Summer finally arrives plus why 50% of the farm won't be growing food crops in 2025.

Its like watching Clarkson''s sensible cousin farming down the road, without the shouting, hysteria and Amazon film crew around.

You and Jeremy Clarkson are doing so much for farmers. It's a great way to see what farming is really like in the UK.

12:30 "A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit."

Surely the government should be encouraging farmers to grow more not less As always i find your videos very interesting thanks Harry 👍🚜

Love Harry's Farm and Clarkson's Farm, but for entirely different reasons. However, if you took either or both as a snapshot of UK farming you would conclude that no-one could make a living from it without independent wealth behind them.

The Energy Secretary was celebrating the fact that solar farms will be harder to build on farm land, ensuring food production isn't affected. Then at the same time DEFRA is encouraging land to be taken out of food production. Doesn't make sense to me.

The UK is already an importer of food, dependence on other countries to feed you is a risky play.

No one ever talks about tenant farmers & their separate issues Harry.... Greedy, uncooperative landlords and only 3 year leases!! How can anyone create an agricultural business like this?

Series 3 Of Clarkson's Farm was an eye opener. I have no idea how food will be continued to be produced in the UK in 10 years time. There doesn't seem to be any long term planning, rather knee-jerk reactions to try and sound good to the electorate that will fail everyone.

We all care for the environment re Stewardships etc, albeit the insanity of stewardships being required to financially de-risk the farm business thus creating food security issues is surely madness. The markets and Govt should be making sure farming is financially viable re food production. Harry, thank you for making the videos and keep up the great work.

LOL glad to see the birds won't go hungry pity about us

I work in iron ore mines in Australia and have no links to farming at all but I bloody love this stuff. Thanks Harry.

UK farmers are so different to South African farmers, tech, machines, knowledge, legislation, etc... you can be proud of what you are achieving.

I really like this channel. Harry's explanations are very good, intelligent, easy to understand and honest. As a farmer from the Colchagua valley, Chile, I applaud your work that helps show what are the real problems and sacrifices that farmers face every day and every season...

It’s heartening to know that all our birds will have plenty of food over the next 5 years, and whilst I completely understand (and agree) with you de-risking the Farm, our own food security is a huge worry.

The lessons of history tell us that if we do not pay attention to food security, then this will come back to bite us - hard. The world is becoming ever more unstable, and if food shortages start to occur, the covid lockdown 'toilet roll wars' will prove to be a harbinger of the shape of things to come, only much worse. Leaving fields to lie fallow on a rotational basis is good, long established practice; 50% put into non-production is utter madness. The agricultural ministerial brief needs to be a major office of state with the appropriate calibre of incumbent, not a repository for also-rans.

Im struggling with the logic that subsidies are available to grow plants for birds etc. but not for food production by helping farmers in times of poor crop yields.

One thing if land is put into schemes that keeps the land available for retuning to arable its a winner

Keep the combine, as it gives you flexibility to cut at optimum time particularly in bad summers like last year.

Great update as always. I'd be interested to hear your views on the regenerative farming initiatives that Clarkson tried out by planting wheat and beans in a single field. Sounded great but I can't understand how the finances would work in the real world.