Good work, very clean and genuine content. Phil is a great guy, farmer & businessman, with endless passion for the UK Ag industry.

Absolutely not good fat pheasants this land has a shock coming and MrPutin is more than capable of delivering it, never seen a farmer on a bike is complete misnomer the government is determined to drive farmers into the ground. Why has poor quality imported wheat been permitted into the country and our wheat rejected. No farmers no food feed people not birds.

SFI is certainly much better than rewilding going forward. The latter is such a disaster for food production. love the videos as an ex farmer. never was an easy choice but it seems harder these days!

The SFI should be limited to, say, about 10% on any one farm, good presentation Olly, cheers from Kent

No, its bonkers.

Food only for humans

Why do farmers think the weather has been so bad 😂, just bad luck or because of the badgers 🤔because of people's actions is the answer. Another fact, another thing is, blaming other wild animals for TB is wrong ( 🦌🦡) & the government are pushing that, because the truth is, people again are responsible for TB & all other diseases that are spreading ( fact). 1 farmer on your video said about where your food will Come from in the future, hopefully from the land, but some serious changed needed 😂, personally, from wat I can see on the news papers, 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇷🇺🇮🇱 humanity has not come on much in the last 🤔 for ever, (still hope do) 🤞 🌍, Coming to u from Ourzazate 🇲🇦, edge of Sahara 🌴🐪 🧕🏾, 3 ½ hours from home ✈️ ☘️, left for a break from the Grey, wet, gloomy weather. Holidays best money ever spent 😎 🍹

Some farmers need education on how nature works & the balance of life. Nature is disappearing at an alarming rate. We need nature to survive, nature certainly doesn't need us. We are changing the face of the planet & not for the better ( in the last 30 years) ( including the weather). Fact. Native American saying =. Wen the blood in your veins returns to sea & the earth in your bones to the ground, perhaps then u will remember, that this land does not belong to u, it is u hu belong to the land ( fact). Everything people do with the land now, is everyone else's business, because we all want to live. That's my rant finished 😎

I’m all for helping wildlife but I feel the government needs to put subsidising food production top of the list , not feeding birds or giving up good food producing land for subsidised solar fields , this country has the ability to be self sufficient regarding food production rather than relying on imports and that’s what we should be pushing for

If SFI and stewardship is what they are willing to pay us for why argue.

Grow food. Don’t let the WEF rule our countryside.

Bumper crop of pigeons for next spring

As a farmer it is out job to grow food just because people are influenced by the tv media and in turn the government has imposed this policy that we are to be park keepers. The lesson learned during war 2 have been forgotten, it is a wise policy to grow our own food.

Sfi best thing to happen for years massive support now , got whole farm in 4 payments over year no more Chem or fert bills better than 4t /acre wheat 👍

Farmers have been turned into beggars for the entertainment of fools. How can an industry like farming have arrived at this point. The people who are creating this situation of tree hugging, flower power department will rue the day they have compromised this very dear and honourable profession.

Olly, we are all struggling with the un-squarable circle that is sustainable food production. I view the problem as trying to produce food in an environment that needs to be sustained. Particularly carbon positively, if the food we produce has to ‘borrow’ from the ‘bank of carbon’ then we need to strive to adjust this. The birdseed plots, mixed crops, fallows, long rotations, reduced chemical and artificial inputs, low food miles etc etc, all help with that aim. This, of course, comes with lower yields, harder, less predictable outcomes and higher food costs. If the aim is to produce food and try and be sustainable/protect the environment, we need to acknowledge that food needs to priced at its true (environmental) cost. This is an obviously unpalatable situation, probably impossible, hence the un-squarable circle.

My view is not to feed the birds but reduce human food production, its a control thing.

I just see yet another government manufactured problem with the SFI, wood pigeons will breed all the way through the winter if they have a good food supply and now they have, so don't be surprised if numbers increase dramatically thus more to do damage to crops next spring/summer,??

Got be some common sense with sfi, rewilding subsidies, what happens when farms think bugger this it’s just as profitable and less work than grafting to do food production

flower s should be growing on margins only

Look on council planning for new 5g and oppose, stop them putting up. They are not safe and not certificated. Colchester Council watch give info on chan.

Farmers feed the world. We need to acknowledge and thank farmers for the food we consume each and every day. Yes, we can import however, have you noticed how Local farmers markets are growing in popularity? We can get local, farm to plate products. This channel gets more informative and educational as it develops - Congrats on 11K. Fantastic to see the upcoming generation acknowledge/know the struggles they will be taking on as farmers. Not sure about subsidy Olly

Its absolutely bonkers what a waste of fuel and poison talk about going green its only good for the pen pushers

Info is out there. Look for it.

Big farms need to stand with small farms. Once the small go they'll be after the bigger and so on! Weather be a lot better off they stop spraying barium, aluminium, strontium and other chemicals.

Same as register chickens! They need to be told to f off. But everyone's got to do it? No good going off half cocked as they say. Needs to happen soon as we're running out of time!

The guy is right gov doesn't understand farming BUT THE AGENDA IS GOING TO PLAN!

IT'S TIME YOU READ AGENDA 2030,, FROM OUR WONDERFUL KING AND HIS WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM MATES!!!!!! IF THAT PLAN IS REALISED, WE AS FARMERS ARE TOTALLY AND UTTERLY FUCKED!!!

Really good to see Myerscough getting involved in forestry.

i think livestock farmers have done better than arable farmers this year.......grass is a less sensitive crop to grow........maybe you need to be more of a mixed farming farmer olly put those fields that keep flooding into grass and keep some cattle/sheep use your straw to bed cattle then have the muck to put back out on the fields.........mixed farming spreads your risks........if you have a wet year its good for grass and livestock and if its a dry year its better for the arable side

Hi regarding covercrops or bird covercrops, They all come at a cost ie winter food for slugs letherjackets , all will creat havock to folling crops which must be speayed ,crows pigeons attack emerging crops

Hi Olly I have a mixed farm cattle and cereals if the government wants flowers why not grow them good break crop.I am going into some SFI and cutting down on cow numbers Good program keep up the good work.Cheers from Cornwall. I seen you at the RCS last year.👍🤠

Why is it when these programs go to ploughing matches they rarely show any ploughing its just general waffle around the trade stands?

A mix but focus the SFI on less productive areas. The perils of not being food self sufficient have already been highlighted in WW2.

Newbie to this channel. Very informative and interesting watch. Cheers to all involved.

All that is being done to agriculture is all under UN agenda 2030 and people are wasting there time talking about the problems unless they research it in depth. Can’t believe people are falling for this SFI destruction of agriculture.

As you know Olly, I'm an advocate of farmer's farming, growing food for the nation, agree we have to be mindful of nature, but hedge management, ditch and water management and wild margins Seems once again, government are encouraging farmer's to stop food production and rely on imports, otherwise they'd be more willing to put sfi money into the waterways to prevent food and wildlife loses I just hope the resilient farmer's continue to produce and the government start to look at the populous and their requirements Keep up the great work ALL Geoff

the NHS pays huge numbers of unproductive staff , the agriculture bill is peanuts

Grow food

Although the SFI is grown or the winter bird seed, as you say the bees are all over the flowers so it a positive thing for pollinators. This is good in turn for crops so it seems a great idea. A good insurance policy for you Olly.

The food harvest is bad with the weather so why get paid for feeding birds

You tube paid for your shed it’s no wonder you talk a mile a minute. Pemberton farm isn’t that unusual

Thanks for covering the APF. Its a great day out but always interesting to see what caught Stephen's eye.

Brilliant video good seeing Stephen again it looked very wet at the Cheshire. Ploughing MatchFancy Claas making there 500000 Combine unbelievable and what a success story I love Claas. Machines in my opinion there the best And thanks to all concerned for making a brilliant video

Two great young entrepreneurs Tim P and Joe.

Good round up

Colbolt may make a plant grow but is there residue left in the soil and what does it do to the soil and what residue is in the grains? I'm only asking as it's a fairly new thing and from what i know cobolt isn't a particularly safe metal, like lead for instance? I know farmers haven't asked for it, it's what corporations and science has decided. Is there any studies into its affects.?

David, the fuel monitor guy, looks like he's cosplaying Bill Gates...

What an interesting young man Joe is. 19 going on 39 🤣. Don't know many 19 year olds like that, bet he has been working from a very young age

Kudos to the young contractor, there will always be a future in agriculture, there are tough times and there will be more, but like he said , "if you want to eat three times a day". The food has to come from farmers somewhere.