Yeah, the lack of rain in May and June, killed a lot. Last year we got the best bumper harvest ever on the farm, but this year will be awful. Same amount of work, but not even near paying off. Started combining oats this afternoon, almost a trailer full and then got the joy of smelling a burnt threshing belt and black smoke coming from the harvester. So now I know what I have to do in the morning.

Never ever apologise for keeping it real Oliver. Because someone else knowing they aren’t in the storm alone, it could make all the difference to them.

The mood seems to be the same in other sectors of farming as well, people are getting fed up of working so hard for very little and on top of that we seem to becoming the enemy! Iam in the livestock sector mainly sheep and cattle and I've been getting very down about the job this year and I'm not alone!!!😢

Ollie keep yr head up, my dad always said farming is alway great cause we love it, some people will see you say you have made £200.000 but they don’t see that out of that money you have to take the cost of growing crop, staff wages, drying the crop, electricity etc. Ollie keep yr head up and just remember we are farmers cause we love it and it’s bred into us

Mother Nature is the farmers best and worst asset

Our 10 year old just told me to ssshh as he was listening to the detail you were sharing about how tough this year has really been. Don’t ever apologise for keeping it so real and sharing how hard farming really is as the world needs to know this. Here’s hoping tomorrow is a new day with more positive news for you. Keep up the good work Olly 👏🏻👏🏻

I’m a farmer, and it is the most rewarding (over a 5 year period 😑)and entertaining job you could wish for ( in the UK at least ) but a year like this coupled with current policy where we will only be supported in the future by not producing food is hugely bollocks that will only push out the smaller farmer and to what end? Very entertaining as always Olly, thank you. Done my knee in so 50%

I admire you for still being motivated to carry on Olly. I’m the wrong side of 60 and am really struggling to keep motivated as a Farms manager after a farming year like this one. A year ago, you couldn’t hold me back from being out there working. This year has completely knocked me sideways. It is now just a nightmare with no light whatsoever at the end of the tunnel.

I am a non farmer from farming background and am continously amazed at the resilience of farmers and their dedication and optimism in the face of real adversity . I am involved in a non farming related business and cannot understand why farmers voted in large numbers for brexit...the economic viabilty of many farming operations under current regime in britain is questionable...goverment needs to think of sustainability and food security...can knock the EU butvit was a key planks of policy.....I love your channel

Harry from Harrys farm, I donno the numbers but he has given up on OSR as a bad job, was very sceptical about beans and has gone down the environmental scheme instead. It's just stupid that farmers are now being paid not to produce food.

It's been rough year. 7 dry days from June 15 to August 29th.Barley is full of toxins ,having to plow it under. Not done first cut hay. And raining again

Farming, Best life choice in the world, worst career choice.. Hang in there Olly, the world will always need food producers, one day we’ll even start paying market value for it. Cracking idea for the bird scarer, hopefully it doesn’t pi55 of the neighbours in the process! 😮 80%. Loving the august weather.

Take care Olly, hubby has been farming since he left school, he is now 78 in that time growing 30 odd acres of potatoes until 8 years ago, were were getting less for a 25kg £3.00 them but back in the 1980 we had £7. per bag, pigs we had 260 sows breeding and finishing, stopped that 2 years ago, the last ones we made about £40.per head. It is just not sustainable. All corn and maize now sold to local dairy farms. That keeps us ticking over. Too hot today 70%

Totally agree with you regarding the mood in farming at the minute. Keep up the good work getting the message across mate

It’s always gives me a little relief to see your videos. Been a long, hard day today. Making everything I touch a struggle. I’m trying to keep my head up and my focus on my task at hand. Running on empty and feeling about 65% today.

You never need to apologise for having a rant Olly. We all understand and are here to support you, even if it be only with messages of sympathy and encouragement. Keep going, without you the bread shelves (and many other products) would be very bare !! Keep thinking of the merch ideas etc, I’m sure there’s many that watch that’ll support your merch store if you were to release some new items. ‘Every Hoodie helps’ 😉😂 The unpredictability of the weather must be so frustrating for you and all farmers. Although I have to admit, I am enjoying this last blast of summer, we’ll soon all be complaining it’s too cold 🥶

Farmers are the biggest gamblers in the world.

Keep yer chin up lad, there's always next year! Hope for the best, plan for the worst. You can't do much more than that.

Feel your pain. Our lamb prices for store lambs will not cover our input costs this year here in the Shetlands never mind the wool prices

Keep your head rigth olly we are all with you I give up framing a long time ago but you do a smashing job mate we all stand with you

WHY in the world are the governments of this world not being supportive in EVERY way to ensure farmers have EVERYTHING they need to be successful?? Farmers are the experts and tireless workers who grow our food!!!!! Thank you for your videos! ❤ Watching from Canada.

Hi Olly it’s been a poor harvest all over. In north west Ireland cutting spring barley at less than 2t/ac. Winter wheat and barley didn’t do much better. It’s either to wet or to dry at the real wrong times for growing crops. Here we go again and hope for the best. We are the biggest gamblers about. Here’s hoping next year will be better 😊 #85%. Thanks for the great video as always.

All the hard work and long hours you put in, you really do deserve to make a decent profit from your endeavours. Shame on the government for not supporting you and other farmers when they know full well the yields are low this year. I wish you well for the next crop olly

Sorry to hear the results of the harvest Olly, fingers crossed you can get more luck next year and more realistic input costs. We are all behind you and the team, stay 💪. 75% today (packing for our house move).

The aircon problem is gas. Just get a fridgie to put a meter on it to confirm and add gas.

Thanks for your thoughts and honesty Olly on how farming is at the moment

Great video Olly let’s hope for a better growing season next year

Really sank in when you said, If I stopped farming id have more money.. You would genuinely think that all that work would turn a profit, Its completely backwards to any other buisness... One thing is for certian, Mr grocer driving around in his Merc is up on a mountain of it, regardless of what the year was like.. He just adjusts prices to line his pockets and passes the hit onto the farmer and consumer...

Hi Olly, i do think the government will step in when its to late to help you, lets hope they see sense and look sooner 🤞🤞 Chin up we are all with you 👍👍

"This time next year, we'll be millinares! Rodney. "

Great video again olly. U have to take the bad years with the Good ones and hope there is more good then bad. Keep ur chin up!! and the KZfaq videos coming! hope for a better spring and summer in 2024

A brilliant video ollie........ I love it when people like yourself point out how risky and poor returns from farming impact the farming community........there seems to be a lot of the general public that think farmers are 'doing allright' and as for the government they don't seem to have a clue about anything rural. I remember last year George Eustice saying oh farmers will be alright without the single farm payment cos commodity prices have gone up.......well that might have been true last year but it's not the case this year. I think most farmers can tollerate a bad year perhaps 1 year in 5 but i think if farmers have too many bad years in a row a lot are going to 'pack it in'. The government have got it all wrong i think ........they keep saying oh farmers are going to be funded the same amount of money as they were getting under the single farm payment but what they haven't grassped is there new environmental payments are nothing to do with food production so where's the incentive to produce food going to come from. keep up the good work ollie .......we need people like you

Keep at it Olly - its all you can do really - its clear you have a good handle on your numbers though which is very important - you just have to imagine that it will all come right in the end, and I really do hope for you all that it does... Chin up!!

Check the cab air filter below the back window on the outside of the fendt, they seem to block up really easily

Think we all feel the same this year. Lots of work, high costs and low yields . I think I'm 30% down on total yield, with prices down 25% averaged overall and about 15-20% higher costs. And yet we will do it all again hoping for a better outcome. Just isn't sustainable

I was always told by Scott Dowling if farming was easy everyone would be doing it that’s why it’s so hard because only a true farmer would put up with the hard side of farming and a person that loves playing in the dirt

When they first became popular, we had a lot of those machines like the Herbi 4. We used them on school grounds maintenance but they were unreliable, mainly due to them needing to be very finicky unless kept scrupliously clean. Another problem was the very limited range of products that were available. No doubt they have improved in the 30+ years since I first came across them. They certainly needed to!

I really do feel for you it’s no joke working for nothing or less that’s farming. Ollie we’ve seen it all before what the general public don’t realise is your type of. Farming is so weather dependent love your dads new. Present bet that’s really handy getting back to your awful harvest Ollie it’s a good you’ve got your other interests I know what your they shouldn’t have to back up everything else don’t know the an you’ve just to crash on hoping it will all come right and one day it will don’t lose heart Ollie feeling 93% today another fantastic video Ollie keep them. Coming

Herbi sprayer. Yea! Well done your Dad ideal for another old begger who has such need! Thank you for that!

Your right, farmers take all the risk buying inputs, expensive machinery, land. Only for the weather to halve the yield. This is completely outwith our control.🤷 You didn't mention the expensive fertiliser used to grow this year's crops. Urea bought at £900/t. N at £650. This has just compounded the problem. Good your highlighting it to everyone. Lucky we've the NFU to support us.

Farming 200 acres of seasonal land with no subsidies. All livestock. The only way I make it work is with a full time job alongside and working night and day. If the subsidy goes there will be a hell of a number of businesses will not survive

That's a fair wedge to be down, with things being so tight that can't be sustained. Great video as always. Keep the chin up

The problem is if you get a bumper season next year, so does everybody else. That then forces commodity prices down! You guys can't win.

I do feel for you and all thee other farmers out there, you put in countless hours to grow the crops and then it all ends in a massive loss for you. I just don't understand this government they want you and every other farm to produce food for the country, but they don't want to help when its a bad year like this one. I hope the next season is a better one for you Olly and every other farmer. 95% Today .

Old boy I do some carting for once said to me “how do you make a million quid farming?” I said “no idea go on” he said “spend 10 million”. I can see he’s not wrong. 90% today been a good day but a bit warm for me

Air con wasn't keeping up in my new Holland this afternoon. 🥵 Had to take my boilersuit off! Even the dog was struggling.

Chin up Olly tough times don't last only tough people last

We've only just begun combining our spring barley, a little later than planned thanks to a resident staying in it over winter and chewing all the wiring for the second year running. Our yields are piss poor compared to previous years but we just have to plod on.... Couldn't give you an honest percentage today, see what tomorrow brings.

It sure has been one of the hardest years in a very long time in every sector but we just have to keep our heads up and plow on keep up the good work olly

Fred T,s the man to sort your aircon….👍..Keep your head up and keep looking forward as youre not going backwards..tough times for everyone the difference is nowadays the sheer amount of pounds shillings and pence needed to standstill…

Watched to end here Olly, your honesty here about the money this year is something I think alot of farms are going to have to face up too

From What i Can See The Problem With Farming Now Compared to The Past is The Cost of Machinery,Ignoring Out Useless Goverment Interfearing with Subs Etc, I Used To Help out on a 400 Acre Farm 40 Years Ago,The Bigest Tractor was 100hp Ford 7610,They Had Another 2 Fords Smaller 5610,4610 All 2WD and A Load Of M/F 135s.The Farm Employed 4 People Full Time. Now Most Farmers Have 200hp And Above Size Tractors And Run at 36meters Were it Was 12meters Then ,So All This Bigger Equipment Costs a Vast anount More And Everything Is Full Of Electronics So The Farmer Can Not Repair it Himself,Meaning Dealer Only Servicing, Where We Serviced Everything Ourselfs. You Also Feel You Must Keep Buying The Latest Tech That is Supposed to Be Better and Costs another Fortune To Buy and Run,If You Just Used Basic Smaller Tractors And Kit You Could Look After Yourself Surely You Would Be a Lot Better Off Than Keep Earning Money To Through Straight Back at Agri Dealers ???

Your honesty goes before you Olly - I really don’t know what else to say! It’s truly frightening listening to you talking about such huge losses, after all the work you put into trying to supply what the country needs. I love all the big machinery, tractors, etc, the farming seasons, working the ground etc, I find your boiler system / drying floors totally fascinating……..BUT……. The financing side of the business frightens the life out of me!!! 😮😮😮.

Hi olly, 75% today I started my first day at ag college and I'm chasing my dream of farming

Both my 700 Fendts had crap aircon,Jd always the best,it’s like a fridge.

My 516 is the same air con not up to scratch and only a year old I'm told it needs to be refilled that they didn't fill it enough in the factory A neighbour has the same issue

I feel for you Olly, I spent 44yrs involved in the motor trade mostly self employed and I felt like everybody was out to sink me with costs, rules, regs and getting people to pay for the work. The one thing that I fortunately didn't have against me was the weather so I certainly feel for you farmers.

Yeah this year’s crop was the most expensive to grow ever but the price is no where near it needs to be our wbarley was average wheat was very good sbarley was vpoor all because it had dry feet for 6 weeks when it was drilled. But we’ll do it all again but I’m trying to cut establishment costs with a new claydon drill instead of ploughing. 🤞🏻keep up the great work you showing the good and the bad is a good thing 👍

Be positive olly , I learned that and it works and on the way up 🎉, love the videos buddy take care ❤

I have to work (fixing things etc) so I can keep the farm. Luckily there's no mortgage or loans to pay

I always worked in greenhouses, in the beginning every product went to the clock and if the price was not met it would be destroyed, or used for animal feed but the price was regulated and the amount produced of every crop could also be regulated. But the growers start selling around the auction directly to supermarkets or traders and that is well when the yields are great but in bad years the trading companies dictate the prices, i don`t say auctions are better but at least they dictated the prices but with good yields you make less

Car storage is doing very well Olly. Convert one or two of your barns for that.

Hi olly Typical farming the good the bad and the disaster Drive on and 🤞 4 a better 2024 79% today 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🥛🚚💨💨

Probably teaching how to suck eggs but have a gen6 724 as well they aren’t great air con but will work in up to 40 degree we had last year, the filters you cleaned out are for recirculating system the main cab filter is below back window outside and it does choke easily due to where it is. But also it might be freezing due to software glitch as I have had software glitches in mine being an early 21 build make sure software is up to date 👍👍 Also don’t run right down cold go up one notch helps stop it freezing up when really hot. Fantastic vid to help highlight to greater public the issues farming is facing especially weather related!

just watched ashville weekly and now you. always a good watch :D

Some industries get thousands of attempts to produce a product each year. Farmers get maybe 50 goes a lifetime.

Great video Olly

Have had wild bees in our Stable walls for years, usually laid back and calm but they got really ansty when the Hay was unloaded - with a Claas telehandler. Must be the engine note frequency.

Was weird not seeing the girls. Typical as your finished harvest the weather has improved always look forward to seeing your videos every day I miss farming was an awesome job

I think you should go back to ploughing 😅😅😅

thanks olly mate enjoyed video 😊 thanks olly

Unfortunately it's the same across the board. I worked with a contractor last year, worked died down and I ended up having to look for work elsewhere. He is still going but scaled down massively but at least 3 others within a 20 mile radius have stopped all together. Farming and farming related work is probably at its lowest just now and I don't think I've spoken to anyone that's hopeful for the future. It's a sad state of affairs at the moment and more and more contractors/farmers are just giving up. No point spending all that time and money working at a loss. 😵

It is important to get the air conditioning fixed/re-gassed as it can start to drag the oil from compressor around the system and compressor could end up having to be replaced as well. I use a local to me independent company as they give great service and have more knowledge of the foibles of the different systems.

Farmers always hoping that the next years crop will be is best ever Long hours hard work with rewards in the hands of rain at correct times of the year

Great video Olly it’s truly is a sad time when the government gives you money for not planting crops than growing them 👏👏👍👍

Yes not good times. My dad jimmy said 45 years ago 1 good year 1 bad year and 5 average years in 7 😎

Great video Olly can’t believe the loss on the crops I think if everyone is in the same boat there could be few farmers going out of business...I’ve been looking for banger ropes as well to help keep the pigeons moving when out shooting..😊😊50%

hard to say at this time after the wettest summer for some time, but you should start to consider using an irrigation system of some kind to get your crops through the dry times, just a thought,

There are high protein crops that grow in arid africa, I can see we will be sowing that in the UK soon.

Our beans. And osr where just the same. Beans only good 1 year in 5. But we grow them.

Great video olly that’s a lot of money to be down farming is a real gamble it’s crazy I’m 80% today

Finished our harvest today on some okay spring oats. Can’t say the same for the OSR out loaded this morning which yielded under 2t/ha😢 I think cab AC units struggled today being outside air temp was so warm.

Great video 😊

Follow the money if they don’t want food go down the birds and bees route. Enjoy your honesty and efforts

Its like your a gambler pays your money and takes the spin. Keep the spirts up

It no use pricing up the crops you didn’t get, it just the same as pricing up what that dead bullock was worth and then getting the bill from the knacker man. It’s the only thing a farmer from 100 years ago would recognise it always been the same. Unfortunately it’s going to be a tough time for the people following the same finance model of the last ten years when borrowings were cheap and you could upgrade your equipment every few years. Those who have less borrowings will weather better in my opinion ( lived through the 80’s I know what’s coming)😩

The t shirt sounds a great idea , I’d buy one 😂

Farmers are generally internal optimist's.... there's always next year. You have to move on and grow your next crop better than the last one. Well that's what keeps me going. We are lucky in NZ, having irrigation, must be hard watching crops go backwards and knowing there is nothing you can do about it. (Irrigation does cost though)

Time to start irrigation

Chin up Ollie, At least you're in a location where you can operate viable diversification projects - imagine how tough it would be without them. Things might be tough with the farm over the next 12 months but it could be disastrous without your diversification income

I had the very same thoughts this evening I'm a fruit grower. Just feel it is like swimming against a ever increasing current and only for the fact I have everything invested in this and I need to try to get something back I would definitely walk thankless job a the moment

Air con only needs re gasing if there's a leak in the system . If your getting cool air it's probably working okay .

I use use CDA sprayers at work , absolutely brilliant far better than a knapsack for a lot of jobs . I have a conventional two metre sprayer for bigger areas. Now we're out of Europe farmers need to set up more co-op's etc to try and control the prices rather than the buyers setting the prices.

Better to rant away ofirlly than keeping it in 🤞🏻for rain after sowing 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I hear all the time about the problems with water. Do we not need to start looking at ways we store water to be used in the summer months. I think we can say we get more than a enough water the rest of the year, so why not look at ways to store it.

CDA Complete Droplet Application Sprayer

Agree but you look the headlines and someone sells a Ram for 170 last week you go to a farm sale and farmers go mad ! The price of land is crazy for the return but farmers que up to buy it, farmers still buying new equipment at astronomical prices ! The world gone mad !!

It's been a crappy summer for everyone. 90% today how are you today Olly

Put a sumo through all your land and you’ll see a big difference. Stop running tractors like the xerion that drink fuel and get something better on fuel and you won’t have a huge fuel bill

Air filter on the back of the cab, blow that one out.