

Great video Andrew

@ajpwheatley Ай бұрын

Grest news about Cereals 25 - Looking forward to it and I'm sure it will be a fantastic event 👍

@johncastle1702 Ай бұрын

Hi Andrew, re the interow cultivator in the sugar beet, it makes sense to do it now and follow with another herbicide, back in my days of agriculture it was a fact that I was introduced to that when the soil is disturbed, this although should kill emerged weeds, but the dormant weed seeds will be stimulated by the magic of nature into germinating, this was how we used to have a weed programme work in onions. This soil disturbance can often be best shown when excavation spoil heeps suddenly produce a great array of weeds, especially poppy, from depth because they have laid dormant until moved, the wonders of nature is what inspired most of my memories in agriculture, great news of Cereals coming close again (Sleaford), looking forward already.

@user-vx3km4iu9k Ай бұрын

Another great update, GPS, RTK, and individual row shut-off is amazing with no overlap between the headlands and main rows. Larson Farms in America set their drill, so it leaves a space between the headland rows and main rows to allow for easier harvesting

@jonstephens682 Ай бұрын

Morning Andrew. Cracking update again mate. That’s good news your hosting the cereals avert next here well done. I do hope your beans recover and grow nicely. That beet in the last field look really well and that GPS worked amazingly now overdrill looked good. 😊

@Explorer214urban Ай бұрын

I would leave them volunteers there as long as you can. Will be another high slug year this autumn

@markyoull6744 Ай бұрын

great news you hosting cereals

@irwinmorrow1267 Ай бұрын

Congratulations Andrew on hosting the cereals event next year. You must be very proud to be doing that. I’ve not been for years but I might definitely have to make the trip up 👍 at least you won’t have far to go next year 😂 It’s been such a difficult year trying to grow anything, it’s just been so cold, I’ve only had a couple of days this year that I’ve not wanted to be out working without my overalls on. Such a cold north wind. But yet the met office tell us we’ve had the warmest May on record in this country. We’ve got maize here that’s meant to be knee high by the 4th of July, it’s hardly 6 inches at the moment. Everyone is saying to stock up now as food shortages are on there way. If only us farmers could control the weather like the ones in power seem to do? 😂

@Tomlamb980 Ай бұрын

Straight on it with the first comment

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

😂😂👌

@EdwardMoore-so6zp Ай бұрын

Congratulations well done.

@philipmetcalfe6289 Ай бұрын

Well done for cereals 25. When did those negotiations start ? Will it return to 25000 attendance ? Bean establishment variability annoying. Difference in techniques really annoying. Heavy land beet looks good down the rows. Is that the only way to empty the freeflow ? Maybe a seed sock from Olly !

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

Started talking re cereals about 3 months ago. Seed sock no good for us because there’s no flap under the hopper, the rollers need to turn which puts seed all over the frame in the dust and soil.

@RICHIE87622 Ай бұрын

Brilliant news for hosting cereals! Dont forget not to let olly blogs in particularly if he starts moving cones around!

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

😂😂😂 I’m going to have a Wardy VIP lane!!

@ronaldlucas5360 Ай бұрын

Looking good

@almaxx9680 Ай бұрын

Geo engineering of the climate 😮 Thats why we are in a mess with the weather!!!

@robdavis5711 Ай бұрын

Brilliant update… great news that Cereals is in the county again next year, look forward to that! When you have a companion crop, how do you get rid of one crop without damaging the other, does the spray itself only target one, or do you spray the line of oats but avoid spraying the beans, or is it just down to the time that you apply the spray which treats one crop but not the other? Will any oats still make it through the combine?

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

The spray targets the oats but leaves the beans.

@stuartwarrick6444 Ай бұрын

Andrew just have a look behind the cab as you walk up the steps I recall seeing a missing bolt and a couple of loose ones! I think the are a 13 mm headed bolt.

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

Sorry Stuart, on which machine?

@stuartwarrick6444 Ай бұрын

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard hi Andrew, on the sprayer! When I see It on the stand it looked like a bolt was missing as you climb the steps and look behind the cab in front of you. I think it was a white panel.

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

@stuartwarrick6444 thank you, I’ll look tomorrow, it’s now at the Lincs show!

@thomasmacpherson5236 Ай бұрын

I think you need to go over to the Cotswold Andrew and show Adam (county file) how to control his black grass as he seems to have a horrific infestation. Great videos very interesting all time thanks Tom Macpherson

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

Cheers Tom. BG is a big problem this year ………… apart from our crops!!

@geoffreymoore2204 Ай бұрын

Ever try humic acid an molasses through ur fertiliser when spraying, should help beans an sugar beet.would waste alcohol in trays help keep slugs away

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

Don’t really know but I’d need a lot of trays to cover 150 acres!!

@geoffreymoore2204 Ай бұрын

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard true but slugs will go along way for it

@andrewmaccall5871 Ай бұрын

Such a shame about the beans, but as you say the weather has affected other crops too causing crop failure etc.

@treve2627 Ай бұрын

Another interesting Waffle. Interesting to see how the different drills influenced germination of the beans. Did the headland have extra cultivation? Would it be worthwhile using one of the newest cultivators that would hoe between the beet plants as well as the middle of the rows if available?

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

Only extra cultivation was through using the simba drill. Those inter row cultivators are very expensive and only used in high value crops like veg.

@hedleyjackson5131 Ай бұрын

I've slug pelleted pes this year first time ever I think. now have had to root out all the bird scaring kit always a challenge.

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

Slugs are everywhere

@richardmatthews3304 Ай бұрын

Intersting amaizing diference in the crop planted with different drills, i would guess the simba is disturbing more soil than the precision drill, would that then allow better drainage around the seed, best refurbish the simba and keep her going a few more years😂 i wonder why the flee beetle only selects certain crops, in our area farmers are mainly grass and yet we could plant a feild of roots on top of a hill the first time in 20 years and along comes zebady the flee bettle and their gone🤔

@RG-mk3ds Ай бұрын

You need your mate Olly blogs to sell you a seed sock !!

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

They don’t work on the free flow because there is no emptying flap in the hopper. The feed rollers all have to turn which then puts the seed all over the frame and pipes amongst the soil and dust.

@RG-mk3ds Ай бұрын

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard I knew there would be good reason!!!

@craigmacaulay8292 Ай бұрын

Hi.amdrew.how.are.you.are.you.busy.on.the.farm.

@jonathanollier2407 Ай бұрын

Congrats on hosting Cereals next year. Can you get the same carpark attendant for Ollie?

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@JohnnyMotel99 Ай бұрын

How does it work with a crop like the beans? If sections fail does that mean a total loss for the farm or is there an element of compensation because it's a test bed?

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

Yes, loss for us, no compensation, same for any crop as happened because of the floods

@chrisnichols5208 Ай бұрын

As a non farmer would I be able to visit the cereals 2025 at your farm I would quite enjoy a day out and maybe have a chance to say hello to you

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

Yes you will. You will of seen the discount code I put out for this years event, I’ll do that again for next year so watch out for it starting in May

@oliverelliott4453 Ай бұрын

I know of a guy who sells a thing called a seed sock for emptying drills. I'm not sure if you know him 😉

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

Haven’t a clue who you mean! They don’t work on the free flow because there is so emptying flap in the hopper. The feed rollers all have to turn which then puts the seed all over the frame and pipes amongst the soil and dust.

@bobwest2807 Ай бұрын

Hi Andrew. Do you think that because the precision drilled beans and black oats were planted so close together that they had a reaction causing the beans not to grow. You had broadcast the oats where you planted the the freeflow so there were bigger gaps.

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

I’m sure it’s down to the weather because last year we did exactly the same on a small plot and it worked a treat.

@peterwilson-qj2ds Ай бұрын

Great update Andrew, I have put the dates in my diary for next June. We need some warm weather to help with the crops, I have never known it to so cold and wet like it is this year. A shame about the beans it just show what affect wet has on crops, and slugs are loving these conditions I walk my dog in the evening and am amazed how many slugs I have seen just lately.

@bobwest2807 Ай бұрын

The experts say we had the warmest May on record. I think I missed it!!! Did you see it?

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

😂😂😂 That must of been the 5 days Rhonda and I were in Italy!!

@francismegginson Ай бұрын

Evening Andrew do you think the bean fly have affected the germination of your beans rather than the weather? The headlands have had same amount of rain and they have grown, so is it a mechanical issue rather than the weather.

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

I don’t think so. All the fields were cultivated at the same time with the same machine. The headlands were drilled with the Freeflow, the inside with the Amazone, did that not come across in the video?

@suresren Ай бұрын

Great video wardy, Do you think that planting these stewardship crops on farms around the country is going to lead to another problem with weeds that farmers have been fighting to control for years,

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

I don’t think so but definitely a problem for food security

@suresren Ай бұрын

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Totally agree with you on the food shortage issue,

@MrColmfitz Ай бұрын

Why Black oats as a companion considering the possible allelopathic effect from their root?

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

That effect is only from crops of the same species so cereal to legume is not an issue.

@bobwest2807 Ай бұрын

Hi Andrew. In the precision drilled area where you have no beans, will you let the black oats mature and combine them for future cover / companion crops?

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

Possibly, that’s one thing I’m looking at.

@Shaunalexander.99 Ай бұрын

You going to Lincolnshire show Andrew ?

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

Yes, both days. Have various roles and things to do and some social mixed in!

@paulsmith8282 Ай бұрын

How come your sprayer wasn’t chained on to trailer when it arrived back in your yard????

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

Because he arrived at the gate at 6.45 but didn’t ring me until 7.20 to let him in because he knew I was very late home from cereals the night before. So he took the chains off the other side of the gate.

@paulsmith8282 Ай бұрын

Thank you

@Explorer214urban Ай бұрын

I would leave them volunteers there as long as you can. Will be another high slug year this autumn

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

Which volunteers?

@Explorer214urban Ай бұрын

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Looks to be a mix of wheat or oats . Let the slugs chew on them additionally it will hopefully hide the beans in the meantime.

@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Ай бұрын

@Explorer214urban it’s not volunteers, they are a companion crop of black oats specially planted to do a job