So you're telling me that Clarkson took a topic that was only being covered on TV in a boring, dry manner aimed at people who already had that interest, injected his personality and humor into it, and actually got outsiders interested in that topic? Impossible.
When a story like this describes a conflict using this many "basically" it's usually a good idea to take it with a grain of salt and assume that it's more nuanced than presented 😂
Convinced Clarkson is low key a genius. I have exactly 0 interest in cars but I would never miss a single episode of top gear. Same thing happened here with farming. He plays the inept buffon so well it means he's underestimated. Meanwhile he educates and remains incredibly versed on a vast range of topics.
Totally agree, couldn't care less about cars or farming but I've watched all the top gear/grand tour specials and all of clarksons farm. He is a genius.
Democracy. It's a shite system but it's the best we've found so far. That council is sort if like a Rotten Borough in reverse - a greater number of townies vote in noobs who dictate what happens in the wider area, applying their townie desires to what is fundamentally a rural area. Not exactly representation.
@@janelleg597 I've learned thoroughly by now to never attribute to stupidity, what can be explained by malice. It apparently used to be the other way around, but I've seen FAR too much evidence to the contrary in the last 10 years.
@@Archris17 Yeah, stupidity only goes so far and these local councils have been in power for ages. They cannot claim this excuse at all. It's insanity to me that some dusty power hungry assholes can mandate what you can and cannot do on your own land to such an extend. I understand that some oversight is necessary, but this has clearly gone too far for too long.
@@Archris17 It's even mentioned in the show that a lot of those objections from council are just because of Jeremy. They don't like the idea of him having profit from the show but wheter they like it or not he is helping the local farmers as much as he can and they are failing to realize that their objections and obstructions won't hurt Clarkson nowhere nearly as much as it hurts the other farmers he teams up with. So it's malice towards Jeremy and stupidity for everyone else involved.
A farmer I used to know years ago, someone at the coffee shop asked him what he would do if he won the lottery, he scratched his head through his hat and said, “well i’d keep farmin till every cent was gone!” Sounds like nothing has changed
My father used to dislike Clarkson as he used to think of him as a bombastic idiot. After watching Clarkson farm my father now thinks he’s a brave bombastic idiot. Honestly, I wasn’t expecting to see Jeremy crying when his animals got sick, frustrated with red tape and just the shock when he realised that if it wasn’t for Amazon’s money he had long gone under. This show really puts a spot light on how delicate our food chain and environment is.
Well, he still says he pay for it himself. Amazon pays for production and etc, but most expenses covered by Jeremy. That's why he say if he want to keep farming, he will need to go into London and host some Who wants to be a Billioner shows to cover expenses
I used to get annoyed getting stuck behind a tractor while driving though the countryside. Not anymore after watching Clarkson's Farm. I have much respect to farmers now!
This is why I think Clarkson deserves a knighthood. He's made everyone much more aware of not just how important farmers are, but also just how hard their life is.
@@brokenglassshimmerlikestar3407 Nope. The monarchy must absolutely be kept. Just cause Charles is dirty and does dealings with the scum of the Earth doesn't mean the concept of the British monarchy is wrong. Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.
lol if Jeremy who has a shit ton of money can't make a farm work and be profitable then you know things are really bad for farming. Also Amazon is paying for the show so even with there backing he is still losing money
@@RedTail1-1bet you didn't even watched a single episode of the show. Lmao. He contracted Kaleb (started his contracting business when he was 13 years old) and Charlie (an actual professional in the agriculture business, and more), both who are incredibly experienced farm managers . Who actually know how to run a farm. You think they were just paid actors on there? Us farmers are actually losing money, year after year, as the government continue to fvck us up. Go hate somewhere else. You're not helping anyone here. Or ever. You're a waste of oxygen.
@RedFail1-1 that's not true at all. kaleb was 21 when he was on the first season.. also its a clear issue. (At least in the u.k right now) I watch many farmers that have done this for many many years that express the same things that Clarkson does.
@@RedTail1-1Kaleb had been farming the land since he was 12 and knew it all like the back of his hand and was already working on the farm as a contractor before Jeremy started that show
@@RedTail1-1 Apparently you just saw the funny bits on youtube instead of actually watching the show. Kaleb is an actual contractor that works in a dozen of different farms, not only Jeremy's and he has been there years before Clarkson started the show doing his job. Also, the specialist you're talking about, they have one and he's featured on the show as well... Really easy to say when it ain't you doing the hard work.
Fourth generation farmer here. My son would have been the fifth but we had to sell out when he was just a boy. Jeremy clearly identifies with this class of hardworking and honest people, and he has artfully and ingeniously done when no one else could have. I myself still identify as a farmer. You can take the boy off the farm, but you can’t take the farm out of the boy.
I'll be honest. I wouldn't know a thing about farming, or the awfull position our government has put farmers in without watching Clarkson. He deserves a medal and the farmers deserve a hell of a lot more support from the top. 👍
Its the combination of rural areas being represented by neoliberal parties which crushes support structures combined with a lot of progressive economic policies exluding these areas due to them not being present in these political parties. Its sad that these crucial people and industries are getting left out to dry, especially as they have exactly the same problems as people in the cities
it is. abide it is exaggerated because they don't like his way of business in the first place. They want him to stick with conventional method, keeping the rural, rural, so to speak. But it is clearly insane under the economic climate.
@@nightsage217 Yeah. I mean I get the very vague intent of the local council. BUT HOLY SHIT THEY ARE SO FUCKING OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY. This man is goddamn TRYING to diversify his income in order to continue the farming operation because the climate(physical, economic and political) is making just pure farming near impossible to profit from. AND THEY FUCKING BLOCK THAT SHIT BECAUSE BOOHOO I'M AN OLD TWAT. If they had their say the entire area they live in would just no longer have any farms because of their bullshit and then their lives go down the shitter because now everyone there fucking migrates to the urban areas because nothing is left. Shortsighted fucks, I swear.
My family have been growing soy for over 3 decades down here in Brazil... What as a shock for me was the amount of bureaucracy for doing anything in your land... If I want to build a new gate, I ll do it, If I want to build a restaurant, go for it... Basically, we can do anything we want in here, apart from cutting down native trees.
@@commandernomad2817 That is mostly done in Colombia, Peru and Central America. Is like asking a British citizen about the weather today in the Mediterranean Sea.
@@jamieswanson4450 I dunno, i think whoever the local council is for Colin Furze is very accommodating. The bunch Clarkeson has ended up with would have crucified furze by now.
@@spodula you have a point on that I didn't think about that even though I've been watching him for years but I'd personally say that they are the exception to the rule however I am obviously quite biased
This is the perfect example of using your fame to bring light to issues that normal people like me would have never known about. I am only watching this show because of his personality, but now I'm interested in his journey as a farmer. Hell, if I had the resources and means I'd start a farm.
It’s a trap! As a farmer myself I can’t detail enough on why nobody NOBODY should be getting into farming right now. Every year is getting worse and worse, at least in my country the USA. We have the government breathing down our necks with “carbon credits” along with government agencies imposing restrictions on what we can and can’t use and when or when we cannot use said products. It’s a nightmare! Not to mention commodity prices are down, interest rates up, inflation up, etc etc etc. everything is up except the one thing we need to go up COMMODITY PRICES. Apologies for the rant, but I want to leave off on this, family farms here in America are dying, we’re slowly going extinct, not because we’ve lost the passion or love for what we do, but because we’re being forced out. Forced out either by government impositions or just not being able to afford it anymore. In the media, farmers are painted as these devils who raise cattle that have atmosphere killing farts and drive huge machinery that destroys every living thing in its path all while spewing emissions! While if anything were the biggest conservationists out there, keeping our soils alive and healthy and growing everything people rely on, all while being trampled by the media and government. There’s a reason why farmers are some of the most prone people to commit suicide. We don’t need thanks, we just need recognition, real recognition and representation.
@@snowdirt2529 man, at this point I just want to see these people who are complaining about farms and farmers to one day see the consequences of having no farmers.
They will and they will starve. And there will be no govt to help them. Meanwhille we, who farm (or used to) and have some equipment will be the ones doing best.@@itcaboi1707
I think it wasn't his intention to bring attentiont to general public about the struggles of farming. I'd say it wasn't his intention, but the fact you stated still remains true
I'm watching it with my girlfriend. She's Chinese. We live in China. This shows reach is far further and more eye opening than anyone ever couldve expected.
I doubt China's bureaucrats are much wiser than the British ones when it comes to farming. They also have an extremely serious urban-rural divide and rural drain problem, all the young people are moving out of the countryside and into the big eastern cities like Shanghai. There are farming villages and towns in China with no children or young people at all in them.
As someone from a farming family, the statement that Clarkson has done more for British farming than countryfile ever has resonates with not just us, but almost any farmer I have spoken too. Hats off to the man.
I’ve had my farmer neighbours here in SW France rave about this show as it’s educating the French townies on farming and where their food comes from way better than the French government ever has.
@@MegaJani I can't help but feel like the reason the english and french have had such a longstanding feud is because they're very similar in many ways. Which is why i have no trouble imagining Jeremy Filsclark in all his glory, saving the french from mediocre television and a lack of knowledge about farming.
Once the series had begun Clarkson had no idea what to do as a farmer, he didn’t know what he needed to buy, not knowing his farm wasn’t exactly as big as other farmers had, but as the first season went on he was slowly learning how farming works and a lot of people and myself who haven’t had any experiences with farming were learning it like Clarkson. Many farmers and tractor drivers could relate on the ups and downs of farming. This series is not scripted it’s a real life story of man who was an outsider to nature but he is and is still learning how every other farmers feel. (In the most comedic way possible haha)
Canadian farmer here . I only knew of Jeramey from my interest in cars. Loved the series ! In Canada western Canada we have fought subsidies because of our low population not funding to compete. Most of the European subsidies were derived from not wanting to depend on other countries for food after the second world war. Eventually things iron out .Most of the world doesn’t care about where their food comes from as long as it’s on the shelf. In reality,food ,shelter,heat and health are all that really matters. Producing food within your own country is so important and needs to be encouraged.
Exactly! From Canada too. I'm always amazed how people have completely forgotten that farmers are the backbone of civilization that keeps them alive... I was visiting Eastern Quebec last weekend and was appalled to see perfect farmland being planted with tree monocultures. It's complete madness.
As an IT system consultant I couldn't know much less about farming, but as a fan of Top Gear and Grand Tour I just had to pick up Clarkson's Farm and it's the best bit of television I've ever watched. I got to enjoy all of Top Gears finest about 10 years ago in my mid twenties and it was the best thing ever. Now a bit more mature I can watch Clarkson's Farm and really appreciate everything he does and understand to absolutely loathe the town council and just the bureucracy overall. I've gotten my wife, my brothers and friends to watch the show as well and have yet to hear from anyone that they don't care for it. As a 64 year old British multimillionaire (and farmer) he is the most relatable celebrity I've ever watched and that's the key with his success I think, especially with his farming show. I hope he never quits farming and that he has the energy to continue making the show for years to come.
Quick clarification: It's not just Brexit per se, but how it was handled. Farmers were promised subsidies equal to that of EU subsidies that they got before we left the EU. That simply didn't happen. And since Britain paid into the EU allowing those subsidies to be funded, the Government have effectively pocketed that money. It's disgusting, and no one has called the Government out for it, and instead just blanket blame Brexit.
ye brexit was about national sovereignty, it could have been a magnificent step to y'know letting the citizens of said country actually have a say in how it's run, but instead they botched the actual exit, promised shit they didnt deliver on and in the end continued or increased the activities people were upset about
@@goranpersson7726 There was never going to be a good brexit. The whole concept was flawed. Making excuses about "the way it was handled" etc is just defying the obvious, all the things that the remoaners told you would happen. What was dismissed as "project fear", unsurprisingly to anyone who did any real research, became project reality.
@@alkaholic4848 the UK could have handled it better and can definitely do just fine and even thrive without the EU. it just takes a bit of preparation, finding other trading partners incase of the exit souring relations building up the economy to handle the stuff that used to be imported etc. it has the commonwealth connections to rely on and a fairly good relation with the US. Most of the problems are in fact stuff like promising benefits that werent gonna be delivered (farmer subsidies) and having way way too much regulation. the green stuff is all nice and good if you pretend that increased costs of living arent a problem most of the regulations for those could honestly been removed and it would have lowered costs dramatically for farmers and for those who *want* that to happen still they could just buy from the ones that do it anyways as there would still be a market for such goods and therefor people would make it. it really is a case of "let's leave the EU but refuse to prepare for it and let's keep all the stuff that was implemented due to the EU that increases production costs even though we have now removed the cashflow that would pay for it" (no im not saying all green policies were due to the EU, some were however and I wasnt talking about only green policies but they're an easy example)
@@goranpersson7726 There's a lot of issues with using the commonwealth and US etc to replace it. 1. I don't know if you own a globe, if not google maps will do the job. They're several thousands of miles away. And despite all our modern technology, it still makes a massive difference. You could get goods from the EU extremely quickly and cheaply pre-brexit, you'll never get goods quickly and cheaply from Canada or Australia for example. 2. The commonwealth's industrial/commercial capacity, and population is tiny in comparison to the EU. For example even somewhere as massive and resource-rich as Canada, still has a lower GDP than France alone, never mind the rest of Europe. And Canada's population is less than half of France, never mind the rest of Europe. 3. We already had relationships with all these other countries. Brexit doesn't give us any advantages in trading with other countries. In fact it gives us much of a disadvantage. Because it's as difficult for these countries to arrange trade (or investment) with Britain now as it is the EU, but the EU is a much bigger market, so whereas before if they wanted to trade with the UK it would open up, by extension, the rest of Europe as a market. Now it makes more sense for them to organise trade / invest in a European country - which opens up a bigger market, than it does the tiny UK alone. Most of the regulations that were implemented by the EU are either necessary for trade, or are too expensive to regulate by ourselves so it makes more sense to use the system already in place, or they just make sense and removing them would be detrimental. As for investing in things like farming, one of the biggest things the EU had going for it was limiting tax-dodging, and redistributing wealth to help support industrial/commercial/agricultural growth, particularly in poorer areas, and workers rights. Leaving it was always going to give more power and control to the wealthy. Which we're unsurprisingly seeing now. It also forces Britain to rely heavier on the US, which will gradually see their capitalist-dystopia weave into our society more, which we already are doing with things like their medical giants giving back-handers to our politicians etc to try to drive out the NHS in order to let them take over.
The thing is that Jeremy is an armature farmer. He himself has stated that when he started he knew nothing about farming at all. Just like every other person who isnt a farmer. So when he learns something the audience does too. We go through many assumptions and discover the reality of the situation. People take framers for granted when in reality they are literally one of the only reasons society can even exist. The fact that the UK government is quietly killing off their own farming industry and nobody but the farmers know about it is tragic. Now farmers are getting the respect they deserve.
Yeah aside from being a natural entertainer, the learning as he goes aspect definitely helped with the appeal. For the mass audiences that know nothing about farming, everything that surprised Jeremy, everything that he didn't know, everything that caught him out, are the same things the audience were thinking the same thing. He came into it from the layman's perspective, and that makes it more interesting to watch for all the other farming laymans.
My mom and dad decided to become cattle ranchers when I was around 7... moved out to the middle of no-where and we had to learn everything (although my dad's family had a few cattle and such as a kid, but very small time) as we went. There were a lot of times in the show that brought up memories or similar situations especially with the cattle of trying to deal with all the same problems he had. My GF agreed that he did an amazing job showing off how hard things are to ranch/farm and bring the audience with him as he learned and grew. And also got to have fun watching him fuck up some things like his tractor implement connecting each damned time!
Oh, the British government cares about farmers. Just not British farmers. They love Australian farmers though, all that lovely, cheap beef full of hormones and other crap that's illegal in the UK!
Honestly the UK government isn't completely to blame, because the Farmers voted their own demise just as much. EVERYONE with half a brain was screaming that Brexit was a terrible idea. EVERYONE was telling them that they would lose so much, including the EU money. Instead, the Farmers voted in favor of Brexit, under the delusional assumption that the UK government would just cover the cost with money that would appear magically once they left and everyone will be happy. Farming isn't easy across Europe and the UK farmers are having a terrible time, but you can't help to lose sympathy when people screamed at them to not shoot themselves in the foot and they still did it anyways. Farmers voted for this without thinking ahead for a minute, now they reap what they sowed.
@@panzerschiff9805 I can't 2nd this enough. I didn't originally realise farmers were on the brexit bandwagon. It's amazing how most of the people voting for it were the people that were obviously going to suffer the most (eg a lot of poorer areas of the country that benefitted from EU grants and EU rules that protected workers and reduced superrich tax evasion, etc). Now i realise i've lost a huge amount of respect for them. I know that's a sweeping generalisation as i'm sure there were rare exceptions to the rule where some farmers voted against, and those i feel especially sorry for. But i don't feel sorry for anyone who voted brexit then suffers because of it. Like you say you reap what you sow. Anyone with half a brain was doing everything they could to explain it to the brexiteers but they were just so emotionally invested that they wouldn't listen to reason. Just thought it was a fun game, dismissing counter-arguments with catchy slogans like "project fear" (which of course eventually became project reality). Even now many are deluded enough to complain about it's the way brexit was done and other similar scapegoats, as if any other politician would've magic'ed some other miracle solution even though the UK didn't have any chips to bargain with. It's difficult to feel sorry for people like that. Especially because we're all suffering from it in some way.
Two months ago was when i finally decided to sit and watch Our Man in Japan James May and it lead me to Clarkson's farm. And in his goofy apolitical way, he really managed to show the depths farmers in the UK has to go to make a few thousand in profit and it made me, a foreigner appreciate them on a level i could never before.
This show has done more for environmentalism than Just Stop Oil ever will, no fear mongering no virtue signalling, just the problems and solutions explained without condescension or accusation. Its great for getting the every man on bored with the idea, without frustrating him in to opposition, the way blocking traffic would. The fact that Jeremy Clarkson and Amazon are the people behind it is pretty stunning to me.
when people or governments act stupid, call them out on it. thats how they learn and change. dont accept stupid behavior, because you like the persons that do it
@@aldraone-mu5yg just the conservatives? Labout abandoned farmers for office workers back in the 90s. They dont represent the LABOURERS anymore. That includes farmers and farmhands. Labour can fek off, too.
Yeah, vote you're way out of the problem. Lmao. Yeah I'm sure one farm is stopping climate change. This is why i don't engage with right wing bs, it's ridiculous. You do realise it was the fossil fuel companies that pushed the carbon footprint bs, that in turn pushed the blame onto the general public for the problems created by big business and its government puppets?.. but yeah of course, a few yahoos in their loungeroom watching a millionaire run a farm, that'll really combat climate change and the waste created by living consumer lifestyles!!. I hope you people like rishi, cause you better get used to people like him running you're beloved countries.
I have been adicted to the Clarkston Farm show since it started. Farming is backbreaking physical work and near impossible to get vacation time. It is dirty, often smelly jobs that the average person would not do. The bureaucrats who make the rules grow a rosebush in their yard and think this makes them an authority on horticulture. No one should be allowed in any agriculture government job in the UK or US unless they actually own a working farm. The average authoritarian would not dare to go into a restaurant and tell the chef how to cook but think they can dictate to the people who put the food on their table. We all need to support the farmers of the world and thank them for doing what most of us would not do to feed ourselves.
They don’t make rules because they know how to garden. They make rules because farming is just another job and industry. It has a huge geographic and cultural divide but at the end of the day farming is a JOB. They affect the economy and the economy affects them. They hurt and help people through their job, they play a role in negotiations, lobbying, and political movements. The fact they literally grow the food we need to survive doesn’t change the fact that with no money we can’t buy any food.
You would be surprised by how many people tell chefs to cook. "Can I get a side of fries instead of rice?" Please ask for all kinds of bizarre changes to menu items. People going to steak restaurants asking for a vegan options are the worst. Can you imagine going to a vegan restaurant and demanding they make you a steak?
This show absolutely blew me away. I was enthralled from the start to the finish of each episode. I learned so much about farming and gained sympathy for them, for things I never even knew were challenges they faced. It’s also further strengthened my disdain for local councils and their micromanagement over minutia, and my disdain for bureaucracy in general.
I always had a respect for farmers before watching Clarkson’s Farm, after watching it I now have an immense amount of respect and gratitude for them. The amount of bulls got they have to deal with JUST to grow crops and raise livestock is ridiculous. Add in British Bureaucracy and the fact that England has any farms at all is mind boggling.
Really then why did he vote for brexit? You do know that most of what they are running into is because of that. The council was a annoyance but anyone with a brain would know they were just being petty blue hairs, that was not the real issues they are having. Weather yep that is a problem always has been. It is the pricing that does is not gotten into. Oh well most farmers there have realized that they were sold a can of nothing.
Yet can't follow basics like "I agreed to only sell items made within 36 miles in this shop" or "food products have standards" or "planing ahead and getting permission BEFORE I act will make people less mad at me"
@@Ceser1999 Oh he did those and I have always felt he was an ass, really didn't watch Top Gear that much due to him. Yet that council in the end was straight up being asses. And the items, that gold digger that got her hooks in him is more to blame there, it is "her" shop.... what did that person do before this?
The way I heard Councils described years ago was “Dustmen in the day, Directors at night. And that still stands today. Mostly nosey busy bodies with nothing going on in their lives, who love to interfere in other people’s lives.
No one becomes a councillor in this country because they want to help people. They become councillors because they want to shape the country in their image, and everyone else are little children that can't be trusted with anything more dangerous than plastic spoons.
The Cotswolds are the most notorious boomer pensioneer hideouts in all of the UK. Him blowing up his house started the whole vendetta. They're thankfully being outed on international streaming ❤
I'm Canadian and watch this show on Prime Canada. I have to say I didn't realize just how difficult it is to farm. I'm sure the same is happening here in Canada. I love this show, the humor, the sadness as well as the difficulties with the local authorities that all farmers have to deal with.
What i like about the show is that. Jeremy could have easily turned it into making a documentary and be on with it. But he stayed there, lived like one and shown what everyday farmers had to go through made me like him more
Raised on a ranch in Canada and the show did a great job of showing the real parts of farming/ranching life. We got some top gear style gags as well, which is fun with Clarkson really knowing how to put on a good show, and it really appears he was trying his best especially with his animals.
From an American, he really makes it clear that it is backbreaking work that will grind down most people, and it really raises questions about what could happen if there’s a food shortage when the governments sets up farmers to fail
My GF only knew of him from watching bits of Top Gear but after the first season she was really impressed with how interesting he made the show, and entertaining. The man knows how to make some great TV, even if he is a bit of a knob at times. And I liked he was all in to keep things going with his crops and animals, as a kid who grew up on a ranch I don't think he was faking that. Glad he got more people to realize just how hard farming can be and how easy it would be to see most go bankrupt.
Jeremy deserves an OBE for services to agriculture for those shows and what they have done to raise both the profile of farming and the issues they face.
I really hope season 4 has more round table conversations with other farmers listening to their issues with the government and councils. Makes bloody good TV when the hypocrisy of government and environmental groups are highlighted.
"the government is paying farmers to grow wild flowers, not wheat, then they import wheat from Brazil where they have to clear rainforest to make space" This is precisely the issue with farming in most of Europe, Governments impose taxes and regulations that make it _very difficult_ for farmers to survive without subsidies then use those subsidies to undermine profitable farming operations to benefit bulk-goods importers from third world countries that use international grants and loans to subsidize agricultural food-production - those loans are then payed out with interest to banks in Europe who use the same interest to invest in asset management/holdings firms where legislators have large stakes, it's usually these same firms that _own_ the import/export companies too. The environmental impact of this cycle, from clearcutting/burning to emissions, regulations evasion and emissions from transit and logistics are then used to justify "green" initiatives in Europe like planting flowers, environmental regulations etc. to "greenwash" and obfuscate the problems at play. The same "greenwashing" is also used to curry favor with young voters and extend harmful environmental laws to undermine other sectors of society and, at the end, your own wallet - all to the tremendous profit of legislators and their financiers. What's more, politically, it's a lot easier for the government to deal with one or two large corporations than it is for them to deal with tens of thousands of farmers when it comes to making decisions, especially ones that would look terrible if publicized or written into actual law so they prefer that option in general. That's to mention nothing of the damage this entire process does to the local circumstances in those third world exporters where people have to _live_ with that environmental impact and corruption in a much more direct way. Socio-economic conditions which are frequently used as an excuse for why legions of young people need to be imported into Europe to simultaneously undermine both European labour _and_ the prospects of any of these other countries actually ever getting better.
We are black family with farming history, I am not a farmer because I choose engineering. However, my father and brothers are farmers. Unfortunately they had to sell piece of their farm due to bills pilling up few months ago. The bills, are costs of the farm. The fertilizers have almost doubled in priced past few years, the taxes have gone up considerably. Their buyers are paying less because they too are in the slums.
Son of a greek farmer here, i also left my dad's farm without EU support and goverment subsities it would be imposible to compete in such a market. Sure one less farmer, but thats common in this country and the prices only go up. We only made profit from wheat only after the war in Ukraine after that the prices plummeted but the price of bread from 0.70 a kilo went to 1.0 euros per kilo. I dont know mate seems rather bleak this situation...
Son of an English farmer here. We sold in 2009 for a cut-down price and now the new owner (not a farmer) is using their finances and relationship with the local councils to build houses and make millions.
@@arthur9924 Always the same story... My hometown used to be a prosperous farming community in the 1980s. Nowadays, they fill the fields and the marshes along the river to build stupid houses that will be flooded because it's a flood plain. Meanwhile, the same city councils can't stop blaring about me having take important actions to save the planet... but hey, destroying acres of farmlands, marshes and sources of food isn't important. BTW, my brother is a farmer too who purchased the neighbor's farm more than two decades ago. His business was doing fine, but now he has downsized his activities. He knows that it's just a matter of time before his land will be placated by residential taxes due to urban encroachment and he will have to sell.
Let us not forget there is global war on famers for the environmental agenda. The Netherlands is closing down farms to meet climate goals, France, New Zealand etc. have tightened regulations for similar reasons, same in the US state of California. Oregon water usage regulations are hurting the small farmers. czcams.com/video/Ca6Bq9kcjYM/video.htmlsi=xxfZ7N7lxAJx6DkS
I am utterly astounded at the level of BS and bureaucracy in the UK. The fact farmers have to register every animal on their farms is beyond madness. Or from season one, having to tell the gov what crops they plan on growing in each field. Jog on.
Jo. The animal identification thing came about because of a disease that devastated livestock in this country about 22 years ago. But you are right, the amour of regulation etc is bonkers.
My uncles (mother's side, 1 of 15) have a farm in upstate New York. From what I heard they didn't has so much trouble with the town council with their fruit farm, but they did have plenty of trouble with a historical society when they tried to put up a cell tower and rent the space out to cell providers. It took years for that whole kerfuffle to get settled.
I am not sure Jeremy is very impressed with the BBC programme "Country File" and the way it treats farming. I would never watch Country File, but Clarkson's Farm is very enjoyable.
I've heard farmers describe Country File as "a program about farming made by people who live in cities". They hate it. It's all very surface level and idealistic. It doesn't really show the reality of farming and is more interested in showing off cute baby animals, pretty shots of nature, and talking about how lovely someones home-made jam is. The whole show is basically just one big fluff piece.
He's creating awareness to an important topic through entertainment. Sure, he's not the most efficient or effective farmer by a country mile, but he sheds light on aspects of farming that are difficult for real farmers who depend on it for a living, and that is very valuable. He's using his platform for good!
What makes Clarkson’s Farm such a good and educational show is that it really brings to life just how physically, mentally and emotionally taxing the experience of being a farmer actually is. Other farming shows can talk to death about the bad weather, lack of government subsidies and the cost of seeds and fertiliser. But in Clarkson’s farm, we get to see the moment Jeremy dies inside when he learns an entire crop has failed and thousands of pounds have just gone down the drain. We get to see him sitting at a computer trying to fill in one of the many, many forms he has to do just to sell a new product or register some new animals. We get to see him and all his neighbours tear their hair out because the power-tripping NIMBYs at the local council keep getting in the way of genuine attempts at diversification and job creation. We get to see him and Lisa having an emotional breakdown when they lose yet another piglet. And we get to see how complicated and fiddly the equipment and the process of farming is in practice. What also helps is that it’s Jeremy Clarkson who’s doing it. For better or worse, there’s a lot of history to him, and his name automatically generates images of buffoonery and generally being a bit of an arse. But he’s also a layman with no background in farming - when he started out, he knew about as much about farming as the rich bankers in the City of London, as many politicians in Parliament and even a few civil servants at DEFRA, and indeed as much as any city folk with no countryside experience. So to non-farmers, it was easier to imagine what it would be like for us to be in his shoes.
He has transformed the industry's perception for the better. Growing up, I thought farming was whatever you see on Countryfile. Then you realise, there's even an agenda behind that. Yes, he had the money to start and buy the best kit in the first place but he still does ultimately portray a great insight into the industry.
I've been editing on Premiere pro for a while now and watching your vids makes me realise just how much work you put in them. Honestly you're so underrated and I love how you edit. Keep up the great work
We’re really enjoying the show. It’s very entertaining and educational. I have so much respect for farmers and what they go through in all aspects of farming and dealing with the town and residents. The show keeps it very real.
Thanks soo much for making a video on Clarkson’s farm showing even more people the life’s of farmers im a young farmer and im worried for my future and my family farm thank you for showing an interest into this topic
I've watched what will happen if farmers are pushed out of their farms, where I live was orchards, the first thing the regional government did was to pay growers to rip out the trees and plant grapes for wine, they have since been adding regulation after regulation making it more difficult and expensive to continue, if the owner is forced to declare bankruptcy or gets foreclosed on, within months local government changes zoning and the land is now being used for high value housing. So we lose local fruit, jobs, taxes and the rich get a big lot in what was agricultural land, but at least we gained nothing.
I'm absolutely certain that no one in the local government, and certainly no one related to anyone in local government, has real-estate or builder interests that benefit from large tracts of buildable land suddenly coming onto the market at firesale prices.
@@MrKoobuh Oh, so you think it's difficult for the person (company) that has an interest in real estate to drop something interesting to the mailbox of the local government? People acting like corruption is rare
That's the story of my hometown... a once prosperous farming community that is destroyed, day by day, to make room for idiotic urban planning in the middle of a known flood plain.
Sure he could sell up and piss off into the sunset but i don't he ever would. He's developed a great relationship with too many people and not so many with the usual a'holes that have done their best to block him at every turn. Caleb you can tell deep down thinks the best of him and | think that relationship is unbreakable now.
one of the reason I think people love this show (including me) is the fact jeremy is not a farmer, he don't know anything about it, so as he learn on how to do it, we the audience learn it too and as he struggle and facing difficulty, we also saw it first hand what kind of problem that may arise
As a farmer myself, all subsidies should be gotten rid of. Subsidies encourage poor management and lower profit margins. Just look to New Zealand as an example of what can be done when you eliminate subsidies. They radically changed their farming practices and became a world leader in pasture raised/grass fed animals. Subsidizing wheat/corn/etc causes us to do stupid things like feeding a ruminant grain…
@@fiddleyWhich is why subsidies/entitlements usually end when it becomes so unsustainable that they just collapse under the weight of themselves. Government is terrible at being proactive and spending never diminishes until it’s forced to via collapse of the currency or something other catastrophe.
"became a world leader in pasture raised/grass fed animals" so luxury produce. Let's just convert all farm to luxury produce, what could go wrong! Oh what's that? Nobody can afford it? It's oversupplied so the price went down? Can't feed the cattle because it can no longer eat the subsidized grains? Great fucking idea.
@@Moses_VII No. subsidies are there to provide insurance against acts of God (damaging weather/drought/flooding/etc). There are also price controls that try and smooth our locations from things like bumper crops plummeting the cost of a crop, or prices skyrocketing due to drought. The problem with insurance/price controls is it encourages farmers to mono-crop and focus on 1/2 crops. This is damaging ecologically, as well as economically. If there were no safety nets, farmers would have to spread their risk over a wider variety of crops/animals which would be better ecologically and economically for the farmer. Subsidies actually trap farmers in poverty. Which is why all the leading farmers in regenerative agriculture farm multiple crops/animals and don’t rely on government programs to be profitable.
Love him or hate him, he's done more to show the struggles of farmers to the wider public than anyone!. Bloody local council and government Noddies!. Tall Poppy syndrome!, yes he's got the 'dosh' to do it, but! He cares!. Nuff said.
Hate councils. Like children no value for money or what it takes to earn it. In their eyes doesn’t matter how much they waste there’s always more. Anti business anti people. Longs they are ok they don’t care
Unfortunately doesn’t matter who we vote for most councillors own self interests and agendas are not for our benefit. Those who genuinely want to make change and do better get beat down by bureaucracy and stupid bylaws. I’m from Thurrock(verge of bankruptcy) which is and always been either corrupt or inept. All the people with the skills to make this country better work in private sector. Who can blame them.
as per all the people who have visited his farm and the farm shop. (more than 20k people have visited the farm shop) most videos say its only Jeremy and Kaleb farming with 1-2 camera guys walking and following behind, so Jeremy would be a Land owner and also a farmer.
@@stesso9biggest difference is land ownership obviously. Tenants won't think of land taxes like land owner farmers do. However, they could get squeezed thin by the rent costs the owner charged.
@@A7XFan800there is no comparison between paying taxes and rent at least in my country greece. difference is x20 in favour of taxes. Moreover big ag is not sustainable cause of extremely low margins and huge depreciation costs. Getting bigger isn't the solutionb at least usually in agriculture.
Ok, it took me a while to realize this video wasn't Sunny. As someone who loves his channel, this is a heartfelt compliment, and basically just because the editing is similarly excellent and your voice is quite similar.
After watching this show, my respect for farmers has grown immensely. Honestly I don’t even understand why anybody would do this, except for the kindness of their heart and because they know how necessary it is. The cost of entry are incredibly high, the labor is unbelievably hard, the working hours would have any HR department chain you to your bed and then you still barely make any money. The thing is, this is Jeremy Clarkson. He has an huge following and very deep pockets. Also he can film anything he does and turn it into the most watched show on the internet in an instant. So he can afford a bad year. He can build a shop and have it completely sold empty half an hour after opening. He can open a restaurant and have it booked for years before even opening. And even if all of that fails to make a profit, he will film it and make a couple million that way. But guess who can’t do all that and still deals with the same struggles. Correct. Anyone else that does farming. If anybody wanted to get into farming, they would probably need a large loan unless they had a ton of money or the land prior to that. If they have a bad year, they can’t pay the loan this year, if they want to diversify their farming, they need another loan to cover the costs, if they want to open a shop or a restaurant, it would take years and cost a lot of money to even get the message out.
It sounds like selling in Jeremy's farm shop is the only thing keeping the local lady who supplies the milk afloat as well as several other local producers and the local council almost took that from them.
Being upfront, I've never liked Clarkson as a person/personality figure. However, this show is utterly fantastic (mostly because it's people telling him what to do and then he ignores it and they are proven correct) and he deserves all the credit for it. I'm a small business owner in a rural area who deals with farmers on occasion and some of their struggles have just been beyond belief. The fact it's making people seem to care more about the countryside is a very big win in my opinion. Personally I'm still struggling to see how the majority of farmers believed brexit was a good idea, but putting that aside, the way they've been treated by this government has just been horrific. As someone else said, it isn't just farms going through struggles at the moment with the big boys pushing on them, but I'm glad it's been highlighted.
@@GeneralChangFromDanangif you really want to try jezza's cider you might want to look into uk parcel forwarders. basically they'll give you a uk address (think PO box) that you can have stuff delivered to, then they repack it and ship it to you internationally for a fee. there are plenty of companies that'll do this, although i've never used any myself, so i'm afraid i can't give you a recommendation.
@@bigblockman11 lol this is a crazy assertion, yes the government doesn't have your best interests in mind - but if people were starving the first people to be targeted would be people in the government.
Time was I knew sweet fuck all about farming. After watching Clarksons Farm I know believe wholeheartedly that farmers are the undisputed MVP’s of society
The gall of politicians and people to virtue signal farmers who provide the nation's food for "destroying the environment" while they themselves push for a "better looking" environment at the cost of local food production and not actually contributing anything helpful is downright despicable
There is a tug of war honestly. On the one hand Rewilding would be good for unfucking England's ecosystem, on the other hand the only reason the government is picking on farmers to help lower carbon emissions is because they have far less political power than the other big polluters. I'd rather not see farmers lose everything to offset the environmental targets for billionaire tycoons honestly.
@@UnnamedThinkTank human industrial farming capacity is already more than enough to sustain the lives of all humans currently alive and populations are declining. Human hunger isn't an issue of supply, its a logistical issue. If food was transported more efficiently we wouldn't need as many farms.
@@UnnamedThinkTank well, given that you can't grow food in a shit environment probably the environment. it would do well to remember that we are living in the environment as well.
I am from Mexico and I freakin love this show. It had become one of my favourite and now I am watching other shows from Jeremy. It's just amazing the worl he does.
I just binged the entire show so far. It had been sitting on my watch list for a while. I do think one small issue with the show is that each season sort of feels a bit like he is restarting the farm. He talked about how bad of an investment the sheep were for instance. Which relative to some of the other stuff he got, yeah. But after the first year, he doesn't need to buy the initial sheep anymore. and as the flock grows, so does the income from it. Now there is of course rising costs there too, more food and medical care needed. But it's much harder to start out then to already be in. Which I think is what the show, displays very well. The upfront investments are staggering. As this video shows, a lot of farmers like people in the trades are getting older. Not only is their going to be a shortage of labor in these types of jobs. But the tools needed to do them will probably disappear and new people looking to dip their toes in, likely will not have the capital to invest in it.
I never thought I'd like Clarkson's Farm until I watched a youtuber called Junkyard Digs. That dude normally does car stuff but has two plots of land and revives once retired equipment to run and plant again. After enjoying essentally the budget version, i watched Clarkson and enjoyed it immensely.
As somrone who grew up on a dairy farm in Maine, U.S.A. I watch and support many youtube farmers as I can. Farming is the hardest most thankless job in the world.
It's SUBSIDY, not subsidiary ya fucking melon!! 😠
This is what you get for having voiceover by bot. Or, if not a bot, by someone who thinks that sounding like a bot is cool.
(It isn't.)
@@VideoMikeA4 🤣🤣🤣 bruv this is literally just my voice
@@phatmemer69 I'll put me hand up, guv. Well done👍
No it's not, you're literally just saying the word wrong. You also say orangery wrong too.@@phatmemer69
no.... clarkson has correct opinions about enviormentalists
also, they did it themselves with brexit... you got what you deserve
So you're telling me that Clarkson took a topic that was only being covered on TV in a boring, dry manner aimed at people who already had that interest, injected his personality and humor into it, and actually got outsiders interested in that topic?
Impossible.
madness, i know
yeah people forget that's Clarksons talent
Its Jeremy. If someone was to adress this and make it well known, best pick would be him
The same happened on Top Gear when Jeremy took control
He should make a career out of it.
I just hate the local council
I think it speaks to everyone that has had to deal with a terrible local council, or getting fuckswatched by bureaucratic nonsense.
When a story like this describes a conflict using this many "basically" it's usually a good idea to take it with a grain of salt and assume that it's more nuanced than presented 😂
Same lol
Councils are almost always just privileged white people who only care about themselves.
Doesnt everyone in the uk😂😂
@@sproge2142 one usually should. but why did the mediator in season 3 shoot down nearly all of the council's objections?
Convinced Clarkson is low key a genius. I have exactly 0 interest in cars but I would never miss a single episode of top gear. Same thing happened here with farming. He plays the inept buffon so well it means he's underestimated. Meanwhile he educates and remains incredibly versed on a vast range of topics.
Inept buffoon is just his role in topgear, thats why he has this stereotype
Sometimes... My genius... It frightens me...
Totally agree, couldn't care less about cars or farming but I've watched all the top gear/grand tour specials and all of clarksons farm. He is a genius.
Come to think of it, everything I ever learned about cars came from Top Gear
Clarkson was the brains behind Top Gear, once you see his other programmes he's done with the BBC, you really get to see his intellectual curiosity.
There was a video of a bunch of French farmers thanking Jeremy Clarkson. That is how you truly know he did good by farmers
i've watched top gear for years. indeed it says a lot
they did that while dumping manure on the doorstep of government offices, gotta love the french
@@PancakeBoiyou could knock the French for many reasons but one thing they don’t do is put up with bullshit from the establishment
The stupidity of that local council is best highlight of that show.
It's malice
Democracy. It's a shite system but it's the best we've found so far. That council is sort if like a Rotten Borough in reverse - a greater number of townies vote in noobs who dictate what happens in the wider area, applying their townie desires to what is fundamentally a rural area. Not exactly representation.
@@janelleg597 I've learned thoroughly by now to never attribute to stupidity, what can be explained by malice. It apparently used to be the other way around, but I've seen FAR too much evidence to the contrary in the last 10 years.
@@Archris17 Yeah, stupidity only goes so far and these local councils have been in power for ages. They cannot claim this excuse at all. It's insanity to me that some dusty power hungry assholes can mandate what you can and cannot do on your own land to such an extend. I understand that some oversight is necessary, but this has clearly gone too far for too long.
@@Archris17 It's even mentioned in the show that a lot of those objections from council are just because of Jeremy. They don't like the idea of him having profit from the show but wheter they like it or not he is helping the local farmers as much as he can and they are failing to realize that their objections and obstructions won't hurt Clarkson nowhere nearly as much as it hurts the other farmers he teams up with. So it's malice towards Jeremy and stupidity for everyone else involved.
A farmer I used to know years ago, someone at the coffee shop asked him what he would do if he won the lottery, he scratched his head through his hat and said, “well i’d keep farmin till every cent was gone!” Sounds like nothing has changed
yup the money just kept running out faster.
With the price of seeds and fertilizers, that's definitely.
I asked my Grandad when I was wee small how to become a millionaire thru farming. His reply was "the secret is to start out as a billionaire"
2M dollars wouldn't last two years
The only way to make money through farming is either owning the land for 100 years or selling it.
My father used to dislike Clarkson as he used to think of him as a bombastic idiot. After watching Clarkson farm my father now thinks he’s a brave bombastic idiot. Honestly, I wasn’t expecting to see Jeremy crying when his animals got sick, frustrated with red tape and just the shock when he realised that if it wasn’t for Amazon’s money he had long gone under. This show really puts a spot light on how delicate our food chain and environment is.
Well, he still says he pay for it himself. Amazon pays for production and etc, but most expenses covered by Jeremy. That's why he say if he want to keep farming, he will need to go into London and host some Who wants to be a Billioner shows to cover expenses
It seems like these british council are just irl reddit mods powertripping
They seem more like garry's mod mods
Thats a lot of small local governments when they end up being run by old folks who have nothing to do with their time than bitch and moan.
@@SOADfan121That’s pretty much all governments of any size. 99% of government is a waste at best, and actively evil at worst.
They seem like some insane HOA
HOA's final form
I used to get annoyed getting stuck behind a tractor while driving though the countryside.
Not anymore after watching Clarkson's Farm. I have much respect to farmers now!
This is why I think Clarkson deserves a knighthood. He's made everyone much more aware of not just how important farmers are, but also just how hard their life is.
@@CristiNeagu He's done very good work but please don't let him accept one from Charles. This effing dirty monarchy has got to go!
@@brokenglassshimmerlikestar3407 Nope. The monarchy must absolutely be kept. Just cause Charles is dirty and does dealings with the scum of the Earth doesn't mean the concept of the British monarchy is wrong. Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.
@@CristiNeagu clarkson is too decent to be lumped in with the likes of sir rolf harris, sir jimmy savile, sir nick clegg, et al
@@lb5818 screaming at Nick Clegg being lumped with Harris and Saville 😭
lol if Jeremy who has a shit ton of money can't make a farm work and be profitable then you know things are really bad for farming. Also Amazon is paying for the show so even with there backing he is still losing money
@@RedTail1-1bet you didn't even watched a single episode of the show. Lmao. He contracted Kaleb (started his contracting business when he was 13 years old) and Charlie (an actual professional in the agriculture business, and more), both who are incredibly experienced farm managers . Who actually know how to run a farm. You think they were just paid actors on there?
Us farmers are actually losing money, year after year, as the government continue to fvck us up.
Go hate somewhere else. You're not helping anyone here. Or ever. You're a waste of oxygen.
@RedFail1-1 that's not true at all. kaleb was 21 when he was on the first season.. also its a clear issue. (At least in the u.k right now) I watch many farmers that have done this for many many years that express the same things that Clarkson does.
@@RedTail1-1Kaleb had been farming the land since he was 12 and knew it all like the back of his hand and was already working on the farm as a contractor before Jeremy started that show
@@RedTail1-1 You missed the part where he hired a farm manager then? one who knows his shit
@@RedTail1-1 Apparently you just saw the funny bits on youtube instead of actually watching the show. Kaleb is an actual contractor that works in a dozen of different farms, not only Jeremy's and he has been there years before Clarkson started the show doing his job. Also, the specialist you're talking about, they have one and he's featured on the show as well...
Really easy to say when it ain't you doing the hard work.
That prick at number 10 "don't knock so loud or ill throw you out" that's exactly the level of contempt the higher ups have for the common man!
Agree'd, such a nice little window into their minds. Quite a slip up on their part.
That scene really annoyed me you described the guy the best a prick.
absolutely, they dont even pretend to serve, cant wait for their comeuppance
Fourth generation farmer here. My son would have been the fifth but we had to sell out when he was just a boy.
Jeremy clearly identifies with this class of hardworking and honest people, and he has artfully and ingeniously done when no one else could have. I myself still identify as a farmer. You can take the boy off the farm, but you can’t take the farm out of the boy.
I hear you. George Washington, Harry Truman, and Billy Graham all grew up on farms.
@@HuntingTargold McDonald as well
@@mannyfox8089 He couldn't even get all his vowels right.
The caterpillar on the other hand...
My brother got taken to a farm, im guessing it worked out, cause i havn't heard from him.
Respect!
I'll be honest. I wouldn't know a thing about farming, or the awfull position our government has put farmers in without watching Clarkson.
He deserves a medal and the farmers deserve a hell of a lot more support from the top. 👍
Brexit and climate change have shafted our farmers
The government are intentionally trying to cause a famine. People like you with your head in the clouds need to wake up.
Its the combination of rural areas being represented by neoliberal parties which crushes support structures combined with a lot of progressive economic policies exluding these areas due to them not being present in these political parties.
Its sad that these crucial people and industries are getting left out to dry, especially as they have exactly the same problems as people in the cities
Farmers are some of the richest people in the world, they’re doing quite fine.
@@nlmaster9811 they have an important job to do.
The local council is actually doing JC a favour because it shows exactly the thing that is what problems farmers has.
Interesting point
it is. abide it is exaggerated because they don't like his way of business in the first place. They want him to stick with conventional method, keeping the rural, rural, so to speak. But it is clearly insane under the economic climate.
@@nightsage217
The fun part is this series is JC his incompetence, the sad part is the local council’s incompetence
@@nightsage217 Yeah. I mean I get the very vague intent of the local council. BUT HOLY SHIT THEY ARE SO FUCKING OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY. This man is goddamn TRYING to diversify his income in order to continue the farming operation because the climate(physical, economic and political) is making just pure farming near impossible to profit from. AND THEY FUCKING BLOCK THAT SHIT BECAUSE BOOHOO I'M AN OLD TWAT. If they had their say the entire area they live in would just no longer have any farms because of their bullshit and then their lives go down the shitter because now everyone there fucking migrates to the urban areas because nothing is left.
Shortsighted fucks, I swear.
@@KokkiePiet The local council is very competent, they are doing what they do best very very well.
My family have been growing soy for over 3 decades down here in Brazil... What as a shock for me was the amount of bureaucracy for doing anything in your land... If I want to build a new gate, I ll do it, If I want to build a restaurant, go for it... Basically, we can do anything we want in here, apart from cutting down native trees.
What about growing the Coca plant? Asking for uh... friend.
@@commandernomad2817 That is mostly done in Colombia, Peru and Central America. Is like asking a British citizen about the weather today in the Mediterranean Sea.
@@carlosagnwesterners aye, i apologize on behalf of us 😂
I don't even live in UK and i fucking hate that local council.
Same
Unfortunately basically all councils are like that
@@jamieswanson4450 I dunno, i think whoever the local council is for Colin Furze is very accommodating. The bunch Clarkeson has ended up with would have crucified furze by now.
@@spodula you have a point on that I didn't think about that even though I've been watching him for years but I'd personally say that they are the exception to the rule however I am obviously quite biased
Clarkson’s farm is what got me into gardening, now I’m growing more berries than I can eat
I've got four Henry Hoovers washed and ready to go come autumn.
I've started growing my own root vegetables and tomatoes in my garden and find it very fulfilling
Fuck yeah. What kind of berries?
Gimme some bruh
Make jam, put it in a jar, sell it if you cant eat it within 6 months
This is the perfect example of using your fame to bring light to issues that normal people like me would have never known about. I am only watching this show because of his personality, but now I'm interested in his journey as a farmer. Hell, if I had the resources and means I'd start a farm.
It’s a trap! As a farmer myself I can’t detail enough on why nobody NOBODY should be getting into farming right now. Every year is getting worse and worse, at least in my country the USA. We have the government breathing down our necks with “carbon credits” along with government agencies imposing restrictions on what we can and can’t use and when or when we cannot use said products. It’s a nightmare! Not to mention commodity prices are down, interest rates up, inflation up, etc etc etc. everything is up except the one thing we need to go up COMMODITY PRICES.
Apologies for the rant, but I want to leave off on this, family farms here in America are dying, we’re slowly going extinct, not because we’ve lost the passion or love for what we do, but because we’re being forced out. Forced out either by government impositions or just not being able to afford it anymore. In the media, farmers are painted as these devils who raise cattle that have atmosphere killing farts and drive huge machinery that destroys every living thing in its path all while spewing emissions! While if anything were the biggest conservationists out there, keeping our soils alive and healthy and growing everything people rely on, all while being trampled by the media and government. There’s a reason why farmers are some of the most prone people to commit suicide. We don’t need thanks, we just need recognition, real recognition and representation.
@@snowdirt2529 man, at this point I just want to see these people who are complaining about farms and farmers to one day see the consequences of having no farmers.
They will and they will starve. And there will be no govt to help them. Meanwhille we, who farm (or used to) and have some equipment will be the ones doing best.@@itcaboi1707
Maybe you can just start a garden
I think it wasn't his intention to bring attentiont to general public about the struggles of farming. I'd say it wasn't his intention, but the fact you stated still remains true
I'm watching it with my girlfriend. She's Chinese. We live in China. This shows reach is far further and more eye opening than anyone ever couldve expected.
Dif country same kinda of struggle lol
Truly a small world innit
VPN go brrrrr lol
I know Latin Americans love the show because it reminds them of their struggles
I doubt China's bureaucrats are much wiser than the British ones when it comes to farming. They also have an extremely serious urban-rural divide and rural drain problem, all the young people are moving out of the countryside and into the big eastern cities like Shanghai. There are farming villages and towns in China with no children or young people at all in them.
As someone from a farming family, the statement that Clarkson has done more for British farming than countryfile ever has resonates with not just us, but almost any farmer I have spoken too. Hats off to the man.
I’ve had my farmer neighbours here in SW France rave about this show as it’s educating the French townies on farming and where their food comes from way better than the French government ever has.
I just imagined bunch of farmers in a shed have Rave party with bunch of smoke machines and neon light and lazers everywhere 😂
Je suis moi même paysan dans le sud ouest, et il nous faudrait un Clarkson français pour réveiller les gens!
@@nawan6266 A "French Clarkson" sounds like the most cursed and blessed concept of a man at the same time
@@MegaJani We definitely don't need another Clarkson. Much less French. God.
@@MegaJani I can't help but feel like the reason the english and french have had such a longstanding feud is because they're very similar in many ways. Which is why i have no trouble imagining Jeremy Filsclark in all his glory, saving the french from mediocre television and a lack of knowledge about farming.
Once the series had begun Clarkson had no idea what to do as a farmer, he didn’t know what he needed to buy, not knowing his farm wasn’t exactly as big as other farmers had, but as the first season went on he was slowly learning how farming works and a lot of people and myself who haven’t had any experiences with farming were learning it like Clarkson. Many farmers and tractor drivers could relate on the ups and downs of farming. This series is not scripted it’s a real life story of man who was an outsider to nature but he is and is still learning how every other farmers feel.
(In the most comedic way possible haha)
Canadian farmer here . I only knew of Jeramey from my interest in cars. Loved the series ! In Canada western Canada we have fought subsidies because of our low population not funding to compete. Most of the European subsidies were derived from not wanting to depend on other countries for food after the second world war. Eventually things iron out .Most of the world doesn’t care about where their food comes from as long as it’s on the shelf. In reality,food ,shelter,heat and health are all that really matters. Producing food within your own country is so important and needs to be encouraged.
Exactly! From Canada too. I'm always amazed how people have completely forgotten that farmers are the backbone of civilization that keeps them alive... I was visiting Eastern Quebec last weekend and was appalled to see perfect farmland being planted with tree monocultures. It's complete madness.
As an IT system consultant I couldn't know much less about farming, but as a fan of Top Gear and Grand Tour I just had to pick up Clarkson's Farm and it's the best bit of television I've ever watched. I got to enjoy all of Top Gears finest about 10 years ago in my mid twenties and it was the best thing ever. Now a bit more mature I can watch Clarkson's Farm and really appreciate everything he does and understand to absolutely loathe the town council and just the bureucracy overall.
I've gotten my wife, my brothers and friends to watch the show as well and have yet to hear from anyone that they don't care for it. As a 64 year old British multimillionaire (and farmer) he is the most relatable celebrity I've ever watched and that's the key with his success I think, especially with his farming show. I hope he never quits farming and that he has the energy to continue making the show for years to come.
Quick clarification: It's not just Brexit per se, but how it was handled. Farmers were promised subsidies equal to that of EU subsidies that they got before we left the EU. That simply didn't happen. And since Britain paid into the EU allowing those subsidies to be funded, the Government have effectively pocketed that money. It's disgusting, and no one has called the Government out for it, and instead just blanket blame Brexit.
ye brexit was about national sovereignty, it could have been a magnificent step to y'know letting the citizens of said country actually have a say in how it's run, but instead they botched the actual exit, promised shit they didnt deliver on and in the end continued or increased the activities people were upset about
@@goranpersson7726Yeah that was never the goal or the plan and everyone with half a brain told you but you didn’t listen.
@@goranpersson7726 There was never going to be a good brexit. The whole concept was flawed. Making excuses about "the way it was handled" etc is just defying the obvious, all the things that the remoaners told you would happen. What was dismissed as "project fear", unsurprisingly to anyone who did any real research, became project reality.
@@alkaholic4848 the UK could have handled it better and can definitely do just fine and even thrive without the EU. it just takes a bit of preparation, finding other trading partners incase of the exit souring relations building up the economy to handle the stuff that used to be imported etc.
it has the commonwealth connections to rely on and a fairly good relation with the US.
Most of the problems are in fact stuff like promising benefits that werent gonna be delivered (farmer subsidies) and having way way too much regulation.
the green stuff is all nice and good if you pretend that increased costs of living arent a problem most of the regulations for those could honestly been removed and it would have lowered costs dramatically for farmers and for those who *want* that to happen still they could just buy from the ones that do it anyways as there would still be a market for such goods and therefor people would make it.
it really is a case of "let's leave the EU but refuse to prepare for it and let's keep all the stuff that was implemented due to the EU that increases production costs even though we have now removed the cashflow that would pay for it" (no im not saying all green policies were due to the EU, some were however and I wasnt talking about only green policies but they're an easy example)
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There's a lot of issues with using the commonwealth and US etc to replace it.
1. I don't know if you own a globe, if not google maps will do the job. They're several thousands of miles away. And despite all our modern technology, it still makes a massive difference. You could get goods from the EU extremely quickly and cheaply pre-brexit, you'll never get goods quickly and cheaply from Canada or Australia for example.
2. The commonwealth's industrial/commercial capacity, and population is tiny in comparison to the EU. For example even somewhere as massive and resource-rich as Canada, still has a lower GDP than France alone, never mind the rest of Europe. And Canada's population is less than half of France, never mind the rest of Europe.
3. We already had relationships with all these other countries. Brexit doesn't give us any advantages in trading with other countries. In fact it gives us much of a disadvantage. Because it's as difficult for these countries to arrange trade (or investment) with Britain now as it is the EU, but the EU is a much bigger market, so whereas before if they wanted to trade with the UK it would open up, by extension, the rest of Europe as a market. Now it makes more sense for them to organise trade / invest in a European country - which opens up a bigger market, than it does the tiny UK alone.
Most of the regulations that were implemented by the EU are either necessary for trade, or are too expensive to regulate by ourselves so it makes more sense to use the system already in place, or they just make sense and removing them would be detrimental.
As for investing in things like farming, one of the biggest things the EU had going for it was limiting tax-dodging, and redistributing wealth to help support industrial/commercial/agricultural growth, particularly in poorer areas, and workers rights. Leaving it was always going to give more power and control to the wealthy. Which we're unsurprisingly seeing now. It also forces Britain to rely heavier on the US, which will gradually see their capitalist-dystopia weave into our society more, which we already are doing with things like their medical giants giving back-handers to our politicians etc to try to drive out the NHS in order to let them take over.
The thing is that Jeremy is an armature farmer. He himself has stated that when he started he knew nothing about farming at all. Just like every other person who isnt a farmer. So when he learns something the audience does too. We go through many assumptions and discover the reality of the situation. People take framers for granted when in reality they are literally one of the only reasons society can even exist. The fact that the UK government is quietly killing off their own farming industry and nobody but the farmers know about it is tragic. Now farmers are getting the respect they deserve.
Yeah aside from being a natural entertainer, the learning as he goes aspect definitely helped with the appeal.
For the mass audiences that know nothing about farming, everything that surprised Jeremy, everything that he didn't know, everything that caught him out, are the same things the audience were thinking the same thing. He came into it from the layman's perspective, and that makes it more interesting to watch for all the other farming laymans.
My mom and dad decided to become cattle ranchers when I was around 7... moved out to the middle of no-where and we had to learn everything (although my dad's family had a few cattle and such as a kid, but very small time) as we went. There were a lot of times in the show that brought up memories or similar situations especially with the cattle of trying to deal with all the same problems he had. My GF agreed that he did an amazing job showing off how hard things are to ranch/farm and bring the audience with him as he learned and grew. And also got to have fun watching him fuck up some things like his tractor implement connecting each damned time!
Oh, the British government cares about farmers. Just not British farmers. They love Australian farmers though, all that lovely, cheap beef full of hormones and other crap that's illegal in the UK!
Honestly the UK government isn't completely to blame, because the Farmers voted their own demise just as much.
EVERYONE with half a brain was screaming that Brexit was a terrible idea. EVERYONE was telling them that they would lose so much, including the EU money. Instead, the Farmers voted in favor of Brexit, under the delusional assumption that the UK government would just cover the cost with money that would appear magically once they left and everyone will be happy.
Farming isn't easy across Europe and the UK farmers are having a terrible time, but you can't help to lose sympathy when people screamed at them to not shoot themselves in the foot and they still did it anyways.
Farmers voted for this without thinking ahead for a minute, now they reap what they sowed.
@@panzerschiff9805 I can't 2nd this enough.
I didn't originally realise farmers were on the brexit bandwagon. It's amazing how most of the people voting for it were the people that were obviously going to suffer the most (eg a lot of poorer areas of the country that benefitted from EU grants and EU rules that protected workers and reduced superrich tax evasion, etc). Now i realise i've lost a huge amount of respect for them. I know that's a sweeping generalisation as i'm sure there were rare exceptions to the rule where some farmers voted against, and those i feel especially sorry for. But i don't feel sorry for anyone who voted brexit then suffers because of it. Like you say you reap what you sow.
Anyone with half a brain was doing everything they could to explain it to the brexiteers but they were just so emotionally invested that they wouldn't listen to reason. Just thought it was a fun game, dismissing counter-arguments with catchy slogans like "project fear" (which of course eventually became project reality). Even now many are deluded enough to complain about it's the way brexit was done and other similar scapegoats, as if any other politician would've magic'ed some other miracle solution even though the UK didn't have any chips to bargain with.
It's difficult to feel sorry for people like that. Especially because we're all suffering from it in some way.
Two months ago was when i finally decided to sit and watch Our Man in Japan James May and it lead me to Clarkson's farm. And in his goofy apolitical way, he really managed to show the depths farmers in the UK has to go to make a few thousand in profit and it made me, a foreigner appreciate them on a level i could never before.
The government: We will take away your subsidies, forcing you to diversify.
The council: Don't you dare deviating from the status quo!
This show has done more for environmentalism than Just Stop Oil ever will, no fear mongering no virtue signalling, just the problems and solutions explained without condescension or accusation.
Its great for getting the every man on bored with the idea, without frustrating him in to opposition, the way blocking traffic would.
The fact that Jeremy Clarkson and Amazon are the people behind it is pretty stunning to me.
Well, except for calling the government stupid, but no one with a rational brain is going to argue against that point.
@@lolbuster01 Yeah, the conservatives need some time out of office for sure.
when people or governments act stupid, call them out on it. thats how they learn and change. dont accept stupid behavior, because you like the persons that do it
@@aldraone-mu5yg just the conservatives? Labout abandoned farmers for office workers back in the 90s. They dont represent the LABOURERS anymore. That includes farmers and farmhands. Labour can fek off, too.
Yeah, vote you're way out of the problem. Lmao. Yeah I'm sure one farm is stopping climate change. This is why i don't engage with right wing bs, it's ridiculous. You do realise it was the fossil fuel companies that pushed the carbon footprint bs, that in turn pushed the blame onto the general public for the problems created by big business and its government puppets?.. but yeah of course, a few yahoos in their loungeroom watching a millionaire run a farm, that'll really combat climate change and the waste created by living consumer lifestyles!!. I hope you people like rishi, cause you better get used to people like him running you're beloved countries.
I have been adicted to the Clarkston Farm show since it started. Farming is backbreaking physical work and near impossible to get vacation time. It is dirty, often smelly jobs that the average person would not do. The bureaucrats who make the rules grow a rosebush in their yard and think this makes them an authority on horticulture. No one should be allowed in any agriculture government job in the UK or US unless they actually own a working farm. The average authoritarian would not dare to go into a restaurant and tell the chef how to cook but think they can dictate to the people who put the food on their table. We all need to support the farmers of the world and thank them for doing what most of us would not do to feed ourselves.
Let's be honest here, your average oligarch would barge right through those kitchen doors and start dictating to the chef how to cook.
@@Syphaxis Great response. We seem to have no shortage of less than brilliant oligarchs in minor political positions.
They don’t make rules because they know how to garden. They make rules because farming is just another job and industry. It has a huge geographic and cultural divide but at the end of the day farming is a JOB. They affect the economy and the economy affects them. They hurt and help people through their job, they play a role in negotiations, lobbying, and political movements. The fact they literally grow the food we need to survive doesn’t change the fact that with no money we can’t buy any food.
You would be surprised by how many people tell chefs to cook. "Can I get a side of fries instead of rice?" Please ask for all kinds of bizarre changes to menu items. People going to steak restaurants asking for a vegan options are the worst. Can you imagine going to a vegan restaurant and demanding they make you a steak?
@@daviddonahoe1303 Yes.
This show absolutely blew me away. I was enthralled from the start to the finish of each episode. I learned so much about farming and gained sympathy for them, for things I never even knew were challenges they faced.
It’s also further strengthened my disdain for local councils and their micromanagement over minutia, and my disdain for bureaucracy in general.
I always had a respect for farmers before watching Clarkson’s Farm, after watching it I now have an immense amount of respect and gratitude for them. The amount of bulls got they have to deal with JUST to grow crops and raise livestock is ridiculous. Add in British Bureaucracy and the fact that England has any farms at all is mind boggling.
Proper geezer who understands life imo.
Really then why did he vote for brexit? You do know that most of what they are running into is because of that. The council was a annoyance but anyone with a brain would know they were just being petty blue hairs, that was not the real issues they are having. Weather yep that is a problem always has been. It is the pricing that does is not gotten into. Oh well most farmers there have realized that they were sold a can of nothing.
Jezza the geeza 😂😂
Yet can't follow basics like "I agreed to only sell items made within 36 miles in this shop" or "food products have standards" or "planing ahead and getting permission BEFORE I act will make people less mad at me"
@@Ceser1999 Oh he did those and I have always felt he was an ass, really didn't watch Top Gear that much due to him. Yet that council in the end was straight up being asses. And the items, that gold digger that got her hooks in him is more to blame there, it is "her" shop.... what did that person do before this?
The way I heard Councils described years ago was “Dustmen in the day, Directors at night. And that still stands today. Mostly nosey busy bodies with nothing going on in their lives, who love to interfere in other people’s lives.
No one becomes a councillor in this country because they want to help people. They become councillors because they want to shape the country in their image, and everyone else are little children that can't be trusted with anything more dangerous than plastic spoons.
@muppit666. Not to mention those councellors who are on the take .
The Cotswolds are the most notorious boomer pensioneer hideouts in all of the UK. Him blowing up his house started the whole vendetta. They're thankfully being outed on international streaming ❤
The government is not your friend.
So basically an HOA
I'm Canadian and watch this show on Prime Canada. I have to say I didn't realize just how difficult it is to farm. I'm sure the same is happening here in Canada. I love this show, the humor, the sadness as well as the difficulties with the local authorities that all farmers have to deal with.
What i like about the show is that. Jeremy could have easily turned it into making a documentary and be on with it. But he stayed there, lived like one and shown what everyday farmers had to go through made me like him more
Raised on a ranch in Canada and the show did a great job of showing the real parts of farming/ranching life. We got some top gear style gags as well, which is fun with Clarkson really knowing how to put on a good show, and it really appears he was trying his best especially with his animals.
Jeremy Clarkson knows how to make interesting TV, period. His highlighting of the problems of UK farmers face is public service.
From an American, he really makes it clear that it is backbreaking work that will grind down most people, and it really raises questions about what could happen if there’s a food shortage when the governments sets up farmers to fail
My GF only knew of him from watching bits of Top Gear but after the first season she was really impressed with how interesting he made the show, and entertaining. The man knows how to make some great TV, even if he is a bit of a knob at times. And I liked he was all in to keep things going with his crops and animals, as a kid who grew up on a ranch I don't think he was faking that. Glad he got more people to realize just how hard farming can be and how easy it would be to see most go bankrupt.
Jeremy deserves an OBE for services to agriculture for those shows and what they have done to raise both the profile of farming and the issues they face.
nah
CBE
Arise Sir Jeremy Clarkson!
Lets not get carried away.
I think even Jeremy would advise against that. He’s stated multiple times he shouldn’t be put on a pedestal for farming. Caleb should be instead.
I really hope season 4 has more round table conversations with other farmers listening to their issues with the government and councils. Makes bloody good TV when the hypocrisy of government and environmental groups are highlighted.
"the government is paying farmers to grow wild flowers, not wheat, then they import wheat from Brazil where they have to clear rainforest to make space"
This is precisely the issue with farming in most of Europe, Governments impose taxes and regulations that make it _very difficult_ for farmers to survive without subsidies then use those subsidies to undermine profitable farming operations to benefit bulk-goods importers from third world countries that use international grants and loans to subsidize agricultural food-production - those loans are then payed out with interest to banks in Europe who use the same interest to invest in asset management/holdings firms where legislators have large stakes, it's usually these same firms that _own_ the import/export companies too.
The environmental impact of this cycle, from clearcutting/burning to emissions, regulations evasion and emissions from transit and logistics are then used to justify "green" initiatives in Europe like planting flowers, environmental regulations etc. to "greenwash" and obfuscate the problems at play. The same "greenwashing" is also used to curry favor with young voters and extend harmful environmental laws to undermine other sectors of society and, at the end, your own wallet - all to the tremendous profit of legislators and their financiers.
What's more, politically, it's a lot easier for the government to deal with one or two large corporations than it is for them to deal with tens of thousands of farmers when it comes to making decisions, especially ones that would look terrible if publicized or written into actual law so they prefer that option in general.
That's to mention nothing of the damage this entire process does to the local circumstances in those third world exporters where people have to _live_ with that environmental impact and corruption in a much more direct way. Socio-economic conditions which are frequently used as an excuse for why legions of young people need to be imported into Europe to simultaneously undermine both European labour _and_ the prospects of any of these other countries actually ever getting better.
We are black family with farming history, I am not a farmer because I choose engineering. However, my father and brothers are farmers. Unfortunately they had to sell piece of their farm due to bills pilling up few months ago. The bills, are costs of the farm. The fertilizers have almost doubled in priced past few years, the taxes have gone up considerably. Their buyers are paying less because they too are in the slums.
Son of a greek farmer here, i also left my dad's farm without EU support and goverment subsities it would be imposible to compete in such a market. Sure one less farmer, but thats common in this country and the prices only go up. We only made profit from wheat only after the war in Ukraine after that the prices plummeted but the price of bread from 0.70 a kilo went to 1.0 euros per kilo. I dont know mate seems rather bleak this situation...
Son of an English farmer here. We sold in 2009 for a cut-down price and now the new owner (not a farmer) is using their finances and relationship with the local councils to build houses and make millions.
@@arthur9924 Always the same story... My hometown used to be a prosperous farming community in the 1980s. Nowadays, they fill the fields and the marshes along the river to build stupid houses that will be flooded because it's a flood plain. Meanwhile, the same city councils can't stop blaring about me having take important actions to save the planet... but hey, destroying acres of farmlands, marshes and sources of food isn't important. BTW, my brother is a farmer too who purchased the neighbor's farm more than two decades ago. His business was doing fine, but now he has downsized his activities. He knows that it's just a matter of time before his land will be placated by residential taxes due to urban encroachment and he will have to sell.
Let us not forget there is global war on famers for the environmental agenda. The Netherlands is closing down farms to meet climate goals, France, New Zealand etc. have tightened regulations for similar reasons, same in the US state of California. Oregon water usage regulations are hurting the small farmers.
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It's sad that massive corporations are buying up so much land and pushing out the small farmer.
He should make it into a water slide park. Chipping Norton needs a water slide park.
Absolutely
There’s a lido , funnily enough Jezzer once drove a car in it
the tw4ts in the council will still be against it 🤣
An airport too?
@@perlamiseriaccia Not if he develops on the other side of the road (the fields that aren't designated culturally protected sites).
I am utterly astounded at the level of BS and bureaucracy in the UK. The fact farmers have to register every animal on their farms is beyond madness. Or from season one, having to tell the gov what crops they plan on growing in each field. Jog on.
Jo. The animal identification thing came about because of a disease that devastated livestock in this country about 22 years ago. But you are right, the amour of regulation etc is bonkers.
Not just the UK. This shit happens everywhere.
registering stock is for tracking diseases and stock thieft, but everything else is tax collecting bullshit!
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Even in the third world?
@@Moses_VII Especially in the third world. Each chicken needs a photo ID
My uncles (mother's side, 1 of 15) have a farm in upstate New York. From what I heard they didn't has so much trouble with the town council with their fruit farm, but they did have plenty of trouble with a historical society when they tried to put up a cell tower and rent the space out to cell providers. It took years for that whole kerfuffle to get settled.
I am not sure Jeremy is very impressed with the BBC programme "Country File" and the way it treats farming. I would never watch Country File, but Clarkson's Farm is very enjoyable.
I've heard farmers describe Country File as "a program about farming made by people who live in cities".
They hate it.
It's all very surface level and idealistic. It doesn't really show the reality of farming and is more interested in showing off cute baby animals, pretty shots of nature, and talking about how lovely someones home-made jam is. The whole show is basically just one big fluff piece.
@@BadgerOff32 i totally agree "Country File" has zero credibility. Clearly the BBC knows this but does not care.
@@BadgerOff32spot on!
@@BadgerOff32 A bit like Bargain Hunt never once mentioning auctioneer's fees...
Countryfile like so much of the BBC's output is just another showcase for the political mindset embedded in the BBC now.
He's creating awareness to an important topic through entertainment. Sure, he's not the most efficient or effective farmer by a country mile, but he sheds light on aspects of farming that are difficult for real farmers who depend on it for a living, and that is very valuable. He's using his platform for good!
When Season 1 came out, I was honestly so surprised how good the show was and how awe inspiring the ending was
What makes Clarkson’s Farm such a good and educational show is that it really brings to life just how physically, mentally and emotionally taxing the experience of being a farmer actually is.
Other farming shows can talk to death about the bad weather, lack of government subsidies and the cost of seeds and fertiliser. But in Clarkson’s farm, we get to see the moment Jeremy dies inside when he learns an entire crop has failed and thousands of pounds have just gone down the drain. We get to see him sitting at a computer trying to fill in one of the many, many forms he has to do just to sell a new product or register some new animals. We get to see him and all his neighbours tear their hair out because the power-tripping NIMBYs at the local council keep getting in the way of genuine attempts at diversification and job creation. We get to see him and Lisa having an emotional breakdown when they lose yet another piglet. And we get to see how complicated and fiddly the equipment and the process of farming is in practice.
What also helps is that it’s Jeremy Clarkson who’s doing it. For better or worse, there’s a lot of history to him, and his name automatically generates images of buffoonery and generally being a bit of an arse. But he’s also a layman with no background in farming - when he started out, he knew about as much about farming as the rich bankers in the City of London, as many politicians in Parliament and even a few civil servants at DEFRA, and indeed as much as any city folk with no countryside experience. So to non-farmers, it was easier to imagine what it would be like for us to be in his shoes.
I love Clarkson's Farm and I hope more people hear about it
He has transformed the industry's perception for the better. Growing up, I thought farming was whatever you see on Countryfile. Then you realise, there's even an agenda behind that. Yes, he had the money to start and buy the best kit in the first place but he still does ultimately portray a great insight into the industry.
As someone from Britain I can confirm that nobody holds Britain back more than Britons
Holding back... from the other side of the pond, it seems like Britons are scuttling Britain and it's not something fun to see.
@@sailormatlac9114they'd rather import our enemies
Why would they hold Britain back?
I've been editing on Premiere pro for a while now and watching your vids makes me realise just how much work you put in them. Honestly you're so underrated and I love how you edit. Keep up the great work
Legend appreciate it mate!
I learned more about farming and farming issues from 3 series of Clarkson's Farm than 30 years of Country File!
This local council is demonstrative of all councils
We’re really enjoying the show. It’s very entertaining and educational. I have so much respect for farmers and what they go through in all aspects of farming and dealing with the town and residents. The show keeps it very real.
Thanks soo much for making a video on Clarkson’s farm showing even more people the life’s of farmers im a young farmer and im worried for my future and my family farm thank you for showing an interest into this topic
I've watched what will happen if farmers are pushed out of their farms, where I live was orchards, the first thing the regional government did was to pay growers to rip out the trees and plant grapes for wine, they have since been adding regulation after regulation making it more difficult and expensive to continue, if the owner is forced to declare bankruptcy or gets foreclosed on, within months local government changes zoning and the land is now being used for high value housing.
So we lose local fruit, jobs, taxes and the rich get a big lot in what was agricultural land, but at least we gained nothing.
I'm absolutely certain that no one in the local government, and certainly no one related to anyone in local government, has real-estate or builder interests that benefit from large tracts of buildable land suddenly coming onto the market at firesale prices.
@@MrKoobuh Oh, so you think it's difficult for the person (company) that has an interest in real estate to drop something interesting to the mailbox of the local government? People acting like corruption is rare
Sounds an awful lot like where I live.
That's the story of my hometown... a once prosperous farming community that is destroyed, day by day, to make room for idiotic urban planning in the middle of a known flood plain.
Sure he could sell up and piss off into the sunset but i don't he ever would. He's developed a great relationship with too many people and not so many with the usual a'holes that have done their best to block him at every turn. Caleb you can tell deep down thinks the best of him and | think that relationship is unbreakable now.
Even when he eventually stops Caleb will get his own show. A seed has been planted, we could say.
@@CanalTremocos i think caleb said he doesnt exactly want his own show lol but i would double check that
@@CanalTremocos Douchey
one of the reason I think people love this show (including me) is the fact jeremy is not a farmer, he don't know anything about it, so as he learn on how to do it, we the audience learn it too and as he struggle and facing difficulty, we also saw it first hand what kind of problem that may arise
As a farmer myself, all subsidies should be gotten rid of. Subsidies encourage poor management and lower profit margins.
Just look to New Zealand as an example of what can be done when you eliminate subsidies. They radically changed their farming practices and became a world leader in pasture raised/grass fed animals.
Subsidizing wheat/corn/etc causes us to do stupid things like feeding a ruminant grain…
Not a vote winner unfortunately.
@@fiddleyWhich is why subsidies/entitlements usually end when it becomes so unsustainable that they just collapse under the weight of themselves. Government is terrible at being proactive and spending never diminishes until it’s forced to via collapse of the currency or something other catastrophe.
"became a world leader in pasture raised/grass fed animals" so luxury produce. Let's just convert all farm to luxury produce, what could go wrong! Oh what's that? Nobody can afford it? It's oversupplied so the price went down? Can't feed the cattle because it can no longer eat the subsidized grains? Great fucking idea.
interesting, but aren't farmers in need of subsidies because they are poor?
@@Moses_VII No. subsidies are there to provide insurance against acts of God (damaging weather/drought/flooding/etc). There are also price controls that try and smooth our locations from things like bumper crops plummeting the cost of a crop, or prices skyrocketing due to drought.
The problem with insurance/price controls is it encourages farmers to mono-crop and focus on 1/2 crops. This is damaging ecologically, as well as economically. If there were no safety nets, farmers would have to spread their risk over a wider variety of crops/animals which would be better ecologically and economically for the farmer.
Subsidies actually trap farmers in poverty. Which is why all the leading farmers in regenerative agriculture farm multiple crops/animals and don’t rely on government programs to be profitable.
Love him or hate him, he's done more to show the struggles of farmers to the wider public than anyone!. Bloody local council and government Noddies!. Tall Poppy syndrome!, yes he's got the 'dosh' to do it, but! He cares!. Nuff said.
Every episode of Clarkson's Farm is another reason to support UK farmers next time you go to the supermarket!
Hate councils. Like children no value for money or what it takes to earn it. In their eyes doesn’t matter how much they waste there’s always more. Anti business anti people. Longs they are ok they don’t care
And we voted for them
vote better next time bud
Unfortunately doesn’t matter who we vote for most councillors own self interests and agendas are not for our benefit. Those who genuinely want to make change and do better get beat down by bureaucracy and stupid bylaws. I’m from Thurrock(verge of bankruptcy) which is and always been either corrupt or inept. All the people with the skills to make this country better work in private sector. Who can blame them.
The government is not your friend.
@@Scarduck14does that mean the answer is to pay council staff more to make it more appealing than the private sector?
Remember, you don’t hate your local council enough.
Love that show. Did a great job at informing us what farming is really like.
Very very good video. I really think you've done a good job explaining what awareness Jeremy has created. We'll done!!
Theres a massive difference between tennant farmers and land owners.
wdym?
as per all the people who have visited his farm and the farm shop. (more than 20k people have visited the farm shop) most videos say its only Jeremy and Kaleb farming with 1-2 camera guys walking and following behind, so Jeremy would be a Land owner and also a farmer.
@@stesso9biggest difference is land ownership obviously.
Tenants won't think of land taxes like land owner farmers do. However, they could get squeezed thin by the rent costs the owner charged.
@@A7XFan800there is no comparison between paying taxes and rent at least in my country greece. difference is x20 in favour of taxes. Moreover big ag is not sustainable cause of extremely low margins and huge depreciation costs. Getting bigger isn't the solutionb at least usually in agriculture.
No matter what you think of his farming style, he brings massive awareness to the struggles farmers have to deal with
his farming style is "fake it 'til you make it" 😆😆
Ok, it took me a while to realize this video wasn't Sunny. As someone who loves his channel, this is a heartfelt compliment, and basically just because the editing is similarly excellent and your voice is quite similar.
Thanks for a great video mate. You truely deserve many more followers than you currently have.
I'm Brazillian, have no farm and I still watch it. It's one of the best shows available nowadays, I really really enjoy clarksons famr
It’s the top gear effect Jeremy and crew has help spread light on a Load of issues around the world when they did their travels
After watching this show, my respect for farmers has grown immensely. Honestly I don’t even understand why anybody would do this, except for the kindness of their heart and because they know how necessary it is.
The cost of entry are incredibly high, the labor is unbelievably hard, the working hours would have any HR department chain you to your bed and then you still barely make any money.
The thing is, this is Jeremy Clarkson. He has an huge following and very deep pockets. Also he can film anything he does and turn it into the most watched show on the internet in an instant. So he can afford a bad year. He can build a shop and have it completely sold empty half an hour after opening. He can open a restaurant and have it booked for years before even opening. And even if all of that fails to make a profit, he will film it and make a couple million that way.
But guess who can’t do all that and still deals with the same struggles. Correct. Anyone else that does farming. If anybody wanted to get into farming, they would probably need a large loan unless they had a ton of money or the land prior to that. If they have a bad year, they can’t pay the loan this year, if they want to diversify their farming, they need another loan to cover the costs, if they want to open a shop or a restaurant, it would take years and cost a lot of money to even get the message out.
Started watching this the other day and it is extremely entertaining and informative.
Man went from reviewing cars to being a holy figure in the farming community
He´s one of the good guys who practises more than he preaches. I´ve no idea whom to name besides him to be like that.
It sounds like selling in Jeremy's farm shop is the only thing keeping the local lady who supplies the milk afloat as well as several other local producers and the local council almost took that from them.
Yup
Fantastic show!
Being upfront, I've never liked Clarkson as a person/personality figure. However, this show is utterly fantastic (mostly because it's people telling him what to do and then he ignores it and they are proven correct) and he deserves all the credit for it.
I'm a small business owner in a rural area who deals with farmers on occasion and some of their struggles have just been beyond belief. The fact it's making people seem to care more about the countryside is a very big win in my opinion.
Personally I'm still struggling to see how the majority of farmers believed brexit was a good idea, but putting that aside, the way they've been treated by this government has just been horrific. As someone else said, it isn't just farms going through struggles at the moment with the big boys pushing on them, but I'm glad it's been highlighted.
The cider he makes is actually so good would be sad if he sold the farm
I'm a bit of a cider connoisseur myself and was really bummed out to find they won't/can't ship their cider to the US.
@@GeneralChangFromDanangif you really want to try jezza's cider you might want to look into uk parcel forwarders. basically they'll give you a uk address (think PO box) that you can have stuff delivered to, then they repack it and ship it to you internationally for a fee. there are plenty of companies that'll do this, although i've never used any myself, so i'm afraid i can't give you a recommendation.
Great video!
Please keep going. You are highlighting how hard our Farmers work for all of us.xx
Caleb went from never having read a book to making 3 of them
Well, now we know that he has read at least three books now. Probably😂
@@_Dwarkin Caleb: “I don’t read my own books!”
Clarkson: “you don’t read your own books.”
Caleb: “I like the cover.”
Governments hate farming and farmers but without them, we’d starve.
And that's what the government wants
@@bigblockman11 lol this is a crazy assertion, yes the government doesn't have your best interests in mind - but if people were starving the first people to be targeted would be people in the government.
@Jomchen I said what it "wants" it's obvious they can't have that, so they want us not starved, but "dependent"
@@Jomchenthey are replacing white people with islamists
Governments hate the people. Period.
This video was very educational, thank you.
Time was I knew sweet fuck all about farming. After watching Clarksons Farm I know believe wholeheartedly that farmers are the undisputed MVP’s of society
The gall of politicians and people to virtue signal farmers who provide the nation's food for "destroying the environment" while they themselves push for a "better looking" environment at the cost of local food production and not actually contributing anything helpful is downright despicable
There is a tug of war honestly.
On the one hand Rewilding would be good for unfucking England's ecosystem, on the other hand the only reason the government is picking on farmers to help lower carbon emissions is because they have far less political power than the other big polluters.
I'd rather not see farmers lose everything to offset the environmental targets for billionaire tycoons honestly.
??? this comment makes zero sense. what are you trying to say?
@@latlatko Do you want food or the environment? Pick one.
@@UnnamedThinkTank human industrial farming capacity is already more than enough to sustain the lives of all humans currently alive and populations are declining.
Human hunger isn't an issue of supply, its a logistical issue. If food was transported more efficiently we wouldn't need as many farms.
@@UnnamedThinkTank well, given that you can't grow food in a shit environment probably the environment. it would do well to remember that we are living in the environment as well.
Clarkson give something to the farmers worldwide that no politician ever gave, respect
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I am from Mexico and I freakin love this show. It had become one of my favourite and now I am watching other shows from Jeremy. It's just amazing the worl he does.
Thank you for this
1965 Green Acres, 2021 Clarkson's Farm.
I love Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May! I have yet to watch season 3 of Clarkson's Fram yet lol.
It's just as good as the first two. Episode 4 is very sad though.
@@freddieb1903 i found it really sad too, especially after the funny shit in E3
@@freddieb1903Season 4 is like a horror show.
@@burgerfcSeason 3 released this month, didn't it? How is it season 4?
@@danielchettiar5670 They're from the future probably.
I just binged the entire show so far. It had been sitting on my watch list for a while. I do think one small issue with the show is that each season sort of feels a bit like he is restarting the farm. He talked about how bad of an investment the sheep were for instance. Which relative to some of the other stuff he got, yeah. But after the first year, he doesn't need to buy the initial sheep anymore. and as the flock grows, so does the income from it. Now there is of course rising costs there too, more food and medical care needed. But it's much harder to start out then to already be in. Which I think is what the show, displays very well.
The upfront investments are staggering. As this video shows, a lot of farmers like people in the trades are getting older. Not only is their going to be a shortage of labor in these types of jobs. But the tools needed to do them will probably disappear and new people looking to dip their toes in, likely will not have the capital to invest in it.
Jeremy Clarkson show that in UK, the biggest enemy of farmer is not the weather but the local council.
I never thought I'd like Clarkson's Farm until I watched a youtuber called Junkyard Digs.
That dude normally does car stuff but has two plots of land and revives once retired equipment to run and plant again. After enjoying essentally the budget version, i watched Clarkson and enjoyed it immensely.
Great show, and becoming more and more important, great way of highlighting the troubles farmers have stuffed down their throats by paperpushers.
I was very surprised by the TV show, and Clarkson really did a huge service to us all, showing us how difficult it is to live on farming...
As somrone who grew up on a dairy farm in Maine, U.S.A. I watch and support many youtube farmers as I can. Farming is the hardest most thankless job in the world.
Sunak met Caleb for a photo op and probably advised him to go into the City, as he did the homeless man.
I was not expecting to see my uncle in this video at 8:14 😂
LEGEND! 😆