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Good video..👌

Hello, always enjoy hour videos, thank you for doing it! I would be interested in your aero if the price was reasonable, I am looking for something that will spread or undersow into crops at 24m. What sort of price did you have in mind? Thanks Ian

Hi Antony, I’m just curious but I wondered what made your field next to the houses so challenging. Is it due to relations with the neighbours or farm kit access issues and the like. Best wishes, Tony.

Another interesting video

I love the fact that you are never afraid to be trialling all sorts of different agricultural approaches. As farming is often a game of trial and error perhaps many more of your farming friends and connections will be brave enough to do the same if they aren’t already. Good luck and best wishes, Tony.

Could you please show a close up of how you have installed the inverted electric motors? And also a list of the parts used, if possible? Thanks in advance. I also have a Kuhn Aero and would like to modify it, to improve reliability.

Would the compost heap not create a haven for rat infestation with the waste grains?

Very nice videos, why liquid, isnt that hauling more weight

I think you've been very generous in your appraisal of that rotary weeder Antony. Time will tell.

Nature’s timeline is all over the place and what crazy times you guys and gals are going through. However I do feel that anything planted in your soils is better than having nothing at all. Birds from the likes of those lovely Skylarks I’m hearing in the background to many others will be thankful for the cover for sure. Luckily for those in the Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme the government has recently added some flexibility to the various crop establishment dates and various other adjustments. You’re quite right about buffering your income with other options as I feel that is the only way you folks will ultimately survive into the future. Best wishes, Tony.

the black lab is so cute 😍

Great summary of challenging year. Amazing how GPS allows harrowing for weed control. Also, black lab rules

Just finished myself here in aberdeenshire, actually turing out to be an ok start, 10day old up and away quite pleased

We stopped drilling on 12 April to late on blue clay, 600 acres will get winter seeds in late September

Did I miss the weeded and non weeded explanation on the S wheat Antony, not sure what the different application was. Sorry if I'm being thick.

Good job

Don’t tell anyone you sow urea after 31st March 👍🏻

Dust in sussex wet under the crust driving around wet spots, min 48 hrs till it'll roll fun fun fun

WET still! Anyone on the Wildfarm walk at Diss last week will know the action of the Terrablade on the soil is Phucking 🫢 😳

Very nice videos

Been a horrible day here in the west side of the country today, nice to get on with some spring work

Nice video

Thanks for the yield info and drill comparison

I didn't say this but with those beans so forward, you might find that when the cleavers finally break cover and get to the stage of ripening their seeds that the growing season for the beans will be over and you can 'ahem' go a bit off label and waft something on to knock the cleavers enough to knacker any seed return and make harvesting relatively ok ?

Thanks for taking the time re crop yeild info antony, we have a moore drill we only really drill small acrerage if cereals for ourselves, but do a fair acerage of turnips sweeds etc for others in various situations, we do some grass seeds which is why i really chose a moore as the discs dont rip the ground to much, saying that the unexpected bulk of our work is turnips etc, direct drilling is certainly not a one drill fts all job, plus theres weather slugs and bugs (and polititions😉) to chalange evrything we do.

Antony, please invest in a decent microphone with a furry cover to stop the wind noise. I like your content but gave up on this because of the wind noise.

So a hard year for the farmers. When is it too late to plant spring crops before it’s worthless for yields. Love from ireland

So voluntary work was making him money. Some man 😂

Very interesting and well presented.

It would be fascinating to see a demonstration of the farm software you use for your cropping plans that you showed at 1:56 into your video. What your videos always illustrate is to prove to a non-farmer like me just how varied your skillsets are as a Farm Manager and why it must be a challenging but far from boring job role. Funnily enough as I type this you have returned once again to your software example. Best wishes, Tony.

Hi Antony, Really enjoyed the video; very interesting. Yes, a very difficult year. What sort of plant population do you aim for with the beans? I guess you don't rely too much on the beans tillering out looking at the crop? P.

Your content is extremely valuable to me. I don't necessarily agree with everything you say but it is always interesting, thoughtful and thought provoking so thank you.

I like carbon, its plant food! Sounds like this new incentive is detrimental to profit and resulting in even more paperwork! Carbon is king, we are carbon based and plants grow so much better the more of it we have. Gov have no clue.

Excellent summary of the complex interactions involved in making decisions about cropping & available SFI options in this new ELMS era. I thought your point about carbon was particularly salient. In the aftermath of the Red Tractor & Greener Farm Commitment furore, it is clearly obvious that buyers of farm gate produce are expecting to & already extracting value from farmer owned carbon via "trading incentives" etc. These large commercial organisations will carry on with this process regardless, dominate, take control and try to drive the value down as they do with everything else whilst we're not paying attention

Very interesting thanks Anthony. Couldn't agree more on your ADM contract observations. Potential changes to NUM3 sowing timing requirements are concerning! Hopefully existing agreements will keep the existing requirements....

Inspirational. This is the kind of thinking that farmers need to use as we evolve our businesses to more diverse income streams

Great video again. Shows how complex and multi variate the inputs into a good yield is.

Hi Anthony have you got any jobs going mate im 19 are used to work on a farm in Hereford. I have got experience in driving, tell handlers and tractors I’m passed my tractor, driving course about two years ago I’m live in stoke Mandeville cheers josh if you could get back to me it would be nice cheers josh

Brilliant watch as always. I do find it fascinating how farmers and growers have an obsession with planting dates and the like. I am in no way talking down to farmers here but nature’s timeline (no pun intended) doesn’t stop and start at set dates. Soil temperatures would be a key ingredient to my mind, as they are to flowering plants and budding trees. So maybe a few temperature sensors would be a good investment and when a certain threshold is met and the fields are passable for farm traffic then you can crack on. And out of interest, with birds such as a small selection of Swallows and other species already here alongside others overwintering that didn’t used to, I believe dates don’t tend to really matter. Just my tuppence. Best wishes, Tony.

Keep up the good work Antony, may I suggest, forage rye, winter vetch, winter beans and fodder radish which is deep rooted , benefit your drainage problem. Obtain the Grass, forage crop magazine from British grassland society, read my article on simple soil health. Remember definition of an expert and a consultant. An EX been kicked down the road , Spert a drip of water. CON U the farmer, salt floats in the sea , ants folllow the one in front like sheep.

We sprayed off early in the frost period prior to cultivation which I was dubious about for efficacy reasons. However its done a very good job although there is some newly germinated blackgrass now appearing so we will need to go again. We used a Horsch Terrano cultivator working at about 50 mm. As the frosty weather went on the ground became too hard but luckily we had virtually finished. There's definitely a sweet spot between carrying the tractor effectively on top and getting into the ground. Pretty pleased so far with the results and its laying well even with all this rain

Watching again. I have winter rye and vetch which looks great now. I'll keep an eye on growth stage and date re your late spring wheat idea. It is due to be flailed or crimped and go into a summer cover but may leave some to combine or (now) even drill some late S wheat 🤔 😬

Fall is for date and spring is for soil i understand the second part but cant figure out the first part

I've heard that a thick rye mat would stop or reduce the chance of sclerotia being splashed up on the plant. If you're trying to raise a cerial after crimping, would be nice to have some vetch in the rye for some N. My wish for my self would be to do that with beans or an intercrop.

I'll need a week (and second watch) to take that all in Antony 😄. Looking forward to pt2.

Power harrow, light fast pass 🤔

Hi! Really like your content! I’m a young farmer from southern Sweden and we also got a LOT of blackgrass and some really heavy clay soil, I like your way of thinking and the way you share it with us, keep on!! Strawrake is my favourite! It works both before and after the seeder👌🏻 Do you think you will get more springrown blackgrass if you touch the soil more with the strawrake or the terrastar again, compared to the rolling? Probably it doesn’t matter but maybe it will. If not I would go with the rake.

Wouldn't it be better to rake it?

I'm surprised how tilthy that soil is after the terrastar. Surely a pass with your einbock would make a nicer job of levelling and not leave the soil so firm? And then any loosened blackgrass would have a high chance of wilting.

Good job, nice length of content