Farm update 304 Drilling wheat, sugar beef harvested & the rain has seriously affected straw bales

[@AndyJ5431]

Great to see Tom and Emily visiting you. I was at Primary school with Tom’s dad Richard and have fond memories of Grandad Tony. 🚜👍

[@andymercer8092]

Good update young man. Nice to see some drilling getting done 👍

[@paulbarnes3791]

For god sake wear protective clothing while handling avadex trust me you can end up very ill breathing it in

[@edwardgarrill60]

Another great update. With mole draining your fields and deeper cultivation Will be very interesting to see if you have a higher blackgrass burden in your wheats next spring.

[@grahamkelland]

Difficult autumn with most aspects of farming worser than last year in this part of Devon! If those wet bales of straw were here I'd stack them in a shed on there side to dry over time and use for bedding,had to the same with round bales before. Another top video!

[@georgehay5929]

Great video again. Don't drink whisky as you will just waste it with frozen mouth. Good to c tom and Emily on your channel

[@david-g8l6i]

very interesting vid and a tidy yard well done

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😊👍

[@michaelshakeshaft9815]

Another good video Andrew really helps to cheer me up on a Sunday morning , rain again here in Shropshire , not been able to do any drilling since last Tuesday , she who as to be obeyed is getting fed up with me being in the house and not out in the field .

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Conditions your way are horrendous. Another 20mm yesterday here and raining again now.

[@michaelredmond9950]

Well done to your self and Ronda You both make a great team

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

😊👍

[@adrianlayen4119]

Great update Andrew, I don't know where to start. Nice intro, the backdrop looked fantastic and I hope your evening is a success. Good to see the grass seed coming up on your cereals event field. I just wondered though, what's best, drilled or broadcast grass seed. Great to see Tom lamb on your video. I am now wondering, There's you at the dentist talking about teeth whitening and PX James and Michael loosing weight. Good job it's not the 1980's as the shoulder pads might be coming out. Looking forward to the next video.

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Broadcast definitely better. The grass is in the ground such a short time, if it’s in rows it does t have time to tiller and spread by the time the event happens. Michael and James…..😂

[@michaelodonoghue7688]

Andrew , bales up on blue pallets and some tarp or plastic on top me old mate 😮😂👍

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

We don’t have any pallets and the chaser would crush them unloading.

[@Gearoid35]

The rain has spoilt a lot of straw, good luck with the charity event,

[@SH66667]

Too wet for a quad bike to travel here. Straw was going to be dear this winter, now it will be like gold dust.

[@AndyJ5431]

You need some of Olly’s hay caps on top of your straw.

[@robertsmith9810]

at least it was warm Rain

[@robdavis5711]

Ball sounds great, I’ll be there with a camera!

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

👌😊😊

[@richardbaker22]

Great video Andrew

[@willyfindlay4398]

Hay caps and sit on pallets. 😊

[@ronaldlucas5360]

Enjoyed the video

[@Charliebill572]

Great update Andrew 👍

[@peterdennis9359]

Another nice update Andrew, nice to see you getting some drilling in but sadly can not control the weather Really windy here in Kent

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Raining here again. ☹️

[@jonstephens682]

Cracking up adage again Andrew. Such a shame about the straw bales and that is one hell of a stack of straw across the road. I can see why you go to the dentist on a Friday ❤ 😂😂

[@markyoull6744]

great stuff andrew

[@ianwright7056]

company called : pro straw do the sheets, poles straps and they have the equipment to cover the heaps aswell

[@EddieRedX5]

Probably Hay caps would save the the top bales and a load. Of pallets would save the bottom bales it seems a waste otherwise You certainly run a very tidy farm Andrew which I love to see The Weaving Drill seems to be doing a great job glad you enjoyed your holiday and also your night at the awards ceremony Fantastic video again Andrew

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

👌😊👍

[@davidcornforth3786]

All that avadex travelling through the soil and into those newly made mole drains and out through those fast flowing ditches of yours poisoning who knows what who knows where !!😂😂

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

You need to listen back!! They’re not our fields, I’m contracting for one of my cousins and it’s on the heath, free draining soil, no drains or ditches! 😊😊😊😊😊😊👌👍

[@matthewhodder3029]

Hay caps on the top bales might have reduced the rain damage.

[@robertallen3441]

Olly will sell you some hay caps !!! and could you not have a layer of pallets at the bottom?

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

I thought that too but we don’t have many and the chaser would probably crush them when unloading.

[@matthewhodder3029]

But hay caps would work if you could get them on.

[@AndyJ5431]

I hope your beef is from East Marsh Farm, Goxhill. First class meat. What part of Gloucestershire is Rhonda from🐮🥩🚜👍

[@graemelaing1354]

Need more sun lotion. Nose get burnt in Portugal???

[@ianwright7056]

flip the bottom bales upside down and they go through straw choppers fine

[@robertwilson93]

Do you think farming is getting too technical now wardy,it's a pity you can't plug in an electric box to control the weather.

[@DaveAndrews-d6l]

Another fantastic update Andrew really interesting are you hoping to roll the wheat sown

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Not now, I think the fields are best left untouched as it’s so wet and I doubt we’d be able to get on.

[@tomgreene1843]

Great upload and well done for promoting local produce ! Cou;ld beet or straw be stored on pallet to keep bottom dry and free land for more flexible use?

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Beet couldn’t as we couldn’t load it but bales could if they were stacked on the concrete with a forklift but ours were stacked with a chaser trailer and I think that would crush the pallets when the chaser tipped up to empty each load.

[@racingmad-s4x]

One of the reasons the new government are not and will not help British agriculture is the PM is a vegetarian.

[@ronansfarm2679]

Why not put the JD on the weaving drill It would carry it far better than the case

[@user-graham1975]

get some hay caps from spaldings

[@SpudSlingsby]

Do you have planings on all of your beet pads? The cost of an extra trailer to cart the beet a bit further would be less than the costs of field heaps. It'd be worth pricing up a roof on legs over one of the pads, particularly near your heavier land, i think youd be suprised at the lower dirt tares in your beet. The hard bit would be getting the straw shifted quick enough!

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

Planings on one, straw on the other 2 but one of those has been emptied this week. So we’re fine for the rest of the beet. I had wondered about a roof over one of the pads but it would need to be quite high and the legs would get in the way on the 2 open sides.

[@SpudSlingsby]

@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard you're no stranger to high sheds! I don't know how wide your pads are, but an 80' span is quite economical and a wide enough opening to be useful

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

The 2 pads on the heavy land are 28m x 40m and 30m x 55m. They’d need Stanton’s every 6 or 8m. I’ll do a video for next Sunday. 👍

[@kevinharker1840]

So..... are you donating anything to the Environment Agency for their amazing work through out the last few year's...?? 😉

[@StevenAddison-rt5ub]

Get pallets off px farms for the bottom bales he’s always loads to get rid of! And Ollie’s mate sells the hay caps, then see Tom lamb for a bale blaster.😊

[@WardysWaffleAndrewWard]

I don’t think pallets would work, the chaser would crush them when tipping the load.

[@Af63_]

Andrew Ward prominent member of the NFU, on the "pre Christmas bash"

[@philippepper8332]

Didn’t Birmingham do well 😝👍

[@peterwilson-qj2ds]

Good update Andrew, beet look nice and clean in the heap.