Farm update 290 Cereals Event site is mapped & crops drilled & protected. Soil prep grinds to a halt

[@stevewareing8525]

Great video Wardy, interesting and informative as usual. Thanks for promoting Jacobs KZbin channel, I've been a subscriber and following his vlogs for some time now. He deserves support and recognition because at 9 years old he's already a leading light in promoting farming to the younger generations. 👌👍.

[@RICHIE87622]

Back from the hols just evened my farmers tan so its now above the elbow! Looks like your still hobbling Andrew! Im still in the same boat 3 months after damaging my sciatic nerve! Definitely will have to make a trip out of yorkshire to come an see you next year! Thanks Andrew

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

I’m getting there. Been narrowed down to where it is so I’ve just had an x ray, will get result next week.

[@peterwilson-qj2ds]

Good update Andrew, nice to see how they set out the trial plots. It is surprising how hard the ground has gone, we could do with some rain but not like last autumn . Looking forward to Sunday update.

[@andrewwatson1698]

Great update. Someone said that a combine harvester is the best seed drill you will ever see because whatever falls out the back of it always grows without fail. No cultivatios - just sprinkle it on the surface and bingo, 100% germination! 😂

[@andykeeble1]

Great vlog thank you. I couldn't believe how dry your land is at the moment!

[@juliancope1925]

I’m not a farmer but looking forward to Sundays update very much

[@adrianlayen4119]

Great update Andrew. Really interesting to see how the small plots are drilled. It's unbelievable just how hard the ground is to work, even with large machines and high horse power tractors. Looking forward to Sundays update.

[@peterdennis9359]

Very interesting update Andrew, nice to see how they are setting up ceareals,hope its better than last years

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

It will be, lots of changes planned and in the layout.

[@johnhyde8892]

Great video Andrew always great to watch your videos.

[@paulstorer6937]

Great job again Andrew 👍

[@Barton_wool]

Thankyou for promoting my channel. It really means alot . Hope your ok JB 🚜🚜

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

A pleasure, keep doing what you’re doing. 👍😊

[@richardbaker22]

Great video Andrew

[@ronaldlucas5360]

Nice video updating your progress.

[@Cruisingthroughitall]

A Horsch Fortis would be a great tool. Replaces the Horsch Terrano models and has lots of tine options for 5cm to 30cm depths

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Thank you, will get onto Horsch.

[@ianmckay1780]

Ye gods Andrew, I didn't think that Cereals involved such meticulous precision planting for trials and everything else. Mind you, I haven't been to an event for nearly 40 yrs! So I should have opened my mind to the experience you gave us earlier this year, of your visit to this years event. I did think it was larger, but didn't realise, I suppose, because you can't show how big it was either. Having said that, thanks for the update, and see you next time.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

You should come this year.

[@tomwainwright7102]

Just watched update 250, I watch Finnegans also ,

[@robertsmith9810]

Need to give a good coating of farmyard manure to encourage the worms

[@tomwainwright7102]

On Sunday Sept. 1st after watching James of PX Farms`s vlog I asked him ,in the comments ,if he knew you, he graciously read my question and tonight informed me that you are his cousins Father-in-Law. Well I never 😉 the weigh in looked as if a good time was had by all. Really enjoy watching both yours and his vlogs, till Sunday.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Yes, afraid to say Uncle James and I are now related!! I recorded that video at oscars party! So funny!!

[@Gearoid35]

Great video thanks for sharing

[@GrahamWP58]

The ground looks very compacted, could it be possible due to milder winters ? No frost to break down the soil, just athought. A good insight into preparing for the Cereal event. See you Sunday

[@chrislee2221]

Crikes that land is as hard as a road, that is going to take a lot of work to get it into the condition your going to need. Consume a lot of diesel too I would think. Jobs worth at the PO sorting office no doubt.

[@louthboy]

Topdown is a good piece of kit but pricey, it works best at 12kph so you can soon get some ground covered

[@markyoull6744]

great stuff andrew

[@markrichardson1455]

Hi Andrew, I've been visiting Cereals for well over 25 years, but never really considered how early the preparation work has to start, really interesting. What's the total area required for the event including carparks?. Can't believe your Post office, ours are much more obliging. Another great update, looking forward to Sundays yield update👍.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Site is 45-50 hectares but final car park size has yet to be determined.

[@taronagrividslee3551]

How do you manage to keep the teckel at your side mine just runs and runs and runs 😂

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Training!!

[@jonstephens682]

Cracking update again mate. These gps systems that are out now are pretty amazing aren’t they really for marking out plots. Wonder what olly will do for next years cereals event 😂that’s the trouble with soil isn’t it you have a wet winter/spring the you get a sunny spell and it bakes the ground rock hard. Nice to see everything coming together for the cereals event. 😊

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Olly won’t have any trouble parking next year, put it like that!!

[@jonstephens682]

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard ah I see now the mind is boggling 😂

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😂😂😂

[@shauncalverley3081]

I’m not a farmer Andrew but I do understand what you’re saying most of the time, would it not be a good idea to plough the ground once in a while to get back to a well dug state ,sorry if I sound clueless 👍

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

The reason we went away from it was it was costing us huge £’s to establish crops after the plough. The solo does a similar job but leaves the surface in a much better condition ….. usually!!

[@philipmetcalfe6289]

Csfb netting might not be needed this year ?! But wouldn't chance it. C25 site looks like it's coming together, interesting footage coming up as the site develops. Yes dry ground is difficult to deal with, it's eats time, fuel and metal. Wait for the rain, trouble is will it be enough !

[@Charliebill572]

Great update as usual Andrew. The weigh in on Px farms video was very funny. Have you ever tried a sumo? Makes a decent job on our heavy land

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Not yet. Was with Uncle James yesterday, his Terrano FM was doing a cracking job, see tomorrow’s waffle!

[@Hope-tg1jj]

Great Job, Do you regret your decision of planting cover crops this spring instead of spring barley?

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Not at all. Most late drilled spring crops on other farms didn’t yield too well, put the grain prices in the mix and it doesn’t look good. Some of them haven’t been harvested yet.

[@moelSiabod14334]

Don't know if you are aware of it but Royal mail will accept a bank or credit card as proof of ID !

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

I didn’t have any actual cards with me, just photos and that was the problem!

[@moelSiabod14334]

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard I've been in the same boat myself, I only found they accepted a bank card as ID when a young lady placed one on the counter in front of me in the queue, no photo needed. I have even picked up a parcel for my son using his card ! So long as the name and initial on the card match the package name they are happy.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

That wouldn’t have helped me because I only had a photo on my phone of all my cards and they needed to see the actual card.

[@kevinharker1840]

After landworking and drilling is finished what's the chance of yourself, James ( Peck ) and cousin Michael having a sit down for about an hour and putting the world to rights, now that would make good viewing 😁😁

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

I was with James yesterday so watch out in the waffle tomorrow morning for a snippet!

[@johnwarwick4105]

Royal Mail parcels 😂😂. My 26 year old daughter couldn’t buy a can of spray paint at tool station as she didn’t have any original ID only photos of it on her phone, not the staffs fault just the crazy rule makers. Your land is so very hard, its difficult to imaging getting a crop established till we have a few inches of rain

[@robdavis5711]

Smashing! So 400 exhibitors at Cereals, is that including those who don’t have plots (e.g machinery exhibitors), or does that mean 400 individual plots with different crop/treatment variations? Will half of those be planted in winter, half in spring? Do you have all exhibitors and businesses finalised now or is it continually evolving?

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

400 in total Rob but some space still available for new ones. Will be more winter than spring.

[@grandiebob2500]

I always enjoy your content. One plea. I’m hard of hearing and wear Bluetooth enabled hearing aids. The wind noise in some of your episodes overwhelms the dialogue at times. Anything you can do would be appreciated.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Apologies, I do try to record the best quality I can but sometimes I’m out somewhere and don’t intend to record anything but see something I think worth doing but dont have the muffled microphone with me.

[@mattboa8494]

great video as usual one question I have just read on farmers weekly instergram that defra is set to surrender£100million to help address the 22billion so called shortfall in public finances what if anything do you think it will do to farming will it hit all the grass and wild flowers being sown instead of crops hopefully I read the facts right I'm just someone who follows farming used to be an agriculture mechanic

[@chrislee2221]

Imo a labour government has never been any good to agriculture. They are very short sighted in how they look at agriculture.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Not sure on that one. I know Tim Farron brought up in Questions that the conservatives held back £100m from farmers, he hoped Labour wouldn’t.

[@graemelaing1354]

Can you let us know when you’re going to do a joint weigh in with your friend in Cambridge????

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😂😂😂 It would be a waste of time unless James goes on holiday again or I eat fish and chips every night for a month as I’m about 2.5 stone lighter!!! It was a laugh last Sunday with the weigh in at Michael’s!!!

[@timgalley4391]

It was on PX farms channel today. It's actually Mr Waffles son in law who's also Wardy's agronomist who's doing the weigh in and James PX who is the cousin to the son in law. Andrew filmed them whilst all being together for Andrews grandson's birthday. I think that explains it as clear as mud lol

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

@timgalley4391 😂😂😂🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

@timgalley4391 😂😂😂🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@timgalley4391]

Looking at your expression and movement it looked like the old back is giving you some grief Andrew?

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

It has been doing a few times, I had an x ray a few days ago. Will update you all on it when I get the results. Thanks for asking..

[@timgalley4391]

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Take it easy, I've been there myself to the point where the pain brought me to tears to move. An excellent Chiropractor saved me.

[@petergarthwaite6805]

Post Office being arsey 😂

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😡😡😡

[@cheechU38K]

Royal Mail should have looked at your KZbin channel for proof 🤬

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

I tried everything and to top it off they were only open 8-10 am!

[@cheechU38K]

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard I had a pain on Tracking on a few parcels, one was returned but on tracking it was back and forth a week! My delivery office is the same time. Sometimes they are closed even on the time open.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

🤬🤬🤦‍♂️

[@tomwainwright7102]

With regards to you being cousin Michael's father in law Andrew, if you are with them both ,for let's say an hour, do you then have to lay down in a darkened room? I would, in fact I'just watched a catchup video and I'm in one now,😕

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😂😂 I will tonight because I’m meeting James shortly!!

[@tomwainwright7102]

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard I`ll be thinking of you,

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

The darkened room has been most welcome since 7pm. Snippets of our convo will appear in the waffle on sunday!

[@tomwainwright7102]

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Good ,I`ve not long to wait.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

@tomwainwright7102 😂😂

[@grahamglasper4463]

Boys soil again 😂😂😂😂

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Absolutely, this is as boyish as you’ll get!!!

[@paulmoore8520]

Why are you limping so dad ?

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

I’ve had a problem with a dead leg for ages, I put it in the waffle a few weeks ago, currently getting diagnosed what it is.