In this video, we explore the crucial role of drainage in improving crop yields and its integration with controlled traffic farming. Cousin Michael gives us an agronomy update, and we meet Tim Sissons from William Moorfoot to understand how they design and implement land-based drainage schemes.
Plus, we take a nostalgic look back at P.X Farms in 1958 and discuss whether it’s time for James to invest in a Horsch Avatar.
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Key Moments:
00:00 Intro
02:27 Cousin Michaels Agronomy Round Up
08:28 Meet Tim Sissons form William Moorfoot
13:14 How Drainage Works
16:31 Land Based Schemes
18:50 P.X Farms in 1958
23:08 Total Metres of Drainage Per Year
23:51 Answering Your Questions
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41 Comments
PX FARMS VERY PROFESSIONAL FARMER'S UP THE FARMERS 💯. 🤙🦊
Cheers James for another fantastic interesting video.
Why has the audio been so low? That mics need screwing up
Another great update James , nice to hear the wheats are looking good.
This could be on BBC tv, instant hit…
Hello, P.X. farms If it's okay with you, I was just wondering where you obtained the challenger with the spud planter modal in your office.
Thanks James great up load as always . All the best to you and all at PX for 2025 regards.😊👍
Luv this channel. Great video, as always, James. Since watching PX, i have become an expert in winter wheat. Where i walk my dogs, there are a lot of fields that have been drilled. I can't help but stop and inspect them! Lol. Cheers and take care.
great stuff james
Great video as usual but can you turn your audio up very difficult to here you at times
Love the videos James very informative and a great insight into farming. I have a question for you and cousin Michael, Can you see a visible difference between the different drills used this growing season this early in the crops, including the drill that was hired in? Many thanks from Northern Ireland.
Good to hear crops looking good – while it’s slow how about a farm and equipment tour?
Drainage brings me out into a cold sweat. Back in the very early 80's I worked on a farm in Leicestershire. As you probably know, Leicestershire is very very clay based land, at least where I worked. My boss adapted a mole drainer to take poly drainage pipe that was pulled through the mole drain. Sounds like a great idea but there was no gravel used. Long story short, myself and another lad spent months digging trenches over the pipe ( by hand) and back filling with gravel. Our hands were so chapped that they were splitting down to the knuckle bone. Kids these days have no idea what hard graft is……am I an old curmudgeon for mentioning this lol!
Drainage one of the things that as been put on a back burner on some farms and the price is being paid
Luv the channel but the audio is garbage now, every other channel I have set at 42% volume but yours I need 65% at least changing up and down. Just reviewed previous video's and it was during the Kelly's Turkey video and since then that the audio has gone wrong.
Fendtb1167 & 14 furrow Plough would be very interesting to come & film in action if you are keen. Keep up with the very informative videos!!
Pity you and cousin michael not going to Lamma,i wore my "October drilling is for loosers" T Shirt specially 😂
Once again, an interesting update. 👍
Audio issues need addressing.
Hi James,
Do you find with all of the drainage work that there might be some nutrient loss through leeching and that that might lead to environmental issues with the environment agencies?
You should be at least 50Thousand going by some of the gash on YouTube.keep up the good work very entertaining
Great video! Looking forward to seeing the 1167 on big plough
Hi James & Team Nice one Thanks again
I totally agree, you cannot farm with wet feet ! We are trying to under drain in front of potatoes, as a lot of our systems have come to the end of there life, where the are shot, in crops like over wintered Cauliflower it really stands out. They say it’s expensive, £1000/ac, over 50 years if looked after comes to £20/ac/year, peanuts ! You don’t buy a £500,000 combine and not look after it, so use the same thinking for your drainage
Well done your great to watch 👍👌
Another interesting vid… Having had a huge amount of experience in putting in new drainage schemes over thousands of acres, I know that the drains should always go across your work… and in almost all cases should stoned to within 300mm and use wrapped pipe on silt land… Obviously regularly jetting especially on flat& silt land… & making sure headers are clear & obviously dykes & ditches…👍🏼
As well as employing great staff and great kit, James you use the best drainage company (Moorfoots) in the eastern counties 👌
A further thought: James for PM, cousin Michael as DEFRA secretary and Tim Sissons as Environmental Minister – a win for farming 😂
well done james your videos are very good , but with all that money your making a new microphone would be a great purchase
How deep are the drains and how deep does the mole plough go? And do you know exectly where all the drains are….?
You can probably guess where I'm going with this – is there a risk your mole plough could rip through a drain?
Thanks.
Great video James
OMG absolutely outstanding video best one so far for me this year 👌🏻😍 in 🇮🇪 some land drain with very narrow digger bucket AND for best drainage work use sandstone gravel but some cheap skate with limestone chips!!! Looking forward to seeing these boys doing drainage for you 🤞🏻 AND the concreting of the big toys shed 🤞🏻🤔😃
i like the way james grills everyone, keeping everyone on his/her toes
Hi Tom and James, the audio on your vids seems to be getting worse, maybe try new mics or fit them closer to the mouth. Jezz, Terrace, British Columbia.
Threshold an American puting 6" plastic pipe with a track dozer pulling a tile plough called dirt perfect
A lot of comments about volume. For whatever reason I don’t have a problem with the sound when I’m watching (I always watch on my phone though). However, the thought of installing some kind of volume control on James seems a brilliant idea to me.
I unfortunately have what I call an unhealthy obsession with drainage on our farm. What has most concerned me is I have recently dug up to view some of the laterals in a 1980’s scheme that was put in. The scheme used a drainage plough on the trenchless idea, not a trencher. What I dislike about this is I feel the trench the plough creates isn’t wide enough for the heaviness of the ground. If you’re going to the trouble of putting them in, like your man said in the video, do it once do it right.
On the heavy ground for future I’d insist on wider trenches for a bigger catch area, more gravel and larger lateral pipes.
On all the drainage schemes of the past it also seems like they were obsessed with keeping 8-10 metres away from the edge of the field. I understand trees and their roots can be a problem etc but it’s a long way to find the start of a drain when you are pacing it out!
This from section 2d of the Climate and Nature bill which is about to be read for its second time this month. "ensuring the end of the exploration, extraction, export and import of
fossil fuels by the United Kingdom as rapidly as possible; ", which will screw the majority.
James I really enjoy your videos, but honestly the audio is poor which makes it hard work listening. I understand I'm not the only one experiencing this problem, can't something be done about it?
What are you on about you baffon? It's only px that the issues are with, ur a pure goat
Are all land drains laid at a standard depth or does it depend on topography? Is there any danger of hitting drains with cultivation equipment such as mole drainers?