In-Cab Ploughing, Aussie Farming Insights & Fire Safety Tests

First, we hop into the cab with Glynn to get a detailed look at the ins and outs of ploughing, offering insights into this essential farming process. Despite our best efforts, the crops remain unfit, which means no combining for now.

We're excited to welcome David Cox, an Australian farmer managing over 60,000 acres back home, who shares his expertise and perspectives on large-scale farming.

To ensure our farm is prepared for anything, we test out the latest fire sticks supplied by Spladings by starting a controlled fire in the yard. Safety is always our priority, and we show how these tools can help protect our crops and equipment.

Finally, we get hands-on in the grain store, fixing the conveyor belt to clear the backlog of wheat that's been piling up in the yard.

Join us as we navigate these ups and downs, sharing the reality of farm life and the resilience required to keep things moving forward.

Key Moments:
00:00 Intro
02:03 Ploughing
11:46 Broken Fendt Crawler
12:30 Broken Conveyor
13:38 Interview with David Cox
40:41 Fire Safety
42:56 Controlled Fire with Fire Sticks
48:46 Spaldings Response
50:07 Can James pronounce Hermione yet?
50:47 Vaderstad Press
53:08 Bailing Continues
54:48 Fixing the Fendt Crawler
55:53 Fixed Dryers
56:36 Inside our 20,000 tonne grainstore
58:16 Answering your questions

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[richardstrange]

One of the most honest, to the point interviews i've seen with an overseas food producer (farmer). Well presented Mr Peck, and great to hear from your ploughman, shows the skills involved in working with big machinery. Great vlog as usual, well done the video and editing dept.

[johnforrestal]

Conversation with Australian man very informative. Thanks

[timboy]

Thank you for facilitating my request regarding the in cab ploughing, Thanks to Glynn and Tom for a wonderful piece.

[spuderukporter]

I’ve got a obsession with these videos it’s opened my eyes about the other side to farming brilliant stuff James

[kildare]

Patrick tomlinson brought a group of us irish lads to your farm about 20 years ago when you were a young lad. Good to see you prosper.

[bobcrawford]

Interesting experiment with the fire fighting extinguisher and fire stick Looks to me that old school is best Australian guy very informative talk with him

[abbiejones]

What a eye watering amount to fix that tractor on tracks..

[stuarttyson]

So many similarities with the Australian gentleman to what I have found farming here in the Saskatchewan Prairie.
We came from England, bought land, some of the best land in the area, for $520/acre in 2000. We have quadrupled the size of the farm, expanding by renting, but over the last 2 years we have bought the majority of that rented land due to the health issues of our elderly landlords. A neighbouring block of land, which we do not farm, has just come on the market at $2875/acre, but is poor land, only 80% of the block is farmable.
We have found, as your Australian chap is experiencing, that the land is improving with better farming practices. Most of the land had been under a summer fallow system, weed control using steel one year with a crop the alternate year, and minimal or zero inputs!
Needless to say, this progress is almost universal across the prairies, with very significant average yield improvement, especially during the last 4 or 5 years.

[jonwright]

Fantastic video, the firestick 'failure' is really important as I am sure many people see the on-line videos and think 'thats that' whereas knowing how to and where to use them seems critical.

[jrff]

Over an hour! James you hero. Time to get comfortable

[guys]

Your mate said can you make the videos a bit shorter? This one is over an hour long! 🤣🤣🤣but as usual I loved it 👍The Australian chap was spot on. You gotta plough the land and start fresh every year 👍if you get a good deep fresh bed. The tiny seed will do the rest no matter what the weather 👍make the most of this coming week and crack on 👍

[BenKiwi-nqun]

My favourite YouTube channel at the moment. Good on you Mr Peck.

[alistairdickson]

Excellent video James. Fascinating interview with your Australian friend, good to hear a farmer interviewing a farmer from another country. Ploughing video very informative as most people will not have operated a plough of that size!

[cres]

Love this vlogs as someone who grew up on the farms bailing at 16 years ploughing with a two furrow plough with a land wheel in east lothian scotland 1967 then ending up working in Lincolnshire running potatoes operation wish I had come across px operation b4
I moved back to scotland seems like great company to work for

[hallfastrac]

Enjoyed the video and the talk with David cox i'm a retired farm worker and manager in 1992 me and the wife made a bucket list to visit her sister in Australia every 2 years and i would take photo and video of farming all the way round Aus, in 2015 i finished that from the top of Queensland to the far north of the western wheat belt, Esperance waspart that as my niece lives there, sadly it will be a while before i go back because the wife now as terminal cancer we have a lot of happy memories of our time there.

[EnigmaFarmer]

Thank you James for the update, it was really as always very informative, the interview with David from Australia was so educational, just shows the comparison and your questions to him were fantastic. those firesticks are nothing like they are advertised, I am a qualified extinguisher engineer and have look into those, yes small fire like a you showed in the barrel is about all they can do, but in the harvest field or grain dryer, waste of money. I as an x Frontier grain store manager of 32 years, really enjoy when you are talking, stores, dryers etc, just right in to my barrow. thanks again James, keep up the great work

[robhardingham]

Thank you. It was good and interesting to hear the chap from down under giving a different perspective, especially how their yields differ.

[Albabraveheart]

I’ve been working on farms now for 45 years, my things have changed. But not the love of farming ❤❤❤. Fantastic insight into modern farming.

[Chris-cbgh]

Nice to see Simon he's a good mechanic used to work with him for a few years 😊

[andykeeble]

Another superb look at modern farming. Thank you James.