Dry They Give - Heavy Rain We Got | A Wet Mucky Second Cut Attempt

In this video we are trying to salvage our second cut, like most farms in Ireland this year it's fare from normal conditions for August.
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[@deborahdanhauer8525]

I have to say, you keep your farm cleaner and neater than any farmer I’ve ever seen. It’s a really beautiful farm because of it too.❤️🤗🐝

[@kevinobrien5964]

This is like going back to watching live TV , going out of your way to watch something at a set time and looking forward to it ' airing'. A fully engaging gentleman who is a joy to watch . I have no connection to the farming industry but get a real joy watching you each Sunday .

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Cheers Kevin

[@jenaemarieAZ]

I love his voice and vernacular too!

[@paulineheaney6945]

Me too and I'm a 74yr old lady ❤

[@ipfreely10001]

Good man adrian for those caring words.

[@themayorofdipshittery3646]

I remember the “summer” of ‘85 well, trying to make hay and not getting any dry weather, our neighbour’s son took a 12 bore to himself aged 25, not one of us saw it coming, he was full of mischief and fun but obviously far more going on inside that youngsters head, life is fragile and the mind is the same. Good advice, step back, chill out and another day will come just the same 👍

[@paulineheaney6945]

God rest him. Life is very fragile 💔

[@tomdeevy3390]

Tought year 1985 no glodal warming that year

[@DOGSARETHEBEST.]

Brilliant message at the end there Adrian. I've no doubt but that that will have given a boost to a lot of farmers and others as well. P.s. I thought you said you were going to rest and yet you ended up scraping the yard. I've said it before, you genuinely are an inspiration.

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Well sure hopefully lad, we’re all in the same ball

[@shirleysousa1133]

You have a great attitude thanks for sharing those kind words at the end

[@stephenkelly2067]

Beautiful message at the end

[@prepperfortheages878]

I remember the summer of 85, was on an archaeological dig in west Wales. Wettest summer in living memory, rained for 21 days straight.

[@johnperry5102]

that was a great ending to your video, very well spoken, and so true

[@shaneprior]

Jesus Adrian, i feel old, i remember 1984 & 1985 been very bad years, we had to shake out meadows with pitchforks to try and get it dry, you couldn't put a tractor in them, fun times, sweet Jesus!

[@patrickcollins2490]

Your father is right 1985 86 and 87 were terrible, changed people from making hay over to making round bales of silage. We were going to the axles with trailers trying to get silage out of fields. Also picking up hay that was weeks on the ground gone black with the silage harvester and making pits in fields cos people would have no feed for winter without it. Fields recovered stock survived and we carried on. This will pass.

[@jimgardner9044]

Yea that was what it was like!

[@damienconefrey5546]

Like other comments I have read,I know nothing about farming but came across this channel during Covid lockdown.I've admired your work ethic,your positivity ,your attention and pride in your daily chores and in your family.Continued success on your channel and "keep the faith" as they say!!😊

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Cheers Damien

[@anthonyatherton5994]

Feeling your pain with your weather Adrian we’ve not had a drop of rain in Paphos Cyprus since March our temperatures atm 37 to 44 degrees our problems are wild fires 🤷‍♂️🌞🥵🥵

[@IFarmWeFarm]

That’s a big problem, I seen the that on the news 🥵

[@bernardobrien2196]

Its been an awful summer ground conditions are testing man and machine

[@paddy294]

Cracking video as always. I like your no nonsense approach to things. You are a true gentleman Adrian

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Cheers lad

[@michaelcoriordan]

Hi Adrian, Great video and your message at the end was well said. It has been a real smash and grab summer for us these last few weeks.

[@TB-nh4dg]

Making the best of the situation Adrian and rightly focusing on the positive! I thought you had went all Peaky Blinders on us with that hair cut your rocking. I think, having followed the channel from some time that drone footage provided a real perspective on just how steep some of the fields are and the skill and experience required navigating them and when not. Calf looking very healthy with their glossy coats. Thanks again for taking the time to share content at what is a challenging time for you and many farmers across the UK and Ireland. 👍🏻🚜👏🏻

[@IFarmWeFarm]

The peaky blinders cap is coming soon 😉, cheers lad

[@denisemeredith2436]

The weather has been really rough this year and our Summer is non existent. I love seeing your farm and especially the cows who always look happy.

[@banjoboy8802]

Hi Adrian, I do believe Tom Pemberton's Fields have suffered heavy flooding again this summer. I see from your drone shot there is a narrow strip just above the stream that has standing water. Might help move the water faster of the top end of the "wet field" if you put in some drainage in that narrow strip. Your the first, nay lad the only farmer I have seen pick up a shovel and scrape the yard by hand. You have a tidy farm and one to be proud of.

[@marketmalc]

Well said Adrian. It's like the summer of 1976. That was a scorcher. Years change and always surprise.

[@garymadden2656]

Great video Adrian and well said at the end 👏👌

[@wyoming99]

Ah this is the best Irish farming channel for me…. Fair play to ya Adrian you got it sussed.. can’t wait for more cottage content too!

[@jameslittle87]

Great video,s Adrian.Yes 1985was a bad year remember us mowing with a 35 and cutting bar and lifting it with the buckrake and making clamps pure hardship but had to be done.

[@padraicmcpartland7830]

Very well said at the end Adrian👏👏!! Can’t do anything about the weather only try to embrace it as best you can and tomorrow is a new day!!

[@padraiggeaney3167]

Brilliant video adrian you are dead right sometimes even if you dont want a break you need that time to recharge the batteries and focus the mind

[@karolschulz48]

Sorry to see the weather is not cooperating. Here in Wisconsin, USA we are needing rain so bad. We have had a few rains so it looks like there will be some sort of a harvest but now that the corn is making ears it is essential to get it. So let's pray that you get our dry hot weather and you send us some rain! I think Ruby is going to be a herd boss when she freshens in a year and a half. As always good to see my favorite Irish farmer. Keep up your positive thoughts. Take a little time to spend with the family and recharge your batteries. Stay well and stay safe.

[@dorothydavebritton3961]

True words Adrian! Well said. Here in the states, I don't know if we'll get a second cutting. Didn't get 1st cut done until mid July. This past week we had 4 1/2" of rain. Hang in there everyone. Thankfully, the good Lord is in charge 😉.

[@gerardhealy2110]

hard going this year for all us farmers.. no such thing as seasons now the way its gone

[@jeanetteblowen8315]

Lovely video. Very wise words. Look after yourself, Adrian. Take care. ❤

[@dieselbushcraft1299]

Definitely wise words indeed. Where I live in the UK I have been looking at the grain crops that have been battered down by the storms, I can understand how bad it must make people feel. I’m just glad that we still have a farming industry to provide for us all in these difficult uncertain times.

[@kevingovier5090]

Great video Adrian 👍 shame about look of fields but they will recover in time, good to hear you have enough feed for animals this winter, And your chat at the end was priceless 👍👍 well done you for taking the time 🍻

[@gerryoconnor8751]

Agree

[@jimmy.....9446]

Great video. I was in the same “boat !” when making my silage (do we stop or keep going). But I have to say it was great to get it done considering the weather since then. The extra bales will be used sometime.Thanks for keeping the spirits up and great painting by the girls 👏👏👏

[@johnjordan4647]

Hey Adrian have tried going away from the black plastic for silage bales and used white plastic to stop the birds ripping them Here in the Southern Hemisphere nearly all farms use white plastic without bird damage. Thanks for the video

[@antmorgan5255]

Adrian you're message at the end of this video should showing on tv for health and wellbeing of all the farmers that are having a hard time trying to get jobs done. 👍🌻

[@PatrickOLoughlin-w4e]

Hi Adrian Maybe you know already but in cases where we are making silage and it comes to late we leave the stacking till morning. For years the crows would have picked the bales in the fields on us, but a few years ago an neighbour told us to put a few pumps of grease on the tops of the bales and the crows won’t touch them, and it works great. We have made over 350 bales this year so far all first cut last week and used this method and no bales are damaged. Give it a go sometime we do it every time just takes off the pressure a bit. Love your videos. Keep it up!

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Must try that, I’ve a neighbour that also swears by it too 👌👍

[@stephencroft761]

Love your channel, and your accent. (I was born in Oxford and lived out in the country) I’m in the states now, out in the country (out in the country means away from the city) got cotton on two sides, peanuts on another, and a pasture on the fourth. I moved into this house April 22. This year is so much wetter than last here too.

[@aaronsmyth53]

Hi Adrian I started second cut on Monday and land was standing water mower passed away and land was very dirty in places put plowed on got finished slurry out and then rolled in dirty tracks and then on comes more rain. So much for global boiling here in northern Ireland we could export water to rest of the world 😢

[@georgemorrison6689]

Great video, your a great man for showing how difficult farming actually is, far to many people not from a farming back ground are quick to think its a big money spiner, your field looks no worse than any other farms that have had to get on with the weather and the bottom field in your video looks fine, and your right about being demoralising some days you could see it far enough but then new life arrives or the sun comes out and hay presto your back on top of the world doing what you love,

[@dannyjones7181]

You are dead right Adrian no mater how things seem to be as long as they are outside the door you are never to bad !!

[@ianhaggart1438]

Wise words said well sir... 👏 👍🏻 every day people are dealing with problems and some just don't seem to go away ... its better to talk about them better still if its outside leaning on a gate...😊 alot of problems have been solved by help.. stay safe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@rogerbasker6970]

Great video Adrian. Thanks for taking us along. This year has been very challenging to get farming done. Have a great day!

[@therobertsuk8498]

Need to know who gave you those odd sideburns? 😜 Love your blog, my mums aunt and uncle had a dairy farm in Cheshire, cows and geese they had! Spent many a summer holiday over on the farm as a young child! I’m a McNamara by birth, might move over to Ireland next year..

[@IFarmWeFarm]

The side burns get on the Sinead’s ( wife ) nerves so I let them get a little longer every year 😁👌

[@conor-breathnach]

Lovely video, I was half way through typing a comment asking why you didn’t stack them, then you read my mind and answered it 😂

[@kccolby7562]

Wishing you a long visit of the Sun Gods! ❤

[@lindaarmstrongjackman9788]

So much rain! I see your wonderful girls have done a good job with the paint again. I appreciate the effort you put into keeping your farm clean and tidy. ❤️ I hope you get the weather you need ahead. 😊👍👍 Take care of yourself Adrian. 🙏🏻

[@johnperry5102]

if you take a rubber tier and cut it in half you can attach it on a unit you can make and it will clean up your yard nicely and save your back

[@tristangibbs2351]

Summer 07 was our worst picking swaths out of standing water and the silage bales were floating the next day as the ground flooded. We’d also cut rape the day we picked up silage got it in the shed we’re feeling pretty good having got it all cut next day the water was running in the shed and washing it out the door cost a fortune to dry what we had left

[@FamilyFarmingandFun]

We use green plastic in Nz and don’t have a problem with birds. Also we stack our bales on end 2 or 3 high. Your fields will recover I wouldn’t stress. Great video

[@declanconway2903]

Great video again I remember the wet summers of 85 I was building a house and the month of June was very hot and the rain came in July.

[@paddyteresakane4723]

great attuite Adrian

[@homey3051]

Great video Adrian

[@marklynch8291]

Great video Adrian keep up the good work lad love seeing them

[@johnlydon533]

Great video Adrian, bad weather makes it very difficult , not easy to relax when there are things to do, great advice 👍🏼. Lovely paint job by the girls.

[@myfarmingjourney1]

Hey Adrian. Really nice video. On this video I think it was the best footage to see all you'r hills and shapes of fields😃

[@gerryoconnor8751]

Very true Adrian, once the trouble is outside, you'll get over everything else.

[@julianbanbury4038]

Well said Adrian ,well said ….👍

[@michaellafferty6272]

Good for you to get 2nd cut in adrien has been poor summer especially for crop saving but what can you do ,great video

[@radharcanna]

What a difficult summer farmers have had Adrian. At least you got your bales in. Well done to the girls for painting all of them. A very neat job too. You and your wife have obviously passed your work ethic on to them. They’ll be better people for it.

[@ilovetractors40]

We are waiting for weather to clear so we can cut hay. (It started growing in April) 🥲

[@brianlarkin4990]

I’m really enjoying your videos. I’ve never really been into farming until strangely I started playing farm simulator. My grandfather was a farmer but never new him but I’m sure I would have followed in his footsteps

[@IFarmWeFarm]

I think farming sim is great, gets young kids and adults interested in agriculture

[@TheWardagh]

Fair play for the positive message at the end. Very well put and I’m sure widely appreciated. Thank you

[@irishdancer2753]

Your father is correct!! A lot of younger people today do not remember or they weren’t born to remember the past summers and winters!! A lot worse decades agonthan what people are experiencing today, for sure!!! Keep positive thinking…you’ll get through this ~ we all have in the past!

[@thepeoplespal5]

1985 was the death of wee square bales, no hay was made worth talking about. Everyone had to convert to silage whether they liked it or not. A Cousin made his hayfields into pit 1st cut silage mid October of that year. I never made another bale of hay after that.

[@roymclean4763]

I think this year is as bad as 1985 but the equipment is better. We were working with 2 wheel drive tractors and taking a week to do a cut of silage in 85.

[@irishdancer2753]

And I agree, your fam is extremely clean and tidy ~ you should feel proud!

[@O_K_Agri_Videos]

Great video Adrian it was very hard to get silage this year with the rain 🌧 🌧

[@weemarie1137]

Have a look at longhorn Lesters (rescue farm Texas).. they haven't had rain in 3 months. Mother nature is fickle. It'll come right in the end and we learn to work with what we've got eh. 👍from Scotland

[@mikef6816]

2012 was a hell if a bad summer as well Adrian remember been at silage and the land conditions were shocking bad

[@jimgardner9044]

I remember that wet summer your father talks about. Silaging with wet weather gear on became the norm. I was on a farm in Scotland at the time a Claas jag trailed forager behind a Roadless 120 side blowing into Frazer 4 ton single axle trailers. Keep smiling, Jim in NZ.

[@Eamo-21]

Sickening weather. Congrats on 90k.

[@russtattersall2746]

As ever, great editing and perfect choice of music to match the mood of the task being filmed, two key skills often overlooked in making great video content. You make a crap summer still look productive Adrian. Great stuff, good luck to ya.

[@robdixon945]

A wiser word not said Adrian, thanks for the show

[@peterww3106]

Well said Adrian!

[@willyfindlay4398]

I remember 1985 I was at Agricultural College but studying Horticulture. That is the first year I saw round bales of haylage/ silage being bagged by hand just to try and salvage something. Good luck to you and all the other farmers having a frustrating year.😊

[@richardmason2918]

G'day from Canada! I've been watching your videos since last year and have to say...a big well done 👍! As a farmer myself, your triumphs and trials are well understood, universally I'd say, by all farmers. You're making the best of a bad situation (the farmer way 😉) and that is to be commended. Thanks for the wee look at your beautiful countryside and how you manage your neck of the woods. Keep up the good work 😊.

[@darrenpearson4701]

Well said at the end there Adrian! very true words, we should be glad that all we have to worry about is the weather!👍👍

[@MrShaggerohara]

Funny you should mention 1985, a neighbour of mine was just telling me about how bad that year was

[@JohnSAgri]

Keep tearing away Adrian... Same happened me and it does feel gutting but it'll still make good silage... Better too wet than to dry!! :)

[@kieranmcgroary5426]

Well Adrian, very bad weather, it good u got ur silage all wrapped up farmer not happy with wet ground, but that's life, we just got keep on going like soildars, keep the bright side out, great video, chat soon kieran from Laghey donegal town

[@sandymcghee3328]

Brilliant video and great drone footage Adrian good to see you got all the bales of silage in the yard 👍👍👍

[@JohntyNich]

I remember my dad making a silage clamp in the middle of the yard, no walls, precarious rolling, ending up with soil in it as it was a last resort and then using a swill to get it in the byres. We had a heavy wet clay farm in Cumbria and those wet years started the biggest transition to silage. Better times will come around again as your dad says.

[@ciaranconeely8579]

Comment for the algorithm to help the channel 👍.

[@tommitchell1826]

got our silage done Wednesday/thursday morning big relief adrain remember summer off 85 too well

[@quinnofthefin]

You've enough of expanse of concrete that a yard scraper would fair save the back 😊

[@fiat--sg1zw]

Had a tractor scraper for donkey years here. I bought a bucket brush earlier this yr. Best joke we ever got

[@patrickcormack7637]

It sure a mixture of year. I remember 1985. We made small square bales hay Sunday of munster hurling fineal in Cork. Cork beat tipperary. We saved the hay. A lot famers lost the hay.

[@patriciamccormack7626Teashee]

Lovely advice Adrian, your such a wonderful inspiration to others 👍🏆❤

[@roadwarrior8560]

Well done Adrian, this year is nothing compared to '85, we had cattle that winter with their ribs sticking out it was like something you'd see in one of those charity famine adds for Africa, but we got through it and the cattle all recovered. Things are a lot easier now with all the machinery and the round bales. I was just thinking before you said it as you were cleaning up the yard not to be too particular cause there'll be plenty of rain coming to wash it for you! Tillage men are going to have it tough, I can see meal being very expensive next winter with Ukraine going on too, but we'll all battle on and get through it regardless, we shall overcome!!

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Yes meal will definitely get a hike for sure, straw and hay will be hard bought too I’d imagine

[@daviddowling5524]

Can you do a video on your calfs and bo🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@martincraig-je4vo]

Wise words at the end of video Adrian. Great video as always 👀👍👍

[@markcolgan5465]

That's so true adrian. Somebody some where is getting it alot worse than us.

[@stephenp2980]

Hi Adrian, for cleaning the yard my late father used to fill the slurry tanker from the river, turn an old school splash plate upside down and reverse down the yard washing it. Made a great job. Just need somewhere for the water and mess to get away

[@chrislyons6692]

Everybody makes wet silage sometimes that will hardly be the last time for you sure your only s young fella be grand for the dry cows

[@TOPtee34]

Good man you always keep so positive good luck👍

[@richardbaker22]

Great video very wise words at the end

[@briangadsby6653]

Any trouble with crows or rooks pecking the wrap, I put a few bales on top randomly so the birds don't land on the lower ones as they are insecure as they can't see all around them for predators ,Works well here

[@christopherduffy6342]

Great advice at the end we can’t do anything about the weather and it is extremely stressful but as Lon as we are alive and healthy we haven’t really much to complain about

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Very true Christapher

[@tessaelvan5149]

well said, wishing you well and keep doing what you do. thank you

[@agoodbluewilldo8359]

Great advise Adrian. 👏I

[@ginaquincey5905]

Ha, I have a grey horse just like Ruby, I am sure she does it on purpose. It certainly has been a memorable summer, not in a good way!

[@elwynphillips3327]

Great video mate,very thoughtful advice there to,good on you.