FARM UPDATE 193 VISIT FLOODED FARMS IN LINCOLNSHIRE

[@Ady_Rickell]

Please get the EA on a waffle for a friendly chat. How do farmers cope with the stress, worry and cost of floods. Respect to young Henry for carrying on.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

I bet they would refuse,

[@yammyharrone]

​@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Perhaps you could oust them by featuring your attempts to contact them on your videos? You might be able to dodge legalities by labelling it a review?

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

@yammyharrone 👌😄

[@davidhall8995]

0:59

[@revman417]

Nice to see David again, used to work for him many moons ago. Brilliant guy and a very good farmer.

[@richardmatthews3304]

Really good update andrew, your doing a good job expaining the effects of flooding on crops and wildlife, 👍

[@yammyharrone]

I think the worst part about this is the sheer helplessness. I watched your last video in tears and this video is no different. I'm a simple plant operator. When farmers can do nothing wtf can I do!?! I help the farmers around me by volunteering my time to help keep up with thing but it feels like so little, and so insignificant against the unrelenting tossers in power, and when you guys have already lost so much I don't know how anyone could help. Why in gods name is the government/Rishi Sunak not jumping on this like the national disaster it is? Why is this not in the headlines? Why are the EA not facing charges of criminal negligence? Because that's an understatement for what those wastes of oxygen are responsible for! Ah jeez this is just cutting me up inside! My heart goes out to you guys.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Thank you. We are a lone voice, London and other cities don’t care what goes on in the countryside but they would if they didn’t have any food. This country is going down hill fast.

[@yammyharrone]

​​@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard I don't think it even has anything to do with food. Much like the EA, everyone seems to have an attitude of 'Oh, someone else will sort it or the insurance companies will', however if such a scenario happened to them my god how the world would end! I think the disinterest and negligence is so criminal that people must be held to account. Will they though? Of course not, but if farmers put even a grain or stalk of straw in the wrong place all the authorities come down on them! Where is the justice? Where is the logic? Where is the accountability? The whole system is so shameful.

[@bumpkinrocks]

It's amazing how much water fell around the country. We missed nearly all of it. Had some rain last night but the grounds still soaking it up as ditches are still dry.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Tomorrow’s rain has reduced considerably.

[@DarrenPhillips001]

I admire all your stoicism. Not sure I personally could cope with that devastation. I truly hope you will be able to salvage something or replant other crops. Take care Andrew & others.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

👍😄

[@johnhyde8892]

I think it's time to Bang the drum to the environment agency, to demand action and let the farmers manage the water ways land and control the water. It would be good to get them down, to answer the question on flooding issues 😞

[@amunford-gibbs929]

Thankyou Andrew for recording this, I'm sure they have plenty here to televise a special program, highlight everything for all to see again! Can't imagine how you manage to sleep at night...

[@ianatkinson9227]

Exactly right get the water out to the sea😊

[@amShorifulAlomRobelSAR]

It’s very sad, however wish to explore Lincolnshire during my stay in January at NHS

[@Easydrillman]

They used to call this scale of flooding.. a 1 in 100 year event... but now we get it every four years.. I did the IDB pump operative training some 15 - 20 years ago.. I now regularly help out, when needed. I know where you are coming from, regarding the EA lack of communication... same story here

[@anthonypert574]

Oh that year yeah

[@michaellane9873]

It's no wonder there's so many mental health problems in farming with these issues all the time, well Andrew for doing your bit and fingers crossed for all the farmers that have been hit by these floods.

[@simonrobb5526]

Mental health problems are because farmers are forcing animals they have raised to their death at the slaughterhose. What a horrid thing to do to an animal.

[@davidhall8995]

Just watched on talk tv the environment secretary talk utter bollocks about the rain coming from the wrong way, Ireally sympathise you and your fellow farmers.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

I saw that, unbelievable and we have people like that controlling our industry. 😡😡😡

[@RG-mk3ds]

Well presented Andrew. The unaccountability of the EA is truly awful.

[@simonrobb5526]

We aren't buying it! Farmers, "victim" touting as usual. Farmers are the cause of the problems! "Animal agricuture is a leading cause of climate change."

[@jaylewjangoo]

Very Very Sad ,What a flipping state of affairs,Thank you for posting.

[@JohnnyMotel99]

I was living in the Dordogne area, around 2007/8 and the Dordogne river burst it's banks. The fields were flooded for as far as you could see. Everything from arable to vineyard.

[@gregrot]

I'm no great lover of the environment agency however, they have had their budgets cut by over half, since 2013. That's meant cut backs in staff and services, to the detriment of all of us but, especially farmers. This Government just doesn't seem to have any answers, to anything.

[@roberthiggins6401]

We're they any better when they had a bigger budget? I'd bet they weren't. What sickens me is they didn't prepare, are uncontactable, and farmers are uninsured because there isn't any insurance. Seems all on its head, cards all stacked in one direction and those (in authority) are unaccountable! Where do you go? It's corrupt to the core! Slightest infringement by anyone and the force of the (so called law) will be down on you like a tonne of bricks! Yet look at the devastation to wildlife, crops, infrastructure. IMO the ea and gov should be sued and the ea taken back in the hands of those that care and know what to do.

[@stanleyjulian8619]

But they keep buying or leasing new machinery. Park in they yards not being used. That’s nothing to do with budget but lack of organisation to the basics

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Totally agree. We can’t do any thing. 😡

[@ericwilson5742]

I feel for those fellas Andrew heartbreaking good of you to show the real pitcture of what’s happening and how government agencies treat us farmers maybe they want no farmers times I think

[@carladams1363]

Excellent video Andrew . Hats off to the two Henry's and David . Years ago I done some work with the EA what a Bunch of F in Idiots ! All they were worried about was who had the cleanest truck and what time it was before home time .

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😡😡

[@davidwilson2977]

EA should start listening to people, its so heart breaking to see those farms flooded. I don't understand with the machine's and technology in today's world these things shouldn't be happening on this scale, when years back rivers and ditches were cleared and the flooding was not as bad.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

The so called desk experts think they know better than farmers

[@roberthoward3723]

Farmers have produced top quality food cheaply which has created an indolent nation. Let’s hope somebody may learn from your videos.

[@chrisnichols5208]

Morning another great update so pleased you added this so people can see what you are up against my question is is this rain water what caused the flooding or mass covering of industrial buildings houses from further away causing the rivers to overflow or the environment agency not doing their job be interested in your thoughts Andrew from the retired farmer.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Both but lack of maintenance of rivers is a huge contributing factor.

[@robertduffin455]

Brilliant video just shows you what the government is doing for British people none of them are worth voting for My Dad worked on one Estate for sixty years there was good estate management all based round the pheasant shooting season As a kid growing up there was plenty wildlife and the owners were ambassadors for the country side As my dad said we’ve got to go backwards to go forward KEEP BANGING ON THE NAIL 👍

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

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[@julianchambers8372]

Brill info mate, thanks

[@williamburns9731]

Flooding is definitely destructive and financially effects income. Back in the 1950s & 60s on the farm grew upon, we some years would have upto 6 floods a year, however on a positive my father would say,a good flood is as good as a bag of superphosfate to the acre. But now in Australia where heading back into drought again. All the best boys.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

👍😄

[@georgechilcott859]

Funny they start cleaning ditch’s after the flood 😂

[@treve2627]

ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC. The work and sales required to help recover the losses is enormous. It must be a very difficult decision to risk planting this land in the future. Our thoughts go out to these farmers and their families.

[@BrunyeeSalers]

Bless all the farmers affected. We have a Wessex Water borehole adjoining our farm, so we are a NVZ area and controlled in what we can do - yet those that benefit are the private water companies. I can’t comment on the EA for FEAR of retaliation…….

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😡😡

[@charleswillcock3235]

It is truly heart breaking to see farms like this under water. The sea level is rising. The air is getting warmer, which means it can carry more moisture - these flooding events will only become more frequent in the future. 26% of Netherlands is below sea level. Lincolnshire farmers and others in low lying areas need to look there for ideas. My experience of politicians and people employed by the Government suggests farmers will have to push very hard and ideally run drainage schemes yourselves, with funding coming from the Govt. if any improvement in the future is to come. Telling a farmer he cannot run a pump because he has not been trained is truly insulting, farmers have to know how to run a huge range of machinery.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

So true.

[@michaelatack4644]

I used to live next to the River Calder years ago and the authorities then would go up with a barge chopping trees and bushes etc to speed the flow up on a regular basis , how things have changed now nimbys are running the show

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Totally.

[@michaelatack4644]

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard the thing that makes me mad is I’m no engineer but if I need to shift more fluids at a faster rate I would use a bigger pipe or dig a deeper trench like we all did on the beach as kids.

[@philipmetcalfe6289]

So so hard to watch. Can't imagine how I'd feel if I was affected in the same way. Hats off to all in the waffle, still relatively upbeat. Sure they maybe have darker moments off camera !

[@philipwatts992]

Hart breaking Andrew thoughts from Australia

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

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[@Hesston4860s]

Where I live right next to the River Skirth at the top of my road it was impassable on Friday due to the whole corner being totally flooded !. Now I know for a fact if the EA did there job properly and properly weed cut the river, it wouldn’t be that way but the EA just clip the tops off the reeds !. I do also know a little of what I’m talking about as I’m a digger driver and quite frequently do weed cutting !.

[@nickw6304]

It would be interesting to see what the Dutch make of the EA’s approach to water management.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

I would love to see that too!

[@spencerchurchyard7755]

Very good but sad video, I could see you were biting your tong in places, a professional interview with the other Farmers. Very hard @ this time of year with flooding across the whole of the UK. Look forward to a more normal video if there is one.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Thank you, very sad.

[@julianchambers8372]

I always was under the impression that they drained the Witham when flooding is imminent. In your opinion could this situation have been prevented or at least be the effects reduced.? I can come and give you a hand if required.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

The height they keep the water depends on the time of year. I’ve found something out today and will include it on Sunday which help to answer your question.

[@mikereekie4948]

Heart-Breaking. We know how you feel, we are situated between Brechin and Forfar, unprecedented flooding over the weekend.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

We’ve been watching you on the news, thinking of you.

[@paulmoore8520]

It's shocking if the farmers were Allowed to maintain the drainage Over the summer! They are litterly drowning in red tape😩 Excellent pod cast

[@jamesmccambridge7457]

Wonderful video, but very sad Andrew, I feel sorry for those farmers, they are getting no help, but do you know what given half a chance they will fight back again, your a wonderful man Andrew for exposing all this disaster, l Day Andrew for Prime minister , but then we wou!d have no watch videos😂😥

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

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[@TheJuniorFarmer724]

Hi Andrew, I’m back! Sorry for it being a while. Greta update I’ll try and get time to watch all your other videos too. Would you be interested in me coming and doing some farm photography at your farm at some point? Free of charge of course!

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

👍

[@bobcrawford2105]

Drainage needs to be run and controlled by local people who know the area’s. As for training start a water pump my mind boggles would have thought it would entail pushing a button and maybe opening a valve Sorry state of affairs at moment

[@roberthiggins6401]

It really can't be rocket science, can it. If anyone had done it though, hell to pay, even if it had helped.

[@michaelatack4644]

Exactly 👍🏻 a lot of the countryside ways and upkeep are passed on from generation to generation with the skills to go with it. Not from some flipping computer program 🙆🏻‍♂️

[@riggers6214]

The lack of foresight and intervention by the EA along with their apparent unwillingness to engage with the Drainage Board and Farmers is shocking and shameful! When you consider the flooding of the Somerset Levels in the winter of 2013/14 was widely acknowledged as being due to the lack of dredging of the River Parrett and other Drains in the preceding years, it beggars belief that 10 years later they are equally culpable for this situation in n Lincolnshire! I don’t know whether to commiserate with you all or congratulate you on your fortitude and resolve. Whichever is more appropriate, thank you and good luck to you all👏🙏

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

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[@jimwadland7728]

We have a similar situation albeit on grassland bu because I know the river well I know when to move the stock to higher ground (we’re lucky to be able to do that) the ea once told me they could send me a text to advise when we would flood and I told them by the time they realised it the sheep would be dead. Most of us farming remember the river when it was managed properly, then came along the EA which is staffed by halfwits with degrees that know nothing about rivers and maintenance of them and are generally arrogant to boot. 22:58

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

They are clueless.

[@hugobosswood9002]

This was more deliberate than people think

[@danwillmott4628]

If you have major rainfall events, no amount of technology and pumps can cope with this, the river is full, so how will the water get away to Boston? Thoughts on a post card

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😂😂 Have you heard of dredging/de-silting??!!

[@danwillmott4628]

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Andrew I fully agree, I come from a farming family on the other side of the fens, I am not a farmer but a civil engineer. If the water level at Boston is almost equal to the area you visited today, the river how ever much you dredge it will not lower, plus if all the IDB pumps run at the same time, the river level will not lower, and if the IDB pumps nearer Boston are working overtime, any water pumped up around Lincoln into the river will have no place to go apart from over topping into fields and water meadows (which I understand may now be cropped). Please note I am not a fan of the EA, that is another story I follow your KZbin channel, very informative, keep it up.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Thanks Dan. Lincolnshire rivers are flat and so not only for moving water, they also for holding water. If you half fill a pint glass with sand, it will only hold half its capacity, empty that sand, it will hold its capacity. The rivers are the same. I don’t think it’s a coincidence flooding has got worse since river maintenance has stopped.

[@robjones3132]

Its heartbreaking to see and certainly heartbreaking to hear from your god son who is just waiting for that bank to go and history to repeat. To pick up on what the first Henry said which i think is a great point that if it was a housing estate they would be screaming at ea, as a non farmer i would still be very happy to pick up the phone or an email to ea on behalf of farmers but most non farmers are so divorced from the situation until its in there living room they dont care but then still complain about food prices. If 10 acres of land is underwater its 1 voice if 10 acres of housing estate is underwater its say 100 voices but more than 100 peoples worth of food is effected by that land there needs to be a reconnect between us and all back farmers against ea i just dont see a way to do that. My heart, respect and admiration goes out to all farmers

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Thank you Rob. It’s so difficult to get anyone to listen. There’s no wonder more farmers take their life than any other industry. You are spot on with all your points.

[@andyhutch8262]

HEART BRAKING.

[@hectorkidds9840]

At the end of the day, the EA do what government tells and funds them to do. Most of the flood defence/land drainage schemes were last reengineered in the 1950s to 1980s, climate change means the systems are less effective now than when built. With about 1m of sea level rise by 2100, and more winter rain year on year, we either need to invest in these systems or accept that farming in our most productive arable areas will become uneconomic due to ever more frequent floods. We need governments with a long term plan.

[@voxxag8054]

It boggles the mind why these rivers aren’t dredged any more or banks aren’t increased especially with the known flash flooding that’s a more regular occurrence than it once was. Short sighted from EA and government policy.

[@stephensmith4449]

Hi would you know if the flood banks on the farms you visited where built by dredging the rivers ? That is what they did on the river Idle around the village where i live in back in the 70 . Great for 30 years no flooding now since 2000 the river is now silted up reed bed have grown out in to river and flooding is more likely to happen , and that is whats happening today Dredging works lets get on with it ?

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

They weren’t done with dredgings but they are the same as yours, silted up.

[@markh5433]

It’s about time all the Farmers stood up and sent footage and more important Bills for all the damage

[@benbradley1295]

When are you getting your entrance wall fixed Wardy been a while now

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

When the builder says he’ll do it!

[@KenDutchFarmKenya]

Your new subscriber! sorry guyz about the floods.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Welcome!

[@stacyscholes6760]

Joe seals over in Barnsley fields flooded an cattle trapped 😳

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😄😢

[@geoffreymoore2204]

Surely now the farmer in jail should be released straight away an offered a job at the top of clearing rivers for water service because he being forgotten

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

He is out now, he didn’t stay in for long due the uproar.

[@elmton.john.1961.]

That's good to hear Mr Ward, I've often thought about him, I wish him well if he sees this.

[@Hope-tg1jj]

With that many ditches and pumps you must have enormous pumping costs ?

[@RussellLister-gu8yf]

I don’t know what to say, I feel for anyone affected by the flooding. I only wish the environment agency would listen to the farmers who live and work in these areas, all their life’s. I can feel the frustration the farmers are feeling. The environment agency have got to be accountable for this type of devastation, in this day and age there is to much behind desktop pen pushing management and no practical knowledge, within these organisations.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Well put.

[@deannamoreton8253]

my cousin Dave is driving that digger ....

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😊👍

[@chloe-yv3ir]

Could the nfu not approach the environmental select committee for a review into the performance of the ea ?

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

I think that’s next.

[@Gazdavies48]

Years of underinvestment from Government, cut backs, and no accountability = disaster

[@gunton21]

Spot on

[@Hope-tg1jj]

Prayers to all farmers, that you guys survive a hit like that 🙏

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😄👍

[@duckydashcam751]

Fiskerton was advised to be evacuated a few days after this was posted due to the degregation of the bank...that just says it all doesn't it.

[@markh5433]

Funny how you never see the EA when these floods happen, but as soon as you do anything IE Ditching, digging stream out, they appear

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Too right, they are unreal.

[@nickevans7265]

The government has been to busy wasting money on high speed rail, rather than on infrastructure that needs it

[@jondeer-ce7if]

The EA need to drop the easy (lazy) mantra of slowing water flow down with reeds, fallen trees etc. Dykes and ditches were dug by hand 100's of years ago, I'm sure all the effort put in to do a such a good job was justfied, lets at least honour our forefathers by maintaining them (mechanically)

[@Harry-zz8qn]

What some water

[@geraintowen9909]

Cut the reeds but what about the silt I'm the bottom?

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

They are done every year so they don’t have chance to silt up and any they does build up is only small and the weed basket does it.

[@johnrichardson4335]

For 8 years the EA tried to stop me and my neighbours digging Bottesford beck out. 8 years is a long time been flooded but they didn’t give a toss . Then when we finally got the license to do it at are own expense they took all the credit for the first sightings of kingfishers for years.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😡😡😡

[@jonstephens682]

Cracking update Andrew, but what a nightmare for you all the damage is unrepairable really and the EA need a good kick up the ass. Feel for you all mate.

[@jonstephens682]

Keep it up Andrew they need nameing and shaming, like he said if it was a housing estate there there would be shouting about it.

[@jackiewatson3789]

It’s awful. I thought my flooded beet headlands were bad enough, but this is a catastrophe. Farmers are being sacrificed to protect built up areas.

[@johnkeynes8873]

Same old news from the authorities (oh yeah we should have done that well get on to it.) and it never happens 😢

[@Cheechltd]

Andrew, do you have a solution besides contacting goth EA, can they upgrade the systems ?very interesting to hear your thoughts , thanks

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

They don’t have any systems to upgrade apart from the people making decisions! Rivers need maintenance, simple, spending thousands of £ re-homing badgers is a prime example.

[@riggers6214]

Oh Andrew, the sound/microphone gremlin got you again!😢

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

I used the external mic for all but 1 clip.

[@riggers6214]

​Seems to be working now - sorry

[@angelawilson1338]

I heard that 80% of farming land in the UK is flooded - do you think this is a deliberate attempt to destroy the food supply? Do the farmers know about geo-engineering and HARRP?

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Flooded means it’s underwater. That’s not correct at all. Wet and saturated, yes, but not flooded, there’s a huge difference.

[@simonsturrock1327]

Heartbreaking watching this

[@phiran_uk1573]

Hard to know what yo say .... and how to raise awareness of this in London.... how ??

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Don’t know, need to get them out of their warm, dry office and on the flooded farms. They have no idea.

[@phiran_uk1573]

Can't the nfu and CLA and the other organisations come together and drag the environment agency into court for neglect of their duty of care

[@theturnip8288]

Am I being stupid or is that water in the first clip just getting pumped round in a circle?

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

It is If the bank is leaking but the water being pumped has come from another river which over topped.

[@andrewmaccall5871]

As you say - What can you say.

[@stacyscholes6760]

SHAME ON THE ENVIRONMENT AGENCY AGAIN NO HELP FOR THE FARMERS AGAIN

[@stanleyjulian8619]

Another basic problem with the EA cannot or will not act quickly on the change of the weather. No one at the EA will take any responsibility on decisions like a farmer or any self employed person does on a hourly basis. All ok having people in charge with degrees if they not any common sense to act and make decisions

[@waynesallotment7757]

I think the EA should answer some questions about all this fooling, I don't know how you farmers cope with stress and worry.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

It’s not easy.

[@SamanthaStrudwick]

environment agency needs replacing period....

[@johnwilliams7653]

Please do not blame the wild life nor the environmentalists. The mess the 4 Nations of the "UK" are in is our fault. Our fault for having sleepwalked into a post-democratic disaster. The real problem is not the pumps to push the water out to sea: it is the inability of the people to push the politicians out of office. We need a balanced approach: food production and wildlife; responsible stewardship of the land & the environment. This is never going to happen while we have the FPTP system which encourages imbalance. The goons in the EA can only do what their political lords & masters decree. Abolish the lords & change the masters. Then we may start to address the deeply embedded lunacies (such as where a competent man can not run a pump in time of flood, nor dig ditches before winters' rains). It has taken decades to destroy the body-politic in the interests of unbridled greed. It will take decades more to achieve a new stability: decades we do not have unless we get on quickly - or the planet will solve the issue with the next mass extinction: we will go extinct & deserve to. Pity should be reserved for the many species we take with us.

[@charleswillcock3235]

Italy is not a great example where proportional representation has delivered a different government every 1.1 years. Not a great system for long term planning.

[@johnwilliams7653]

So? What would you have? PR-based democracy, in my opinion, is better than what we have at the moment which is definitely & obviously failing us. PR should reflect & give representation to people in proportion to the commonality of their views. FPTP gives long periods of power to right-wing grifters, interspersed with short periods of pink tories such as Blair was & Starmer wishes to be. An unelected 2nd chamber packed with place-men is even less appealing than the proper hereditary Lords were. To accept the status quo is to guarantee more floods unpumped, the accelerating demise of the NHS, the collapse of state education, more party-gates, more failures to face up to each challenge as they occur: are you happy with such a future? As for PR not being great for long term planning: what planning other than conspiracies to profiteer, defraud & cheat have we now? We cannot even build a railway, let alone run it. The Italians have & do, as have & do several other non-totalitarian states. I repeat my question 'what would you have?' Doing nothing while the poor, the young, the sick, the elderly, anyone vulnerable & not rich suffer unnecessarily is not merely unacceptable it is offensive.@@charleswillcock3235

[@garyreid7865]

sepa and ea dont help , lets us clean out the rivers and streams ,

[@petergardner2334]

heart breaking

[@rupertm2542]

Both farmers and EA are to blame unfortunately. I’ve noticed an increase in contract farming in my area, with land owned by people who own no agri kit. Therefore the contractors have no interest in keeping ditches clear and the people that own the land seem not care. The EA, are atrocious at keep rivers clear, and spend far too much time listening to eco idiots who’ve got no idea!

[@grandpaandlucas7054]

Plenty of spuds in Europe. if British farms cant supply stop their subsidies and load trucks and import. thousands of farms dont produce and draw subsidies. good arable farms have switched to milk production for more money and put smaller dairy farms out off business. prices shouldn't go up because you claim there's going to be a shortage of produce but exports of cereal and vegetables still happens. sadly British supermarkets don't buy quality produce at a good price from farmers so if your produce makes a higher price to a buyer to export. the British government think its better to send millions abroad instead of sorting our problems out. 40 years ago the river board properly had 3 office staff to 10 men on the ground, now its 10 office staff to 3 men on the ground. same money spent less action. Biggest construction job in the uk, HS2 in a complete mess. not the men on the doing the job but the suits in offices all drawing mega wages and bleeding the pot dry.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

You clearly aren’t aware subsidies have dropped 50 % and gone totally in 3 years time. Every household benefited from subsidies farmers received by keeping food prices low. You mention import food, that’s fine if you want to eat food grown with products and methods banned here, that’s been happening and increasing. We export about 3 m tons of cereals a year but very little veg and some years our cereals don’t meet export standards and if the weather is bad at harvest we have to import more high protein wheat from Canada, France and Germany.

[@minidigger1000]

Andrew don't get it your last video you were giving out about red tractor and the start of this video is an advert about red tractor

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Not sure what you mean. RT isn’t mentioned in the flooding update.

[@minidigger1000]

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard it was the last video you didn't go into detail but you did mention r/t I'm not complaining only having a bit of a rant

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

@minidigger1000 😂👍

[@barrytipton1179]

Just to annoy you RedTractor slipped a advertisement in

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😂😂

[@andrewvaughan265]

Would the NFU be able to help with the EA not fit for purpose?. Let the farmers look after their own ditches and flood management. This needs to be on all Social platforms the EA are useless and needs to be replaced.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

We have to get a licence to clean our own dykes out!! 😡😡

[@dinotuber955]

Think the EA needs to take a good look at themselves and look how they conduct themselves and stop listening to so called eco warriors and listen to the people that care

[@penningtoncolin]

But what can you do the EA won't listen because of do gooders, how can you make the EA listen to farmers, they need to dredge rivers its obvious

[@Frank-mn9qi]

To many pen pushers in the EA

[@farmerfuller87]

If the EA big wigs lost a pound of there bonus for every litre of water flooded you wouldn’t be doing this video they had a weeks warning 🤣😂🤣

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😂

[@davidmilward9232]

ea should be disbanded

[@davidmilward9232]

cant clean up you go to prison

[@davidmilward9232]

ea really crap

[@willyfindlay4398]

Wait till you get Beavers 🦫 in your dykes.😊