FARM UPDATE 171 I FALL ASLEEP AND NITROGEN TRIAL COMBINED

hello and welcome to a Tuesday night edition of water's waffle hope you're all having a decent time of managing to get some combining done it is proven tricky with the rain uh very intermittent and uh very frequent at times we've had a two day break just about yeah two day break without any um since the John Deere went back on demo uh just incidentally on that I've had lots of comments on that and uh thanks very much for your comments and questions on that one quite a few people or some people were saying about they didn't know about the tech and there's too much recombine operator to do with manage the tractor and Trail alongside well actually the combine operator doesn't do that it's the combine itself and the technology the combine is managing the tractor and Trail alongside and of course when you need to think about uh probably that it says that some people have said about skilled operators it's taken away uh the sort of skilled operators from the job but if you think about it it's also giving people the opportunity to come into agriculture who aren't skilled so they can get to see what's happening what's uh what it takes to drive a traction trailer and what happens in Harvest time and how Foods produce so it gives up people opportunities that then they might become skilled um in in the in the next sort of a few years and and as the further their career gets in agriculture so I think it does open up doors as well but really interesting demo and we might get the combine back which would be interesting if we do anyway let's crack on with this week's update we're looking at combining yes looking at a few different crops a few things going on around the farm and also the field that we're about to plant wild flowers in we're taking a look at that hope you enjoy it and we'll see at the end it's Sunday night about 8 30. we're back on it after the rain this morning moisture 16 and a half so that's great it's a percent and a half over where we get deductions but we've got a fair bit of wheat combined at sort of 13 or 14 so we can mix it when we're loading lorries with that suffering any deductions when it gets to the other end back onto our New Holland now the John Deere Combine is still in the shed uh we've still got it but the header has been taken away for to cover for emergency breakdown 11 o'clock Sunday evening it's starting to spit with rain rain starts it's Tuesday morning lovely day you can see nice blue sky here in Lincolnshire clouds a bit of a breeze uh I'm just going around testing some uh fields of wheat we've worked out that if we have three good days combining and we'll get the win tweets all finished three good days if we start later today we'll take us to Friday sometime so allow us a bit of extra leeway for breakdown or something and there's rain forecast for Saturday so we need to get done for Friday night if we get done for Friday night it means we can all have the weekend off so I've got one of my containers that I made the other day uh just going to put some of these ears in here and then take them back to the yard to test so just grab some that are low down as well because we don't want to grab all these at the top like that because they've got the sun they'll be a bit drier than these down here so I always try and take a mixture of three get a dry one as well for and then another dry one five a wet one down here six then just grab another one in the middle somewhere somewhere there seven we only need six ears um for the moisture meter we've got the mobile one we've got obviously the one in the way Bridge you've seen we need a lot more it's over here looking down here a few gaps down here on these outsides and also this field definitely two Fields here you remember seeing not a lot on this Edge and this is still in water all winter and a lot of the spring because when we planted this which is November the 11th it was good conditions but obviously it was wet underneath so a few of the jobs we need to do before the weekend and one of them is we've got that 10 acre field in latinum Village just on the hillside that we're putting into stewardship it's been in long-term halish production so we're just putting that into sure ships it's a really awkward field and we need to get that done really before Saturday before the rain so we're going to try and just look at that and just see where that needs spraying was glyphosate because it's been soloed a few weeks ago and we're here the um ears I've got three containers here and there we go I've got three containers there with the with all the ears in so I'll take those back and get them get Tom arumen in the moisture meter while I go and look at this other field that needs working because I don't think we'll get combining probably until maybe 11 o'clock because the the rain bit of rain yesterday and there's quite a due this morning this is the field that we're going to put the wildflowers in just on the edge of the on the edge of the village just a bit of a dilemma doesn't need spraying or not when you walk on it there are quite a few sort of grass weeds and you can see there's a one there or leave weed just in there some more grasses here and uh where else did I see some another one there growing some more in in here and really it wasn't leaving a week but it can't because of the rain coming up the weekend so I think this needs framework glyphosate now leave it 24 hours then get Tom in here with the cool to press tomorrow so really this field needs leaving um another week ideally to get more of the grass is growing but we can't leave it that long because the wildflowers now it's time they're in with the rain coming at the weekend they need to need to be in before Saturday uh then you might just wonder why my spring glyphosate at all when you look at this well the flowers we're putting in they don't want any competition from grasses and because this has been hailage and grass for a few years there will have been some seed and there'll be quite a lot of grass seed in the in the soil waiting to germinate so and the grasset saw the flowers itself do have a very small percentage of grasses in them when I get back to the yard I'll just look at the label and show you the label but this is why we want to start with a clean seed bed and actually take out any grass weeds and any broadleaf weeds that here already with glyphosate cultivations as some of you might think will do it in my view the don't especially with the rain coming at the weekend so this is right near Spring when we were combining on Sunday evening it was quite late when we finished I think it was about 1am we didn't start till 5 p.m because of the rain early on and um I happen to nod off in the tractor at uh I don't know what time it was midnight maybe but after that something around there and I was writing Reuben's around the combine and he managed to get this little tip of me having a snooze in the tractor foreign so there you are I was caught having a power nap but I can power nap for England and it completely revives me anyway today I got my own back because Reuben overslept and he was about half an hour late for work so they are Reuben it's one all just having a look at the one that feels that we established our stewardship winter bird food plots in and really romping on now you can just see this is since I put the slug pellets on starting to grow away from the slug damage sorry due to harvest happening and things I didn't get back in here to see any dead slugs the next day but you can just see by how much better these roads were establishing its control the Slugs yes there are a few volunteer weeds and things here an oil seed rape self set we can just see by the rows now looking really good and they're getting hold of the nitrogen I put on phosphate and potash so these are really growing like magnet you can just see here's the slug damage I'm straight up shot here so that is the slug damage from an older Leaf you can see there it's been shredded and stripped through the middle but then look at these new younger leaves look nothing no damage whatsoever so just shows the value of slug pellets of if I hadn't had done it they'd absolutely stripped these plants see there that's been chewed just trying to find some more but um yeah looking really healthy now there's a really one problem with all the moisture we've got here and the warm this will really romp on there and provide habitat and food this winter for wildlife it's about 10 o'clock in the morning Tuesday still so Reuben's in here now before we go combining just getting some glyphosate on this field that's come in stewardship coming wildflowers great shot there there's some behind it showing what the coverage is like then what we're going to do is because a lot of people walk up and down here with the dogs from the village the village is just the other side of the trees there I'm going to put a sign up there and laminate it so people can see what we're doing and what we're putting in this field [Applause] [Music] it's Tuesday about five o'clock we tried the combining a bit earlier and it was uh 17 some of you might think we should be going at that we've only got about two and a half to three days of harvesting wheat left to do and we haven't managed to combine anything over 15 yet which is the level uh where we don't get deductions if it ends up at the merchants or the end user like that so everything at the minute has got zero drying at costs so we're trying to finish it off like that um so that's why we didn't go while it was 17 and a half percent so it just got going again you can see there's a couple of those here to push up so I'm going to push those up and then I'll go down and just get some shots of combining the field we're in which they're in the field where we've got the Agri winter wheat trials which you saw I mentioned earlier on in this video so I'll get this pushed up and then we'll go down and see the combine and just in combining around the trials because we have got the Agri trial plot combined coming tomorrow which I'll see in another update but this update will go out tonight that's Tuesday evening so just got to get these loads pushed up which but this blade it doesn't take long so that you can get it fairly High when you start pushing with this blade like this nine and a half meter forklift with a five meter blade on the front of that it's stuck it up to five meters high [Music] that's got all these three loads pushed right up to the steerer beam just caught that one you can just quite look level but it won't be a second just to run it on the tracking so that red box section in the middle of the screen now is to taking off the rollers it does happen it's only a minute job to put it back on but it's got to wind that Beam on from that side there it's got to be brought this way uh towards us when and got over the shed here where there is no reason get it back on the forklift so yeah that's you can see there and that's the top actually got that pushed up [Music] the sample every load like this it's the same sample we use for lorries so we know exactly what is going into the shed of course as you know it comes into the way bridge in here and I'm just emptying it out into the bike it's down with some of them all and got all the results from there so that's the world results the top has just got um got a bit uh better bushel weight there 76.18 instead of 72 to 74 but this is a different variety this is variety called Dawson and it's the first time this year with combined any so better bush away it might mean a better yield and that's the temperature of the week going into the shed at the minute and we obviously need to keep that cool or get it cooled down to somewhere between 5 and 10 degrees by well as soon as we can but it won't be for a few weeks or months yet until the colder nights come I've just got to the field and see the dust behind me which is great cranky dogs enjoying a run um we're just combining the nitrogen trials those of you who came to our open day remember we had three different nitrogen um timings treatments different ways of doing it mixing liquid safe so we're just combining those now and I'm going to get some samples from those when you get to the way which we're going to put them all over the way Bridge so we get some really interesting data because the what we're doing now the results from this could influence the whole of the winter wheat next year how we've treated them with nitrogen the amount we give them and timings and everything so it's quite an important trial this one is it does take a little bit of doing because what I've got to do is combine each plot on its own you can see we take a full combine degree through the middle of the plots to get and then we do the length we know the area of the length of the field from online we take a full cup of them and then we weigh it over the way with and we can then work out a tons per hectare and all of them so takes a bit of doing because we have to empty each end and then go away so even though the trailer I don't know how many tons they'll be in here probably maybe four or five tons I don't know off the length of this field and then we'll weigh it and go and see uh see what we are what weight we've got which sample it for quality and have it analyze some some of the proteins and things we can't do here come here Nala Frankie Frankie you just like your mum you are you've got your own mind [Music] so now Tom's gonna go off in the yards away and then removal combine the next breed there's one more breathe 12 o'clock to do always fold the spout back for those non-farmers watching here two reasons one to take the strain off the combine and the load of it and another one so you don't catch trees or Telegraph hold anything like that which has been done and it is done and it's an expensive repairs Avenue spout or part of it is the more rain you get the more dust you get when it's dried I don't know what it is but it is like that unreal the map does so we've got the pegs in here with they've been all in the ground here since February marking out which is which plots we know where we are so that when Reuben's been applying fertilizer is known where he is so we'll take these out cobweb off there look we'll take these out you'll be very careful with these because these are made of fiberglass and usually I normally have gloves on but I haven't got them because you get little shards of fiberglass in your hands so it's important to grip it tight not move your hand up the stem so take all these to the yard grew often shorter Trail plot canes you can see here Reuben's going through the middle here yes it's left a little bit there that's not a full wig but that's one of the things to do in charge I put up with that there's a amount of information we get from this book is so important next year taking the full cut through so it's equivalence all the trials take a full cut through exactly the same amount width wise and then the combine will measure the length in the area and the way bridge will measure the weight so these are the trail plots that some of you might have been around if you've been to our open days see they're all ready for harvesting and Reuben's cut around the outside of them like that so it's all ready for the plot combine to come tomorrow just worth noting here the difference remember up this side all the all these up here this side were untreated so they've had no growth Regulators to shorten stem and help them stand up as you can see and they've had no fungicides for disease and the right hand side has had everything so that plot there whatever variety that is and the name tags have been taken away but I don't even know what they are because of the numbers they've all been numbered from the end so that plot there is exactly the same variety as that one there but look at the difference flat and of course the ears will be small there'll be a huge difference in in yields of these plots so it just shows the value of growth regulators and early in the season when you saw the disease value of fungicides and so excuse me so that's all treated and that's untreated just shows the difference interesting one here and it just shows how you can um the value of the trials so even though that variety has had a growth regulator it's still gone down and when you look to the left same variety hasn't had a growth regulator so much flutter so much flattering on on the floor and the ears will be small look at those ears I'll just take this across here look at that here so no fungicides there compared to even though this has gone flat look at the difference hold it alongside one I can't do it and let's do that there we go so look at the difference in size of here the one on the left side of Fungicide and the growth Rags on the one and right hasn't that just shows the value of it so it just shows the value of these products protecting our food supply and uh means we don't need to have so many Imports even though we are importing quite a lot another one there really bad that one is I don't know what that is for going flat compared to this one on the right time variety started to go but not bad and for those of you just wondering about this uh this particular field with a block of land here there's three Fields the 67 acre field there 22 acre there 32 acre here these are continuous wheat and have been continuous wheat now I think for five or six years five years I think it is um so yeah get some really interesting data from this and because it's heavy land we still get decent yields even though it is wheat wheat wheat for five years on the trop whereas normally you'd need a break crop in between to get a decent yield sorry last time for me a break crop is something other than cereal so a legume something like that that breaks the cycle of disease and soil issues that you can get when you grow one crop year on year on year so that's the trial plot combined sampled tipped and pushed up so any differences now are lost because it's all mixed ability with each other but we have the samples from the individual plots all saved separated so that we've got one which is the n min trial so that is the recommendation that they came back in February from the soil test on what we needed to achieve maximum yield we applied that then this is plot two which I think is the full amount of nitrogen in one application with liquor safe with the inhibitor and then we have the farm standard which is three applications of nitrogen um obviously three different times so that's it so um we'll have a look at results and I'll let you know what the orange due course anyway that's it for tonight's update I'm not quite sure how long this video I've got to edit it yet thanks very much for watching hope you enjoyed this update and what we're getting on with Harvest and hopefully we'll see you maybe tomorrow night for a short one

Channel: WardysWaffle Andrew Ward Farmer

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Published: Tue Aug 15 2023