FARM UPDATE 168 HARVEST 2023 DAY 1.

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.
Farm tours links:
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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[@riggers6214]

It must be really satisfying at harvest time to see the outcome of all yours and your colleagues endeavours throughout the year - especially in the light of all the adversaties of bad weather and spiralling costs for fertilisers and fuel. Hope the yield and prices reward you all properly. As a consumer, thank you for all the hard work of the whole farming community. PS - found the discussion on Beans with the guy from Warwick University very interesting.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Thanks for your comments, pleased you liked the bean vid!

[@robertallen3441]

Good to be able to watch from the comfort of my armchair. I had too many years of messing around in the dust!!!!

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😀👍

[@PA3456]

What an awesome setup

[@RonHelton]

👍👍👍👍👍👍🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶 Harvest time is the best time!

[@kevinharker1840]

Excellent video, well explained, keep it simple.

[@roberthoward3723]

Good to see a NH combine at work and the quality of the sample.

[@eQualizeri]

Seeing combine working on a field is so satisfying.

[@paulmoore8520]

The unsung hero of the harvest season the Food and drinks supplier 👍

[@leecurry14]

Brilliant start to harvest, watching this really makes me miss harvest, keep us updated on progress 😎😎😎👍

[@PeterHughes]

Great camera footage. If you sit on the header and record it. I'll buy you all a beer. 🙂 Awesome camera work. 👍🏻

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Cheers Peter, the iPhone 14 pro camera is unreal. I’ll pass on your suggestion thanks!!!!

[@peterhowells1150]

As a livestock farmer I'm crying seeing the straw been chopped as I need the bedding

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

There’s three reasons why we chop. 1. We have a zero tolerance to Blackgrass and spend £35,000 a year on hand pulling and bakers are one of the worst machines for moving Blackgrass from Farm to farm. 2. We are always trying to improve organic matter and Straw has huge value to do that. 3. This Harvest been interrupted by rain, the Straw trails are continually getting wet and have to be moved before bailed, causing compaction and the delay to cultivation and establishing the next Crop. I do appreciate you need straw though and I think there’s enough straw being baled to fulfill demand.

[@andrewmaccall5871]

Great to get started - at moment you've caught the better weather.

[@davidcollingwood1262]

Nice to see your combine finally at work. Good video footage too. 🚜🚜

[@antonylane2837]

Excellent footage Andrew. Wish you well with the rest of your harvest. 👍

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

👌👍😀

[@matthewhodder3029]

Good to see that you've got going. Well done all

[@jaylewjangoo]

Excellent video fantastic to see the start to your harvest and wishing you all the very best for the coming days Thankyou.

[@funsi3]

Have a safe harvest, here's hoping the weather plays ball better than it has been.

[@daviddawson2210]

Thanks for the update Andrew. Great to see you've got started on your harvest and hopefully the weather stays good and you can keep the wheels rolling thanks again.

[@markrichardson1455]

Good to see the combine rolling Andrew. Even though it's 41 years since the NCB purchased our farm for open casting, (coal extraction) we were tenants so powerless to stop it, but i still remember clearly the buzz and anticipation of the first day of harvest. For me personally there's no other job like it, i spent 22 years as a coal miner and over 19 years with the NHS, but neither compare with farming . Hope the weather allows the combines to keep rolling as you all need a break, but most importantly, stay safe.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Wow, greet sentiments and thank you.

[@EldoCodes]

That New Holland goes quick!

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

It does when the crops aren’t very heavy!

[@mikereekie4948]

Thats a great video. Good luck to you, hope it's a trouble-free wheat harvest for u all. Cheers.

[@philipcounsell3533]

Brilliant video Andrew , very satisfying to watch . I think all the crops have suffered this year, solely down to the weather. 👍👍

[@juliancope1925]

Love watching the combine video’s brilliant

[@paulstorer6937]

Good to see Harvest underway for you Andrew. 👍

[@keithhill3027]

Hope you have a successful harvest Andrew,excellent video as always.

[@melvingduncan]

It's heart warming Andrew to start one's harvest with the sun high in the sky and the crop dry and we ready to go. It's a real difficult harvest here with combines being rained of almost every day we go out. My own experience this year has been take a loss with high moisture or loss tonnes to the weather, so 24+% it was with 19% being the lowest. But hi great video and as always very informational, a safe and prosperous harvest to you all.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Thank you.

[@cartech22]

Really really enjoyed that! Great to see you getting into harvest.

[@robertsmith9810]

Take heart i know the weather has not bean ideal ,but their is only one harvest never bean harvested

[@falklandswar2]

Love the combine mate

[@davidwilson2977]

Pleased to see you have started Andrew, hoping it stays fine and dry for a good few day's. Stay safe as this can be a very stressful and tiring time over the next month or two.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Thank you.

[@joel8340.]

Nice to see youve started. We started our wheat today after nonstop rain its quite flat and starting to grow. Year before last we changed our combine to a much larger one and this year its really paying for itself. Hope your harvest goes smooth and yeilds are good.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

I think it’s the one machine which should be over capacity

[@SpudSlingsby]

The key is also having over capacity infrastructure to keep a big combine moving, I see a lot on social media parked with a full tank waiting for trailers

[@bobcrawford2105]

Good to see you’ve got combine going and harvest is being brought home. That Puma sounds the dogs bollocks

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

It does, it’s been a good tractor apart from front hubs cracking due to dual wheels on the front, we don’t anymore!

[@jonstephens682]

Cracking video Andrew and really glad you’ve got going with harvest and let’s hope the weather is kind to you now for a while so you can crack on and get some combing done, it’s a shame I’m all the way in cornwall because I’d definitely have one off those boxes off sugar sticks for the restaurant, but you never know I may be passing at some point to collect one 😂

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Call in!

[@raymondcarroll1670]

Great to see your harvest started, today should have been the last day cutting winter wheat for me but it was wet

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

You’ve had rain?😖😖😖😖

[@Military-Museum-LP]

Why didn’t you go with the Draper/header?

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

We don’t have one

[@michaelcard9288]

Good morning have a good day Wots the mostger

[@markyoull6744]

great video no better sit than a combine at it

[@petecag9117]

Hi Andrew your calculation might be a little wrong I think of a sq foot to sq meter. 3ft by 3ft equals a meter so roughly 9 square foot in a meter not 3 at 0.3m squared in the calculation. Very informative videos well done

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

You’re right!

[@laytonphillips6667]

Great to see you started andrew , matt a harvest student? Hope the combine runs better than last year.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

No, he’s been helping us at least 10 years. I’ll introduce him next vid!

[@ebxo269]

Pidgeon's are gonna have a banquit.

[@aaronswanson6719]

Hope getting hit with the combine chaff wasn’t too uncomfortable for the rest of the day 😬

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😂😂 itchy!!

[@kevinburdon8860]

How many acres do you farm ?

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

If you watch updates 64,65 and 66 you’ll see everything about the farm.

[@s.a.efarming5857]

You'd be trying hard to find a CR 9090 as clean as yours nowadays. Just goes to show that caring for your machines properly pays off

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Definitely, it’s never outside worst from when it’s working and at night.

[@michaelminers2612]

Do you chop all the straw? Long stubble looks like ?

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Stubble always quite short and always chop. Will go into detail in next vid.

[@andymercer8092]

Bet your pleased to be cutting something. look some good crops

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Very pleased! The light land wheat suffered from the dry May and June and wet July, weather totally wrong way round.

[@michaelminers2612]

How many acres total?

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

1500 combinable. You need to watch the farm your vids!

[@michaelminers2612]

Sorry, I posted both of at the start, my apologies. Thanks for the exclamation mark though

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Sorry, a typo from me! Farm updates 64, 65 and 66 go into a lot of detail about the farm, machinery and cropping.

[@michaelminers2612]

Excellent, thank you, I'll definitely go back, all yours are really interesting thanks very much for them 😀

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Thank you.

[@Military-Museum-LP]

New subscriber here. Do you have an email?

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Sorry but I get up to 60 emails every day I struggle to cope with the volume so prefer not to receive any more! Thanks for subscribing, if you watch updates 64,65 and 66 you’ll get a flavour of the farm layout.