Combine Crisis & Ergot Discovery: Wheat Harvest Moves to Bedford

We face a series of unexpected challenges during our wheat harvest.

One of our combines becomes completely blocked up, causing a major delay just as we were hitting our stride. But that's not all – we discover ergot within our wheat, adding another layer of complexity to our harvest.

With our Cambridgeshire wheat now complete, we move on to farming our wheat in Bedford. Join us as we navigate these hurdles and continue our journey to a successful harvest.

As always, we end the video by answering your questions, sharing insights and updates about life on P.X Farms.

Key Moments:
00:00 Intro
02:52 Cousin Michael
04:53 Nuffield Scholarship
06:56 Cultivations
07:59 New light bar
09:29 Laid Wheat
12:40 Blocked Combine
18:19 Sandy is back!
20:58 What is in James Briefcase?
21:27 Welcome to Bedford
27:35 Haulage Update
28:17 Ergot
29:38 Grain Hospital
32:01 Tom Cruise?
32:32 Poorly Dog
33:35 Answering your questions

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[paulwillmott]

It's a pleasure to see a boss who takes it on the chin good lad.

[stephenross]

Best farming channel on YouTube at the moment, keep it up James

[emmett]

This farming operation should be shown to all sectors of business, the focus of the team to work together, to achieve their goals is truely fantastic, but the foundation to the success of P.X is undoubtedly as I see it, is that each member of staff is valued and that their contribution is acknowledged and laughter is always in the air.

[billharcourt]

James kudos to you, you lead by example and your interaction and they way you look after your people is excellent and i can see why they go the extra mile for you. Good luck with the rest of the Harvest and hope the weather is kind to you and all the farmers..

[stephenstokes]

I’ve said this before, how well you look after your staff, and the way you can still have a laugh with them even when things go wrong, to many employers think if someone is laughing whilst at work they are not working hard enough, and all I can say to that is to watch your channel, they will learn how to get the most out of their staff and improve a working environment, hats off to you james 👌

[andykeeble]

Many in management could learn a lot by watching this awesome channel. You look after the staff so well and its great to see.

[BigJoe]

What an absolutely brilliant channel this is. Though the scale of farming involved is not something we’d be familiar with here in Ireland, it is still fascinating to watch.
Your interactions with your team shows a buisness man who is driven to succeed by encouraging and rewarding those around you, but also shows an individual with a great passion for farming!
Wishing you every success James!

[joeseels]

This channel is going to go very far! Well done on showcasing farming! Great content!

[merv]

I am a loss to understand why someone in a village should think to email you when it is plain to see the trouble you go to to showcase the PX brand, but what a lovely thing to have PX baby grows for Sandys little girl.

[harrybeasant]

I’m absolutely obsessed with your videos, hugely entertaining and educational. Can you provide more info next video on your seasonal crop rotation? Do you grow different things in different seasons?

[daveboughen]

Have to say James its been interesting viewing seeing how much your operation has changed from when i was last on your cambridgeshire farms hedge cutting a few years back. Certainly your youtube content this year is some of the best ive seen and also humourous too. Thank you for taking time out to share your business

[MartinDowney-pi]

Great video james . My nephew is over in England for the harvest he is loving it.all the best for the rest of your harvest. From martin in ireland.

[ianrobinson]

Got to say the way you treat your staff is nice to see a lot of respect to you + you seem to have a great bunch of lads love watching keep up the great work

[peterwilson-qjds]

Another great update James, well done on the 10k subscribers . The team you have are excellent, they all pull together and that makes a lot of difference in getting the job done. Hope the weather keeps good and you can press on with harvest.

[tony]

Another excellent video, the way you run your team and business is second to none.. very glad you're doing regular updates..
Congratulations to Sandy and his wife on the birth of their daughter and what a lovely touch getting the PX baby grows..👍

[craigpavitt]

Good work from all the lads at PX farms. I was lucky enough to do two harvests back in 95 and 97 at Roxton so brings back a lot of memories. Keep up the good commentary James.

[michaelpower]

James, another great video, always sharing your knowledge on ups and downs of harvest time, detail of all that is vital in combining and what has to be done to pick up the harvest from the ground, your friendship with the work colleagues is a standing point of been a great leader, the laughter and banter is always a great asset when you are working, keep up your spirits and always enjoy what you do, have a great harvest overall, all the best to you and your work team, and your family, Michael power, county Waterford Ireland [Eire]

[gunton]

Great honest video as always, great team.

[TheGrimReaper]

As my dad used to point out when a cow died and it upset me “where you have stock you have losses”. Like you and looking back sixty years ago he was very philosophical . I suppose the same applies to machinery mishaps, it’s no use crying over spilt milk.

[philhicks]

Outstanding leadership, no wonder why you have a great team behind you, , really am enjoying your videos , especially as an ex tractor driver, it’s still good to see what’s others are doing, and I was the 1k like button this evening 😊