Views jump 19x the channel's usual pace

Wheat for 2027 goes in with a direct drill, after Harry asked if it was worth it

Harry Metcalfe's farming season has run from drought to doubt to muck spreading, and the newest chapter puts seed in the ground without a plough.

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Why this story? The whole channel is running at 168,624 views a day, 19 times a normal day (8,818).

What does sowing wheat look like when nobody ploughs first? That is the question behind the newest upload on Harry's Farm, in which Harry Metcalfe drills wheat for the 2027 harvest with what the title calls "the latest direct drill" and sets out to explain how it works.

Direct drilling places seed straight into the ground through the stubble of the last crop. It skips the plough and most of the cultivation, which is why farmers turn to it to save fuel and leave the soil's structure alone.

The video closes a season that has played out like a serial. In August, with still no rain and a harvest smaller than he had hoped, Harry wondered whether wheat was even worth sowing again. When the rain finally arrived in September, he raised the harder question of why grow food crops with no profit in them. Then came the muck: chicken manure, zoo poo and composted tree waste, spread with 2027 in mind. Now the seed is going in, which answers the August question at least for one more year.

The channel then had a day of close to 170,000 views, about nineteen times its usual, and that single day carried most of the week. It is not clear what set it off. The drill video has done well since it went up on Tuesday, though the summer's busiest upload is still Kaleb's tour of his new big baler, with the reasoning behind baling all the straw this year.

Harry took on his first farm in 1985 and kept adding land until evo, the car magazine he launched in 1998, pushed farming into the back seat. On this channel, the tractor is the one driving.

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The facts

Channel: Harry's Farm
Subscribers: 199,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 211,027
Channel views, pace per day: 168,624 (on a normal day: 8,818)

The numbers

One day did most of the work: a jump far beyond the usual pace of a channel that normally moves at a steady farm-gate rhythm.

views per day, whole channel

typical day

8,818

now

168,624

subscribers

199,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

24,168,140

views per day

168,624

typical day: 8,818

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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As of October 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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