FARM UPDATE 29

[@robertallen3441]

I live a few miles from Wickhambrook. Great to see the sucess that Jeff and his team has had from the early days of the Yield-o-meter and Furrow Cracker, right up to the Direct drills of today. A great advert for British farmers and manufacturing.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

A really nice chap, I’ve known him years but only bought a straw Harrow last summer. We had a furrow cracker too, but used the Griffith Elder Yorks meter.

[@jsvecten]

Haa the Simba days! God old Simon nice to see him ploughing on! 😉

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

A real Simba stalwart! 👍😃

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Hope you’re ok, good to see you!

[@SAB_Agri]

Super vid Andrew,, I enjoyed the factory tour 🤙🤙👍👍

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

We really enjoyed going round, the presentation really got the grey cells ticking!

[@matthewhodder3029]

Another informative video from you Mr Ward. It is like being back at college. Thank you

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

I can’t think I’d make a good lecturer!

[@daviddawson2210]

Thanks for the midweek update Andrew I’m not a farmer but still found it interesting. Great to see a British company making and exporting equipment to Europe .Thanks again .

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Cheers David. 👍

[@laytonphillips6667]

Great information video Andrew, really interesting. Great looking machines.

[@jhlane1977]

Brilliant video Andrew. Claydon open days always worth a visit and as a family always amiable to look around. Many of my customers use the Claydon system here in Suffolk and find it is really effective.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Jeff Claydon a real nice guy, could sell ice cubes to an Eskimo!!

[@johnspibey783]

Thank you to all at Claydon for letting us see round your works, this type of drill could definitely save on fuel and be better for the land in the long term.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Here here! 👌😃

[@MrJake1971]

excellent video Andrew good to see UK company doin well

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

👌😃👍

[@andrewj7994]

I am always impressed with farmers who are good at cropping. I am mostly cattle, if things go wrong I sell a few or take a lower margin, i can control my costs and roll with the punches, but you guys are trapped in high cost systems, the thought makes me shiver. Very few farmers around here make a go of cropping, perhaps some guy's selling squash to Japan and apple growers but they are almost all corporate these days, using imported cheap labour. I do have a small vineyard and that has been a place where good money follows bad. I pulled the pin and fortunately I had no debt. Do you think the future is getting harder to see through the for of authoritarian Gov't? Im about to start paying nearly £50 a hectare in carbon taxes and that the starting point, government needs to get out of the way of family farms and stop the corporate takeover, not just farms but nearly every part of our lives. Im in NZ.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Thanks for your message, some really interesting points. Not sure what it’s like in NZ but here, 82% of farmers don’t know their costs apparently. With nitrogen rising 300+ % and fuel 200%, training profitable is going to be tough. Our government are not interested in supporting uk produced food and more intent on doing things for the environment and wildlife at the expense of food. I sat through a Defra presentation last week on Zoom and in the 15 slides, food was only mentioned once and that was in Defra’s name!🤦‍♂️

[@thomasbray8409]

Claydon Certainly the way forward we are in our third year with a 3m mounted on 300acre never looked back. Wish we did it years ago could of saved a fortune. Top video really enjoyed it haven't had chance to visit claydon factory/yet hopefully this summer 🤞

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Pleased you enjoyed it. I’d forgotten Jeff invented the combine weigher until he told us the other day! Our fields look good at the moment. Hope you manage to get to the factory, they start the new shed in March.

[@roberthiggins6401]

That was very interesting Andrew. I think I prefer wet paint too powder coated as powder coat just peels off once it starts to deteriorate, wet just fails in spots.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Thanks Robert, that’s interesting. When we were at Chafer sprayers 3 weeks ago, they said powder coating was better, but Jeff Claydon and Sands sprayers said wet paint was better!!! Sands will feature in this Sundays waffle, 👍😃

[@andymercer8092]

Very interesting, never knew Claydon had anything to do with yield meters.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

I’d forgotten until Jeff told us!

[@robertrevell2573]

Simon Revell is my brother, hello Simon 👋. Top bloke, although I would say that. 😀

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Get away!! I’ve known Simon many years, travelled to lots of countries with him on Simba duties had many laughs, top top bloke!

[@robertrevell2573]

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard I work down at sandringham and the farm manager and myself spend the first ten minutes on a Monday morning discussing you waffles, there brilliant 👍

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

That’s great to hear and thank you for watching. I wonder what tomorrow mornings verdict will be! A few years ago I tried to buy the 8m Freeflow your farm had as it was one of the last ones built. I spoke to the manager a few times and he wasn’t selling, then another time I rang and he’d sold it!

[@Farmerphil500]

Hi Andrew will you be putting a list of all the drills that will be drilling a plot and how big will the plots be? Are they all direct drills and will they be going straight into stubble. I've met Jeff and Spencer on many occasions and visited them twice myself having run a Claydon for 10 years 👍Brilliant drill and still run the straw harrow.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

I’ll spend 5 mins going through everything in a week or two. It’ll be on soil containing 50% clay, sprayed off stubble, no cover crop with lots of assessments during establishment and taken to yield. Really looking forward to it. What soils are you on? You obviously get on well with the drill. 😃👍

[@Farmerphil500]

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Around 80% silty loams with a bit of sandy loam (high mag soils) odd patch of clay, yes it's been a brilliant drill for us saved us thousands in fuel/metal and labour over the years with no yield penalty, we got the 4m rigid SR drill in 2009 just before the hybrid came out, it was heavy but bullet proof and very low maintenance/running cost's and really improved our soils over the years and this has paved they way for our current drill to run successfully reducing costs even further for us. Brill video things have moved on down there since I was last there 👍👍

[@ianfincham150]

Hi Andrew i may of miss it what was the results from the sprinter direct drilling i run a 6 m moores and a8 m co on bulgults ian fincham

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Hello Ian, some of the yields were but I thought the Freeflow would be good because it emerged first.

[@user-nc1jn6ub7e]

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[@paulwilliams3494]

Yeah hey for wet paint................powder coat is absolutely rubbish............or is it the surface preparation? Either way they seemed to do it well.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

I’ve heard good and bad for both but Sands sprayers wet paint finish did look very very good.