@@qasimahmed3301 I'm not from the UK either but I agree with this man not only British farming but shines a light on farmers globally as hard working and under appreciated
The question is not "what are farmers going to do?" the question is "what are farmers doing at the moment?" 144pounds profit is no incentive at all to do thing the right way. Quality is probably at the all time lowest already and much worse to come.
subsidy isn't nearly as important as opening trade and letting farmers find resources without government meddling in the economy, of which drives up their costs. Subsidy is nothing more than marxism lite.
As a farmer, this part of the series was so important for the world to see. Most of us aren't doing this because we are getting rich, we are doing it because we love what we do.
I hear you - I lived with a farmer mate of mine for a year in my early 20s, going through the finances in the farm office was pretty sobering stuff. That poor guy inherited the farm at 17 years old along with 400,000 pounds in debt. I am please to say however that he's turned it around in the 20 years since then but god he had to grow up quickly. Sadly, he did so not so much by farming, but through other business ventures - converting and renting out cottages, building a couple of houses on his land and selling those, renting our barns to historic vehicle groups, renting his fields out for arable. He still rears sheep, makes cider and breeds pigs, but that is more out of the love of it than anything else.
Not only does Jeremy look happier but even just down to his health. Even just by loosing weight he looks fitter, stronger even let alone his mental well-being
Lose*. I hate when people write loose. Did you know loose is a different word with a different meaning? Sort your life out please mate. Think about it before you type it.
@@finland2306 No, I have had it with you lot! It's a different word altogether. It's like calling you a fuckwit instead of a good bloke. Different meanings.
This really made me tear up. My Grandfather has been farming since a boy he's in his 80s now and still going in Daventry. I never really knew the struggles. He even said Jeremy Clarkson has done more for farming with this series than farming weekly ever has. Well done guys.
Imagine if Jeremy ran as an independent for the House of Commons & during Question Time, he got stuck-into all those "Trouser Leg Rolled Up & Drive a Lexus Lodge" politicians who have been making all these anti-farming laws for decades?
@@mrbillhilly343 God, if someone told me 5 years ago that I would genuinely think that Clarkson of all people would make a positive impact in the House of Commons I would have called you mad
I don't know, what's changed. Like 2 years from now what can we say is different because of this show. A few more people have an appreciation of how farmers are milked?
I love how JC can be the clown who makes other farmers think he's taking the mickey, only for him to turn it all around with a serious homage to the struggles farmers face and generate more sympathy and understanding for them than anyone else has been able to do. That's genuinely JC at his best (both as clown and as herald)
Jeremy did far more for British farmers with 1 series of his Amazon series than every sitting MP regardless of their flavour has done for them over the last 50 years by far
@@neurocidesakiwi Although the video literally answered this question within the first minute, showing your inability to absorb even the most basic information, a large number of first world countries hand out subsidies to farmers as a way to ensure they remain at least somewhat profitable. These subsidies are driven entirely by government policy in almost all instances, so the meal you eat tonight is likely, partly, paid for by a politician's decision making to do "something for the farmer." Hopefully this response has helped you understand, even at a very rudimentary level, how a politician may have done something for the farmer at some point.
@@TobyW360 Nope, stuck paying 35% income tax like most of us unfortunately. I hate gov and politicians as much as the next person does, but as someone in Ag myself, it's facetious to say there's nothing done to help us, we need the help because giant corps have pretty much bled our profits dry (in Aus at least)
Really? Wanna swap out you government subsidies for Jeremy Clarksons kind words? Didn't think so. Don't get me wrong, I'm definitely on the farmers side and 100% support those subsidies, but ungratefulness is never pretty.
When Jeremy said “next time a farmer complains about the weather, put your ARM round him and buy him a pint” that’s the single most thing he said during this entire series that really puts a lump in your throat for these farmers and how bad they get screwed every which way from Sunday .
Famers are the Biggest Gamblers in the World. Most of the time, it's " All in" for them. Until my Parents broke the chain, the family on both sides were farmers for 5 generations, but my parents ensured we knew how to farm and take care of animals. Some of the hardest work I have ever done but also some of the most rewarding.
@@cooper512 I have a couple mates who run farms and certainly for them it's actually been a decent year so far. However that is largely due to their seeds, pesticides etc having been bought at the old prices (which are now way higher) but then being able to sell the end product at the higher rates. It's the year after that they're dreading as their prices are insanity for the supplies now and there's no guarantee that they'll be getting the higher prices for end product after harvest.
After seeing this series, I realised this has become a worldwide thing.. Us, farmers of Nepal, struggle the same for all the work done for the year... It's horrifying what humanity has in the future
even dutch agriculture... 2nd food exporter in the world despite being the most populated european country while being a postal sized stamp of a country, the govourment does everything to destroy it. its litterally batshit insane
its so sad when farming is quite literally the backbone of every community. WIthout farms there would literally be no food (well no food on the shelvs) and we would have to farm our own food (and even then alot of houses in urban ears barely have a garden in the UK!). Farmers deserve so much more!
@@jimmys1558 the worst thing about it ,is that they are sending billions of € to a country nobody fucking cares. They are waiting on that country to give back ressources in the future but probably will not do anything to pay back what they have taken from us. Farmers should've been paid correctly instead of giving out money to waste, no farmers = no food, no food = we dead.
@@jimmys1558 "most populated european country" What? If you don't count Russia and Turkey then Germany is the most populated european country, not the Netherlands. I assume you mean most densely populated european country? Because if so then yes!... If you ignore The Vatican, San Marino, Malta and Monaco
I felt that when Jeremy said “Next time a farmer moans about the weather, put your arm round him and buy him a pint”. You know shit’s real when he’s serious
This. That's what makes it for me, it felt authentic. So many people blindly praise the Grand Tour but it never really felt like those early Top Gear days. It was too over the top, too reliant on spectacle and faked shenanigans. Clarkson's farm showed us something genuine with Jeremy learning how to manage his farm for real. Looking forward to series 2.
I'm a vet student, and the thing I've come to appreciate the most is that one bad harvest, one bad batch of feed, one incidence of disease, and an entire farming enterprise can be devestated. The amount of record keeping, research and management that goes into farming is incredible and I think Clarkson is doing a fantastic job showing just some of the many difficulties faced by our farmers around the world.
That’s why there is the subsidy for bad years. Not for topping up there profit every year, it’s for when it goes wrong. Farming is hardwork, who said it was an easy life, that’s why they’re celebrated. However the farmers I know are quite happy to pass the hard work onto someone else for shit salaries based on performance, and they’re using the subsidies to go on 6 holidays a year and buy the latest Range Rover.
If I can give you one word of advice, my friend, unless you are independently wealthy and able to pay your tuition in cash and have no need of working to make a living after you graduate, get out of the vet program. There are approximately 8 full on, board certified vets in the US for every one vet job/clinic that produces a bare living wage but all those degree holders are still stuck paying back their monstrous student loans, even though most never work in the field or make any money from their degree. The universities realized there were a bunch of girls who love animals and could be convinced a vet degree would allow them to have a career as an animal savior and the girls just ate it the fuck up and flocked into and flooded the vet programs. Now there are a zillion vets and none of them are working but more girls are still drinking the cool-aide and still signing up for student loans that will mean they likely will have to chose between buying a modest house and having kids, they won't be able to afford to have both, even with a high earning husband. Men are discovering, by the way, that girls with excessive student loans are the kiss of death, just like single mothers are. So give your future the best chance it can have, do anything but continue on in the vet program. Even a Mcdonalds employee with a little financial savvy will end up with a better financial outcome than almost all vet degree holders.
@@squarepinapples9116Yep. Most of the owners are filthy rich and suffer from a serious case of "survivor bias". They get lucky with their first couple crops and all of a sudden they act like they took a million risks and worked 20 hour shifts their whole lives to get there, it's just the funniest thing. I only feel bad for the other ones, the ones that actually work.
@@squarepinapples9116 subsidies are the wrong tool for the job, there are plenty of other tools to de-risk agriculture, future markets are extremely good at price discovery so you don't over produce driving profit to 0, setting up insurance scheme like the rest of the private market has for disaster relief, it's far better than incentivizing inefficient land usage.
As a farmer this scene was absolutely gold. Kinda brought a tear to the corner of the eye. Every turn is made more difficult by a bored pencil pusher that never held a still born calf with a broken heart yet the passion pulls us along almost by instinct. Grind on fellows .
"never held a still born calf with a broken heart" - yet you'd happily see them milked until they are exhausted, and/or sent to an early grave for a bit of cash in your pocket. OK.
As a a farmer in the US (Virginia) I can say so much of this rings true in the US as well. This is the best show on farming I’ve ever watched. I’m also a huge fan of the 3 boys and anything they do.
@@michaelbitzer6827 The elite want us to hate consumerism that's sustained us for over 150 years. Who allowed all the illegal immigration, outsourcing and monopolization of corporations? WW2 veterans, Silents, and Boomers! May they all burn in hell for their apathy.
@@michaelbitzer6827 Amen to that. Interesting choice of words, “braying”. Last time I heard that said of a noisy jack ass was several years ago from my grandfather. Luckily he is still alive at 96. Clean farm living served him well. God bless brother.
@@andyh0010 He wants to return farming to a more sustainable program and doing that as well as wildlife management is best done on large tracts of land
@@andyh0010 If he squashes the competition, Petro Chemical based mega farms own by multinational corporations and Hedge Funds then the world will have turned for the better I think. Less than 10% of all farms in America are owned and managed by Families and local Co ops. For farmers to be able to lease and manage land owned by someone who supports sustainability practices will benefit in cleaner water, better water management and a whole host of other side benefits, without forcing any ideas or practices on anyone. Farmers know what works for the big picture and it seems Gates understands that
buy directly at the farm instead of at stores would be a good start I think, go to the farm for your eggs, potatoes, milk, cheese buy anything from the farm that you could also buy in a store@@manny7662
buy local! @@manny7662 I can't stress this enough but my family runs a family farm as an additional income and what keeps us going is that we can sell our produce on our doorstep beef, cheese, home made alcohol, potatoes .... stuff like that! we have regular costumers, people who buy from us because they are sure that what they get is GOOD sop if you can. buy local and directly from farmers!
It's a wake up call for the British to start supporting their farmers. If you can't grow your own food and have to rely on imports, one day you will be shocked. It's actually a serious security issue. Keep the farm Jeremy and bring on next season.
@@JayDee-b5u If you control someone's food supply you can much more easily control their actions. Thus a secure food supply is essential for the security of a free nation. Beyond that if a nation has its food supply cut or restricted then there will come a point where that nation's people will overthrow their leadership in order to restore the food supply.
It's part of the bigger plan. Farms need to be shut down so that people starve and die. The Great Reset to save the planet and re-introduce wild bore and award Greta a Damehood.
@@JayDee-b5u "Security is Security, Food is Food" is a Ministry of Truth line. Seeing food as a potential nation security issue is a historically proven fact especially in the UK's case as we have seen not once but twice in modern history where the cut off in imports via U-Boats threatened the food supply of the nation let alone all other goods. Now is it the largest security issue? No it's not for many nations but that doesn't mean it isn't something that can be ignored.
after i saw the first season i converted a third of my garden into farmland. I grew pumpkins this year, 50 seeds for £2.50. I've been selling them all last week for a quid each. I only have 6 left. I also have grown 50 all year round lettuce heads, again £2.50 for 50 seeds. Those sold out the second the heatwave hit. Had them in cold storage, took leaves off, put them in XL sandwich bags. Same weight as Tesco and Asda, but at 50% less price. The money has gone into getting the tree cut down and the leaves are being turned into natural compost for next years crops. Still have about £20 left over. I also have a chili pepper plant, a cherry tomato plant and a dozen shallots to be planted in the new year. Im hoping that word of mouth in the area spreads so next year, i sell out again on everything. Its more for the community and my own health, than the money to be fair. Gives me an excuse to go outside for a hour or two a day. And its all thanks to Clarksons Farm.
I live in a farming community in eastern Pennsylvania, and my friend who's a dairy farmer told me years ago, "If anyone made as little as I do, they'ld quit, and no one would have milk". And he wasn't kidding!
the struggle in farming is universal sadl, even in my home country of india if you worked hard 365 days a year for 50 years straight you still couldn't afford to buy the land that your farm would be situated on, let alone the equipment and expenses.
Why do farms make so little? Genuine question. I've never thought they didnt make money i always thought the opposite in fact. That it was pretty lucrative
To be fair, dairy is one of those markets that is artificially made in the US. Before WW2 and prohibition, it didn’t even exist. And then it was artificially floated by the government buying milk all the way up until reagan. The got milk campaign was literally a government psyop to float the diary market. The fat electrician has a good video on it
I think as well as the current battle that is being fought there needs to be more innovation to monetise farming, and for farmers to sell produce more directly
I love Jeremy for being so real. He doesn't filter his opinions. He doesn't get a ton of plastic surgery to look like a melted doll. He accepts what he is, which is an aging British man, and doesn't try to pose for anyone. Seems pretty rare in the film industry today. That's probably why his opinions are so respected
Regardless if you are a British farmer , life isn't easy for any farmer in the world. I come from a Farming family and mate it was never easy and it never is , all the farmers are just ❤️
I love this side of Jezza. Probably all of us here grew up watching Top Gear and hearing him say he's allergic to manual labor and now look at him. The awareness to farming this show has brought I feel has helped tremendously not only in the UK but here in the US as well. I've heard from several people that they watched it and never knew exactly how it was done or how hard and demanding it was. Can't wait for season 2!!
This actually brought a tear to my eye. This is something his soul has been craving for decades you can tell his reactions are completely genuine he cares so much about the farm and his animals. Top gear was his early life when he was going fast and living side by side with his mates but this is the balance he really needed
Happy to see Jeremy showing genuine support and compassion to farmers after his 1 year of experience. While he wasn't serious all the time, he still learnt the true daily hardships these people face just to feed people and make a living for themselves.
The genuine desire to feed people (in the Western world at least), seems to be the most impossible thing anybody would ever attempt. Having people literally scream murder at you whilst you actually keep them alive day to day must be the strangest thing to ever experience. God Bless you all.
My great grandparents owned a 96 acre farm in west Tennessee when I was a kid. Loved it! In my 20's they sold it off in 1/4 acre lots for houses. When I was 28 I took my wife there once, I'm 42 and haven't been back. No reason now.
yup, and all the construction work. The farm shop, access road to it, parking for it. The new fencing for the sheep, the pond and creek. Not all of it will ever repay itself, but a lot of it will over a few years start bringing in a positive cash flow.
Exactly. That's really amazing. He's into good money as his expenses come down a bit; weather permitting, etc. Also, you can't neglect the fact that he's paid wages to a shepherd, wages to a couple farm hands, and so on. They are as much the farmers needing support as he is. A lot of good got done in that year. Really impressive.
Actually non of the equipment was new, it was all used. Also it's pretty big farm, as per European standards, and Caleb seams to know what he is doing so amount of crops to sell was decent. Im not trying to diminish his achievement, but if it were new machines figures he showed would have to be multiplied by 3 or 4, depending on pice, leading to serious debt.
Actually on the machines the spread the costs. So he bought his tractor for 40k. Let's say they think he will own it for 4 years. They account it has 10k a year
if the gift is misogynistic bigots who love polluting the planet and making shitty remarks about people then sure. what a gift. but if your sole reason for calling him a gift is because hes entertained you in a tv show then that just makes you a fool aswell.
@Charming Chowder Unless you are a producer, in witch case his "lovely personality" is to punch you, because he had a bad day. Or if you are a woman in media, in which case he will write articles about how he fantazises about parading you naked in the street to a choir of people shouting "shame". But y'know. Lovely personality.
Its sad that the UK is not the only country facing these problems , developed countries are losing their farmer and grow more and more dependent on other countries to be able to feed their people. I feel a country that is not able to provide its own basic needs (Food, Water, Electricity) are being irresponsible and are going to be at risk in the future.
Yes, I'm in France and the situation is most likely very similar to the one in the UK, farmers are killing themselves every day because they just cannot survive with how little money they get and how high the bills are There is no way within 10 years we will be able to feed ourselves without other countries Our various government from the left to the right all killed agriculture and now it's slowly but surely dying
Just see what happened with Russia, because they don't provide us with the electricity, and gas anymore, most of Europe is screwed. Everything has gone up price wise except for the salaries... Loads of places are closing up shop because its just too expensive to keep going. I hope this serves as a wakeup call to most places, and they start to get atleast 80% self sufficient, so we don't get these problems again. I live in Denmark, arguably one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and we are just as fucked as everybody else.....
To be fair, it's not like farms are being stopped, they're just not being owned by independent farmers. Now it's all big companies that can absorb losses and run in deficit to kill off the competition.
@@yt.personal.identification In an episode of Top gear, they showed one farm that was half the size of England..... so Yea , I will Believe that, and if you ate the DANGEROUS insects too, you could probably feed half the planet.
Its not red tape killing farming, its leaving the EU and all those juicy subsidies thats killing it, oh, wait, the tories said they'll replace them......I wouldn't hold your breath.
@@bannjaxx And it's not just killing farming, importing and exporting have increased the "red tape" threefold and for a lot of people and most importantly companies in the EU it's not worth the faff. This is going to be much worse than it is even now. The NHS is near collapse or has collapsed already. My friend's dad has some autoimmune disorder, he can barely swallow, losing weight and despite moving heaven and hell he won't be able to see a specialist for at least four months. If he makes it that far... soooo thanks, Boris.
@@bannjaxx Yeah haven't heard the leader of the labours (can't remember his name) say he'll keep the UK farming subsidy. Why can't people just pay the real price of food anyway then we wouldn't need subsidies.
@@annnee6818 As if ferocious supermarket competition for the last 25 years and driving down food prices so the public can buy food at rock bottom prices hadn't pretty much put the writing on the wall already for British family farming. I can't find figures for the percent of UK food that is exported but as we are only 60% self sufficient in food, decreasing exports to high tariff eu countries and consuming it ourselves is an option to help with food security. Indeed there is a drive to do this with trying to sell fish other than cod or haddock to the public instead of selling it to Europe, we just deal with the British public's fussy unexperimental relationship 'thing' it has with food first.
he was quite brave to bring these issues of food production and logistics, weather, equipment , markets, and beaurocracy for farmers, to a larger audience. And as always with wit and humility..
This show has raised awareness of a huge issue we all face - The future of food production. Farmers and old people suffer from the same plight, they are completely unappreciated and disrespected and both have so much to offer.
One year a go at 72, my wife and I “retired” a second time FROM a 50’ sailboat to 70 bare acres in northern Wisconsin. We now have a barn, a tractor, 30 sheep, 12 cows, and dozens of chickens. It is an exhausting life and we love it, but it does not make money. We are living in a 32’ RV inside the barn as the first snows fall, and much of our savings for building a house has been exhausted in inflation and fighting the regulations. You do a great job of telling the story, but never feel alone. There are a lot of us trying….struggling to work this out. It was great to listen to you tell “our story” along with yours.
a lot of those regulations are corporate ones and have nothing to do with health or safety or environmental reasons - its just so the same company that buys (and sells you the needed bs) can squeeze you. If you dare even stand up to let the public know they come knocking on the door with lawyers like the mob would to snuff out a rat. Funny how capitalism ruins everything
How a man such as this can make you both laugh with a smile and make your tear glands constrict with pain is unbelievable. All while delivering a great message. His ability to put the obvious out there (his being on a show) and then deliver a deep message is just credence to how great this man really is. Who would have ever thought “farming?” But here we are and we love it
As big of an impact as Jeremy has had on the motoring world I think this is probably his greatest contribution to humanity. This show has shone a light on what the most important people in the world are up against, without farmers everything else in modern society is irrelevant, for Jeremy to pull the curtain back on the beaurocratic impositions that farmers have to fight against, and how difficult and thankless their job is has been positively eye opening for millions of people. Thank you Jeremy.
I always knew farming was tough, and had a great respect for farmers, but I never knew it was THAT bad. 144 quid for a year's hard graft? Measly. The whole "back british farming" gets tossed around now as just another saying, but its message is strong we DO need to back our farmers, without them, we have nothing. This show perfectly showed the struggles farmers face, and we should all take heed of that warning and buy British. I welcome the 2nd series with open arms.
But he did made a hell lot of mess up.. i think the only thing he did right was wheat.. I have a farming background and although it was very entertaining..he did make quite costly mistakes.. especially buying those sheeps .. trust me goats would have been a lot lot lot better..
Like someone else has said, Clarkson incurred many fixed capital expenses and also had his fair share of accidents. More to the point, though, I don’t get this whole “protect our farms” thing. It’s just as well to buy your wheat, eggs, and whatnot from Brazil, Ukraine, or even the United States (who also “protects” their farmers). If it’s a question of money, then sell the farm and go into engineering, or finance, or whatever. In the richest countries like Britain, US, Japan, etc., what gets these countries where they are is the fact that people leave behind low-value activities such as farming in favor of high value ones like banking and technology. If Britain lost all of its farms, nobody outside the farming community could care less. I’m not from Britain, and so I wasn’t even aware Britain still really has farms, so that makes Clarkson’s achievement appear beyond brilliant in my estimation.
That is only because of his outlay and spending to get the business up. No one makes money in at first for a new business especially when he's bought multiple farming equipment far too big for the farm and built multiple buildings and car parks etc the future. I don't feel sorry for him as just this program would have covered everything financially and now it all profit. Especially his farm shop which year doing really well
Well this has always been the goal of Capitalism. To focus all Wealth into the Hands of very few. The Wealth has to come from somewhere, so any REAL job that generates any REAL wealth like farming, production and craftsmanship gets paid like dirt because of hundreds of laws and social forces that have worked on this for the last 100 Years. So we reach today in which any carrier in something requiring (High) education, that is massively expensive, that literally only exists to manipulate imaginary numbers or bullshit poor people, generates millions for those in the right birth rank and everybody else gets slowly bleed out like a pig in a slaughter house. And once you can't afford to hold to your ancestors Land anymore, they will buy it off you cheaper than can possibly believe, making sure that the REAL wealth (Land, Possessions and influence) will always be held solely by the few born high enough. You can take away the Nobles titles and supposed lawfull power but you can't take away the fact that they are old money. And Old Money doesn't care what you call it, as long as it rules the world. PS: Fun fact not anit-royal (I am german and i find it funny that basically all still existing Royal families in the World are German to some degree^^) nor anti open market economy.(Capitalism and Communism are not actually directly comparable because the first is a mindset and philosophy of action within an Economic system and Communism IS an Economic system, different from the one humans have used since the dawn of civilization, I hate both since the are both crap.)
I was lucky enough to have worked on a farm a few years ago and it's true that there is always something beautiful to witness, whether it's the sparkling of spider webs laced over crops on an early dewy morning or the loving guidance a mother sheep shows towards its little lambs.
I genuinely believe what started as an idea to be light hearted "Clarkson cocking about" show has become so much more - it has shined a light on the trails, tribulations and hardships faced each year by the farming community in the UK as a whole. It has highlighted the extremely high outlays needed to generate relatively low profits, the skill needed to keep the farm actually running, along with unholy commitment required. Well done for making the show and I really hope that a season two is underway !
Jeremy has (had) dedicated his whole life to automotive journalism, and is rightfully so, the most influential motoring journalist alive. Yet this, a simple series about farming is his most influential work. I genuinely believe this is what will be his legacy. Jezza. A living legend.
Im farming in New Zealand and even on my worst of days where everything can go wrong, DOES go wrong, i can sit down after a terrible day and have a good laugh raise the spirits a bit and think "It could always be worse", and think there is nothing else I would rather do, keep positive, keep you head up high, The sun will rise tomorrow and start anew and enjoy this small bit of chaos we call life :) can't wait for season 2 go for it Clarkson!
Please please please keep this show going!! Love to see support for the farmers and to show everyone living in a giant box of people where food comes from!
I must say Clarkson's Farm is very inspiring and i would really love to see more seasons from this show it's brilliant show, and also highlighted the farms struggles during certain time to those people who don't know how hard it is to be a farmer
very clever series. JC used his oafishness (at his own cost) to highlight how easy it is to fail and loose everything. (lambing to keep the grass down was a perfect example) Also showed the huge financial gambles and investments Farmers have to make to succeed...much bigger than most businesses. Not sure a second series would work the same way but I would watch it without question.
I think the second series will only strengthen it, it will either get better for him with hard and perseverance, or be even harder highlighting the real issues.... this isnt a short term problem its a long one. Win win for getting the message out really!
I want a world where both The Grand Tour and Clarksons Farm is possible. I did really enjoy Clarksons Farm, but i do enjoy the trio of him, James and Richard even more. I dont really care what they are doing, as long as they do it together. I would love to see them all work on that farm, they really did the best TV ever
This. Anyone of them (argueably James May is the one the most in need of the other two as he's quite booring/unfunny unless he has Clarkson and Hammond to play off on) alone make for meh/decent entertainment (Clarkson is the most capable out of the 3 to make one grin). But all 3 together is entertainment perfection.
My favourite bit was when he found out his spring water had shit in it but tbh there were so many favourite bits throughout the series. Every episode had so many hilarious and so many poignant moments but this extract was my second favourite and just about sums up the plight of the farmer moving forward. A brilliant first series and can't wait for Series 2.
I really do love the fact and respect Jeremy so much for breaking the fourth wall for just a moment there when he brought up Amazon and Millionaire. He makes it perfectly clear that he has other sources of income and backup plans to fall back on. Really his farm is just a side project, but as he says; What about the farmers that have no Plan B? That fourth wall break makes a big point. Well done, Jezza.
This is the reality of farming. Brought up on a farm in Wales, watched my parents toil very hard for very little reward. If it wasn’t for the subsidies and side projects my parents have earned absolutely FUCK ALL. That’s the reality of it.
And then think about farmers in poor countries that don't get the subsidies, and then wonder why, like the farmers in Afghanistan, they resort to crops that are illegal in western countries.
of course, what he did for the farming community was epic. but I'd also like to point out the difference he's made in the employees of the farm's lives. Kaleb and Gerald went from small town people to stars known and loved around the world. Well done Jezza. Cheers to you!
@@HappyDude1 i kind of get their point of view, chadlington was a town no one beyond a 20 mile radius knew about, but now its a global icon. small town to disneyland status. but this is just one angle, i think the good outweighs the bad especially because Jeremy was willing to work with the townspeople and address their concerns.
@@HappyDude1 Well I kinda get it and if I were them I'm not sure if I'd support his shenannigans either Imagine if all of a sudden your village of 12 and a half people in the middle of english countriside has hundreds of cars piling up on the road. The lengths they went to to just make it difficult on him were fucking riddiculous but I do understand the villagers not wanting their little village to have 100's of tourists day in and day out. That being said the farmers seemed all for it and most of the people kinda turned around by the end. It seemed to be mostly the building police that was against him.
This series really shed a big bright light on farming in the UK and showed how farming is done to the public. How hard it is, how challenging, how time consuming and how financially tight.
i loved this show please don't give up. i didn't realise how much hard work these farmers put in for not a whole lot of gain. i have mad respect for them and can't wait to see jeremey and caleb do it all again ok i googled it np, cya in 2 months lol
I love it how they use their other passions to show us other things than just cars which is undeniably great. With Clarkson with his farm, Hammond with his Smallest Cog and May with his bar and distillery either in Amazon or on UA-cam with Drive Tribe hopefully we will have great contents for a long while.
Hoping for season 2. I got to spend a lot of time on a couple small farms that were in my extended family growing up. Playing as a kid, then working to help out when I got older and had time. Most of the year though I'd live in urban areas, and it surprised me how little people seemed to know about what went into farming and where our food comes from. It's been great seeing people's reactions to season 1 and how many people are learning about all that from this show. Hope you keep it up, but even if you don't, thanks for drawing attention to it as you have already.
i am a farmer from malaysia..we grow a paddy in northern region of malaysia..i could relate when clarkson said he is happy in his farm watching the colour of autumn. That what make you a farmer eventhough your hard work doesnt pay you much but you are happy with your work. A farmer can't be rich..if we want to get rich be a trader, businessman or middle man that sells the product from a raw crop that was created by a farmer. Clarkson really nailed it..he brilliantly present to the world the farmer situation in this show..awesome.
I’d love for this to be shown on free tv. Many don’t appreciate farmers. How they do it for so little. And how it’s cheaper to sell up than continue. But they don’t. Because they aren’t in it for themselves they are in it for all of us. Without them we wouldn’t have food, we wouldn’t have many drinks. And I for one learnt more watching Clarksons farm than anyone farming related show including countryfile.
Geday Jezza, I am so glad you made this series and THIS episode because I am hoping it will educate all those who think we have it so easy and so on. I also see that you have discovered that it's a life thats pretty hard to beat, theres not a lot of money in it but it's a way of life, the seasons, each year is different and markets change along with the secondary industries that we rely upon for our income but nothing beats the satisfaction at the end of sowing a crop of what ever and all the perfectly straight furrows (and I'm not talking about GPS steering on your tractor, I've never used it). We are in an age where it's what we know and love but cannot survive unless we're some big corporation. Thanks for your show mate.
Please continue with the farm and as many farmers have to do supliment your income by doing some grand tour adventures, Kaleb would love to look after your farm when your gone.
Bloody love this programme. All of it. Nothing has highlighted farmings eternal struggles like Jeremy has. As a livestock farmer I'm so grateful. Yeah there's telly comedy and entertainment in it but it runs true to farming life. I wish my dad could have seen it.
I spent most of my adult life in agriculture working in a fertilizer and chemical dealership, from sweeping the floors to the manager. Also consulting and finally with 17 years selling JD equipment. Kind of strange for a city boy who grew up around Washington DC - and I'd do it all over again. It's honest work, you'll never be rich, but you'll look back on it as fulfilling. This show, is perfect, it's what Jeremy was destined to do and it will leave a lasting impact on farming in the UK. Jeremy, this was all worth it, you are making a difference in the lives of those who feed the world. In the immortal words of every farmer "it will be better next year"
This literally felt like watching the old Top Gear, something about the content and editing just pulled you in, either it's something funny, or something that magically felt outright romantic on top of the comedies...how fascinating.
1:05 - 2:56 That is and always will be the reason why the shows with Jeremy, James and Richard are so much better, besides all the nonsense the emotion they can deliver in the end is really special!
What was your favourite moment from Clarkson's Farm? 👀 ua-cam.com/video/JzlrYhp4gO0/v-deo.html
sheeping
The Diddly Squat Farm Shop
When he sold the potatoes 👍
When is series 2 coming out? Will there be another?
Lisa
The impact that this show has had on the British farming community is incredible. And I suspect I'm not alone when I say bring on the next season.
I can't wait
What impact had it? Not from the UK, just want to know
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@@qasimahmed3301 I'm not from the UK either but I agree with this man not only British farming but shines a light on farmers globally as hard working and under appreciated
is there even going to be a next season?
"What's a farmer going to do, the ones without Amazon film crew following them about", he really nails it there.
WEF in full swing, controlling the food chain
Next year will get even worse, more CO2 emission bans which will disrupt farming across all of Europe. Food prices are going to sky rocket!!!!
The question is not "what are farmers going to do?" the question is "what are farmers doing at the moment?" 144pounds profit is no incentive at all to do thing the right way. Quality is probably at the all time lowest already and much worse to come.
they go back to colonization again?
@@WhoIsAliceD I mean , if they sold their equipment and parts of land they would have more money than the average human earns in a life time
France agreeing with Jeremy Clarkson is something I did not expect. Nicely done, Clarkson.
French agreeing with a brit is a rare sight indeed
@@pffpffovich2398 It only ever happens under dire circumstances
@@billy4734...like famine?
The EU's PAC is destroying agriculture it's insane...
This show needs to continue. It has probably done more to help the farming community than you will ever realize.
Indeed. So much awareness has effectively been brought to British farming because it. Can't wait for season 2!
Found the show to be pretty enjoyable
I believe season 2 is planned to be 'done' by january 2023. Not sure when it will air, though.
Season 2 is already done i think, if not its almost done then 4-6 months editing then it will be out
subsidy isn't nearly as important as opening trade and letting farmers find resources without government meddling in the economy, of which drives up their costs. Subsidy is nothing more than marxism lite.
As a farmer, this part of the series was so important for the world to see. Most of us aren't doing this because we are getting rich, we are doing it because we love what we do.
Thank you for feeding us.
@@beatamafulu2405 My Pleasure!
Same as being a fisherman
Our governments need to put our farmers first. Not other countries!
I hear you - I lived with a farmer mate of mine for a year in my early 20s, going through the finances in the farm office was pretty sobering stuff. That poor guy inherited the farm at 17 years old along with 400,000 pounds in debt. I am please to say however that he's turned it around in the 20 years since then but god he had to grow up quickly. Sadly, he did so not so much by farming, but through other business ventures - converting and renting out cottages, building a couple of houses on his land and selling those, renting our barns to historic vehicle groups, renting his fields out for arable. He still rears sheep, makes cider and breeds pigs, but that is more out of the love of it than anything else.
Not only does Jeremy look happier but even just down to his health. Even just by loosing weight he looks fitter, stronger even let alone his mental well-being
Who cares
@@HaHa-bc4zr clearly you dont, and clearly someone who wrote this comment does.
Go away train not being an ass somewhere thats not public place
Lose*. I hate when people write loose. Did you know loose is a different word with a different meaning? Sort your life out please mate. Think about it before you type it.
@@Peterviegal Goddamn seriously? Its a tiny detail in a fully functional sentence it does not matter.
@@finland2306 No, I have had it with you lot! It's a different word altogether. It's like calling you a fuckwit instead of a good bloke. Different meanings.
This really made me tear up. My Grandfather has been farming since a boy he's in his 80s now and still going in Daventry. I never really knew the struggles. He even said Jeremy Clarkson has done more for farming with this series than farming weekly ever has. Well done guys.
This is the reason why my two sons never took up farming ,a lot of hard work for no reward
Imagine if Jeremy ran as an independent for the House of Commons & during Question Time, he got stuck-into all those "Trouser Leg Rolled Up & Drive a Lexus Lodge" politicians who have been making all these anti-farming laws for decades?
@@mrbillhilly343 God, if someone told me 5 years ago that I would genuinely think that Clarkson of all people would make a positive impact in the House of Commons
I would have called you mad
I don't know, what's changed. Like 2 years from now what can we say is different because of this show. A few more people have an appreciation of how farmers are milked?
@@billytheripper4 and in the same two years we’ve stopped eating European food and started eating American
I love how JC can be the clown who makes other farmers think he's taking the mickey, only for him to turn it all around with a serious homage to the struggles farmers face and generate more sympathy and understanding for them than anyone else has been able to do. That's genuinely JC at his best (both as clown and as herald)
Agree......agree......agree!
yeah, very good journalism or even just good TV
The Clown and Herald should be the name of his farm pub
@@jameswood1935 Maybe "Jester" would be more fitting with Herald then, but I'd have a pint there.
That’s well put
French Farmers sent me here
And me too
From Australia 🇦🇺
the french told me about clarkson, the memories are once more
when french support a brit, you know the governments and leftists city shits have messed up
Same here
Same here, prayers for our farmers around the world
From Virginia in the USA
Jeremy did far more for British farmers with 1 series of his Amazon series than every sitting MP regardless of their flavour has done for them over the last 50 years by far
When has politician ever done something for the farmer?
@@neurocidesakiwi Although the video literally answered this question within the first minute, showing your inability to absorb even the most basic information, a large number of first world countries hand out subsidies to farmers as a way to ensure they remain at least somewhat profitable. These subsidies are driven entirely by government policy in almost all instances, so the meal you eat tonight is likely, partly, paid for by a politician's decision making to do "something for the farmer."
Hopefully this response has helped you understand, even at a very rudimentary level, how a politician may have done something for the farmer at some point.
@@keyhole150 oh youre the type of person to call other ppl stupid while advocating living off the government
@@TobyW360 Nope, stuck paying 35% income tax like most of us unfortunately. I hate gov and politicians as much as the next person does, but as someone in Ag myself, it's facetious to say there's nothing done to help us, we need the help because giant corps have pretty much bled our profits dry (in Aus at least)
Really? Wanna swap out you government subsidies for Jeremy Clarksons kind words? Didn't think so.
Don't get me wrong, I'm definitely on the farmers side and 100% support those subsidies, but ungratefulness is never pretty.
When Jeremy said “next time a farmer complains about the weather, put your ARM round him and buy him a pint” that’s the single most thing he said during this entire series that really puts a lump in your throat for these farmers and how bad they get screwed every which way from Sunday .
Can’t imagine what it’s like for them this year with the summer with no rain and fuel increases and price increases
Yes the weather can really screw up a farmers income.
Famers are the Biggest Gamblers in the World. Most of the time, it's " All in" for them. Until my Parents broke the chain, the family on both sides were farmers for 5 generations, but my parents ensured we knew how to farm and take care of animals. Some of the hardest work I have ever done but also some of the most rewarding.
We all get screwed thanks to this government. Not just farmers .
@@cooper512 I have a couple mates who run farms and certainly for them it's actually been a decent year so far. However that is largely due to their seeds, pesticides etc having been bought at the old prices (which are now way higher) but then being able to sell the end product at the higher rates. It's the year after that they're dreading as their prices are insanity for the supplies now and there's no guarantee that they'll be getting the higher prices for end product after harvest.
After seeing this series, I realised this has become a worldwide thing..
Us, farmers of Nepal, struggle the same for all the work done for the year...
It's horrifying what humanity has in the future
even dutch agriculture... 2nd food exporter in the world despite being the most populated european country while being a postal sized stamp of a country, the govourment does everything to destroy it. its litterally batshit insane
its so sad when farming is quite literally the backbone of every community. WIthout farms there would literally be no food (well no food on the shelvs) and we would have to farm our own food (and even then alot of houses in urban ears barely have a garden in the UK!). Farmers deserve so much more!
@@jimmys1558 the worst thing about it ,is that they are sending billions of € to a country nobody fucking cares.
They are waiting on that country to give back ressources in the future but probably will not do anything to pay back what they have taken from us.
Farmers should've been paid correctly instead of giving out money to waste, no farmers = no food, no food = we dead.
@@jimmys1558 "most populated european country" What?
If you don't count Russia and Turkey then Germany is the most populated european country, not the Netherlands.
I assume you mean most densely populated european country? Because if so then yes!... If you ignore The Vatican, San Marino, Malta and Monaco
It’s all coordinated and done on purpose
I felt that when Jeremy said “Next time a farmer moans about the weather, put your arm round him and buy him a pint”. You know shit’s real when he’s serious
The best, most original and authentic television that Clarkson has done for years.
This. That's what makes it for me, it felt authentic. So many people blindly praise the Grand Tour but it never really felt like those early Top Gear days. It was too over the top, too reliant on spectacle and faked shenanigans. Clarkson's farm showed us something genuine with Jeremy learning how to manage his farm for real. Looking forward to series 2.
The ONLY original and authentic series really. I'm pleased though. If he can learn, everyone can
@@annnee6818 have you not seen the work he did on the Victoria Cross & the greatest raid of all?
@@matthewmac5787 Agreed. His wartime documentaries are incredible, interesting, and deeply sincere.
No cars wtf is this
I'm a vet student, and the thing I've come to appreciate the most is that one bad harvest, one bad batch of feed, one incidence of disease, and an entire farming enterprise can be devestated. The amount of record keeping, research and management that goes into farming is incredible and I think Clarkson is doing a fantastic job showing just some of the many difficulties faced by our farmers around the world.
you predicted season 2
That’s why there is the subsidy for bad years. Not for topping up there profit every year, it’s for when it goes wrong. Farming is hardwork, who said it was an easy life, that’s why they’re celebrated. However the farmers I know are quite happy to pass the hard work onto someone else for shit salaries based on performance, and they’re using the subsidies to go on 6 holidays a year and buy the latest Range Rover.
If I can give you one word of advice, my friend, unless you are independently wealthy and able to pay your tuition in cash and have no need of working to make a living after you graduate, get out of the vet program. There are approximately 8 full on, board certified vets in the US for every one vet job/clinic that produces a bare living wage but all those degree holders are still stuck paying back their monstrous student loans, even though most never work in the field or make any money from their degree. The universities realized there were a bunch of girls who love animals and could be convinced a vet degree would allow them to have a career as an animal savior and the girls just ate it the fuck up and flocked into and flooded the vet programs. Now there are a zillion vets and none of them are working but more girls are still drinking the cool-aide and still signing up for student loans that will mean they likely will have to chose between buying a modest house and having kids, they won't be able to afford to have both, even with a high earning husband. Men are discovering, by the way, that girls with excessive student loans are the kiss of death, just like single mothers are. So give your future the best chance it can have, do anything but continue on in the vet program. Even a Mcdonalds employee with a little financial savvy will end up with a better financial outcome than almost all vet degree holders.
@@squarepinapples9116Yep. Most of the owners are filthy rich and suffer from a serious case of "survivor bias". They get lucky with their first couple crops and all of a sudden they act like they took a million risks and worked 20 hour shifts their whole lives to get there, it's just the funniest thing. I only feel bad for the other ones, the ones that actually work.
@@squarepinapples9116 subsidies are the wrong tool for the job, there are plenty of other tools to de-risk agriculture, future markets are extremely good at price discovery so you don't over produce driving profit to 0, setting up insurance scheme like the rest of the private market has for disaster relief, it's far better than incentivizing inefficient land usage.
A tractor driver Kaleb might say otherwise but I take my hat off to you this series was some of the best TV made in a long while
@@jdms2830 legend!
He might not have been a good tractor driver. But he was in a tractor. And he did drive it.
@@jdms2830 Stop right there! You've violated the law, criminal scum.
I really loved this series, really shines a light on the struggle of people on the land.
Kaleb is a deadset legend.
Kaleb must be protected at all costs ua-cam.com/users/shortsgfxSJewUny8
Kaleb would be a great young fisherman so much drive and enthusiasm! Good luck to all you real people.
As a farmer this scene was absolutely gold. Kinda brought a tear to the corner of the eye. Every turn is made more difficult by a bored pencil pusher that never held a still born calf with a broken heart yet the passion pulls us along almost by instinct. Grind on fellows .
"never held a still born calf with a broken heart" - yet you'd happily see them milked until they are exhausted, and/or sent to an early grave for a bit of cash in your pocket. OK.
Honestly this has been a joy to watch and allowed tons of people to become way more educated in farming.
theyre all so agenst farming due ideology
@@The_Situationnothing wrong with that kid
@@yeshuaislord6880 No, there's isn't, but let's be honest what the broken heart is for: lost profit.
Life will never be the same when Clarkson's gone what a guy a living legend. Keep the farm going
It won’t be the same when all three of them are gone.
aye pray his health is good to him
I dread it.
they are started to recording 3rd season i hope they will release 2nd one soon
As a a farmer in the US (Virginia) I can say so much of this rings true in the US as well.
This is the best show on farming I’ve ever watched. I’m also a huge fan of the 3 boys and anything they do.
Hello fellow Virginian,
God Bless the Farmer and may all of Congress stop braying long enough to support domestic food production
@@michaelbitzer6827 The elite want us to hate consumerism that's sustained us for over 150 years. Who allowed all the illegal immigration, outsourcing and monopolization of corporations? WW2 veterans, Silents, and Boomers! May they all burn in hell for their apathy.
@@michaelbitzer6827
Amen to that.
Interesting choice of words, “braying”.
Last time I heard that said of a noisy jack ass was several years ago from my grandfather. Luckily he is still alive at 96. Clean farm living served him well.
God bless brother.
@@andyh0010 He wants to return farming to a more sustainable program and doing that as well as wildlife management is best done on large tracts of land
@@andyh0010 If he squashes the competition, Petro Chemical based mega farms own by multinational corporations and Hedge Funds then the world will have turned for the better I think. Less than 10% of all farms in America are owned and managed by Families and local Co ops. For farmers to be able to lease and manage land owned by someone who supports sustainability practices will benefit in cleaner water, better water management and a whole host of other side benefits, without forcing any ideas or practices on anyone. Farmers know what works for the big picture and it seems Gates understands that
Growing up on a farm and watching my dad get squeezed out of farming. thank you letting people see this.
What can we do for farmers?
buy directly at the farm instead of at stores would be a good start I think, go to the farm for your eggs, potatoes, milk, cheese buy anything from the farm that you could also buy in a store@@manny7662
buy local! @@manny7662
I can't stress this enough but my family runs a family farm as an additional income and what keeps us going is that we can sell our produce on our doorstep
beef, cheese, home made alcohol, potatoes .... stuff like that!
we have regular costumers, people who buy from us because they are sure that what they get is GOOD
sop if you can. buy local and directly from farmers!
@@manny7662nothing, increase the price and other low income people suffer. Crop prices are the backbone of economy especially in developing country.
@@manny7662why should we do something for them?
If theres too many food, why should we help farmers make more food.
It's a wake up call for the British to start supporting their farmers. If you can't grow your own food and have to rely on imports, one day you will be shocked. It's actually a serious security issue. Keep the farm Jeremy and bring on next season.
Something something U-Boats.
@@JayDee-b5u If you control someone's food supply you can much more easily control their actions. Thus a secure food supply is essential for the security of a free nation.
Beyond that if a nation has its food supply cut or restricted then there will come a point where that nation's people will overthrow their leadership in order to restore the food supply.
It's part of the bigger plan. Farms need to be shut down so that people starve and die. The Great Reset to save the planet and re-introduce wild bore and award Greta a Damehood.
@d c Coming to you too so don't get smug.
@@JayDee-b5u "Security is Security, Food is Food" is a Ministry of Truth line.
Seeing food as a potential nation security issue is a historically proven fact especially in the UK's case as we have seen not once but twice in modern history where the cut off in imports via U-Boats threatened the food supply of the nation let alone all other goods.
Now is it the largest security issue? No it's not for many nations but that doesn't mean it isn't something that can be ignored.
after i saw the first season i converted a third of my garden into farmland. I grew pumpkins this year, 50 seeds for £2.50. I've been selling them all last week for a quid each. I only have 6 left. I also have grown 50 all year round lettuce heads, again £2.50 for 50 seeds. Those sold out the second the heatwave hit. Had them in cold storage, took leaves off, put them in XL sandwich bags. Same weight as Tesco and Asda, but at 50% less price. The money has gone into getting the tree cut down and the leaves are being turned into natural compost for next years crops. Still have about £20 left over. I also have a chili pepper plant, a cherry tomato plant and a dozen shallots to be planted in the new year. Im hoping that word of mouth in the area spreads so next year, i sell out again on everything. Its more for the community and my own health, than the money to be fair. Gives me an excuse to go outside for a hour or two a day. And its all thanks to Clarksons Farm.
Good for you!
Good job, we should all be following your example.
@@DreamClean If we all did this, the supermarkets would become redundant!
Ahh have a go now why not aye? Cheers from an aussie farmer 👍
bad goy!
I live in a farming community in eastern Pennsylvania,
and my friend who's a dairy farmer told me years ago,
"If anyone made as little as I do, they'ld quit, and no one would have milk".
And he wasn't kidding!
the struggle in farming is universal sadl, even in my home country of india if you worked hard 365 days a year for 50 years straight you still couldn't afford to buy the land that your farm would be situated on, let alone the equipment and expenses.
Why do farms make so little? Genuine question. I've never thought they didnt make money i always thought the opposite in fact. That it was pretty lucrative
To be fair, dairy is one of those markets that is artificially made in the US. Before WW2 and prohibition, it didn’t even exist. And then it was artificially floated by the government buying milk all the way up until reagan. The got milk campaign was literally a government psyop to float the diary market.
The fat electrician has a good video on it
so why doesn't he quit?
I think as well as the current battle that is being fought there needs to be more innovation to monetise farming, and for farmers to sell produce more directly
I love Jeremy for being so real. He doesn't filter his opinions. He doesn't get a ton of plastic surgery to look like a melted doll. He accepts what he is, which is an aging British man, and doesn't try to pose for anyone. Seems pretty rare in the film industry today. That's probably why his opinions are so respected
Jeremy the amount that you have inspired farmers around the world is priceless. You've made history.
Regardless if you are a British farmer , life isn't easy for any farmer in the world. I come from a Farming family and mate it was never easy and it never is , all the farmers are just ❤️
he showed how valuable farmers are to everyone.
Life ain't easy for anyone self employed 👊🏻 unless your a bugler, drug dealer, or immigrant 🤷♂️ fact
@@Tso007 bro what the fuck is up with the "immigrant"? Like you listed it in with real criminalys wtf bro you serious?
But especially British farmers
@@billytheripper4 we are not going down that hole pal
I love this side of Jezza. Probably all of us here grew up watching Top Gear and hearing him say he's allergic to manual labor and now look at him. The awareness to farming this show has brought I feel has helped tremendously not only in the UK but here in the US as well. I've heard from several people that they watched it and never knew exactly how it was done or how hard and demanding it was. Can't wait for season 2!!
Clarkson's farm was one of the best shows I've watched. Absolutely loved it
I think its the best thing Jeremy ever did. He learns and educates people about farming, and how hard it is.
Fantastic show.
I actually bumped into Clarkson many years back and he was an incredibly courteous and respectful guy.
Courteous and respectful unless you're French 😂
@@ArvilVonPoney Well to be fair... They ARE French...
This actually brought a tear to my eye. This is something his soul has been craving for decades you can tell his reactions are completely genuine he cares so much about the farm and his animals. Top gear was his early life when he was going fast and living side by side with his mates but this is the balance he really needed
Happy to see Jeremy showing genuine support and compassion to farmers after his 1 year of experience. While he wasn't serious all the time, he still learnt the true daily hardships these people face just to feed people and make a living for themselves.
The genuine desire to feed people (in the Western world at least), seems to be the most impossible thing anybody would ever attempt. Having people literally scream murder at you whilst you actually keep them alive day to day must be the strangest thing to ever experience. God Bless you all.
"I can either go back to London and resume my old life..or"
"Yes, do that!"😂😂😂
Kaleb is the 4th Presenter!!
After this experience I don't think he will return to any city permanently. There is too much of an emotional investment in the farm.
😂
My great grandparents owned a 96 acre farm in west Tennessee when I was a kid. Loved it! In my 20's they sold it off in 1/4 acre lots for houses. When I was 28 I took my wife there once, I'm 42 and haven't been back. No reason now.
Actually the fact that he was still in the positive after all that new equipment he had to buy is quite impressive. Here's a pint for you Jeremy!
yup, and all the construction work.
The farm shop, access road to it, parking for it. The new fencing for the sheep, the pond and creek.
Not all of it will ever repay itself, but a lot of it will over a few years start bringing in a positive cash flow.
Exactly. That's really amazing. He's into good money as his expenses come down a bit; weather permitting, etc. Also, you can't neglect the fact that he's paid wages to a shepherd, wages to a couple farm hands, and so on. They are as much the farmers needing support as he is. A lot of good got done in that year. Really impressive.
Actually non of the equipment was new, it was all used. Also it's pretty big farm, as per European standards, and Caleb seams to know what he is doing so amount of crops to sell was decent. Im not trying to diminish his achievement, but if it were new machines figures he showed would have to be multiplied by 3 or 4, depending on pice, leading to serious debt.
@@tjurzyk it's still a significant expense up front.
Actually on the machines the spread the costs. So he bought his tractor for 40k. Let's say they think he will own it for 4 years. They account it has 10k a year
Jeremy is a gift to this world.
A gift with the gift of genius 🧠 ua-cam.com/video/jJ3Tdb0969A/v-deo.html
if the gift is misogynistic bigots who love polluting the planet and making shitty remarks about people then sure. what a gift. but if your sole reason for calling him a gift is because hes entertained you in a tv show then that just makes you a fool aswell.
@@Deathwish026 Didn't ask for your opinion did I snowflake? Go cry somewhere else.
@Charming Chowder Unless you are a producer, in witch case his "lovely personality" is to punch you, because he had a bad day. Or if you are a woman in media, in which case he will write articles about how he fantazises about parading you naked in the street to a choir of people shouting "shame". But y'know. Lovely personality.
😂🤣not anymore, bye bye Jeremy 👋😂
Its sad that the UK is not the only country facing these problems , developed countries are losing their farmer and grow more and more dependent on other countries to be able to feed their people. I feel a country that is not able to provide its own basic needs (Food, Water, Electricity) are being irresponsible and are going to be at risk in the future.
Yes, I'm in France and the situation is most likely very similar to the one in the UK, farmers are killing themselves every day because they just cannot survive with how little money they get and how high the bills are
There is no way within 10 years we will be able to feed ourselves without other countries
Our various government from the left to the right all killed agriculture and now it's slowly but surely dying
Just see what happened with Russia, because they don't provide us with the electricity, and gas anymore, most of Europe is screwed.
Everything has gone up price wise except for the salaries... Loads of places are closing up shop because its just too expensive to keep going.
I hope this serves as a wakeup call to most places, and they start to get atleast 80% self sufficient, so we don't get these problems again.
I live in Denmark, arguably one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and we are just as fucked as everybody else.....
To be fair, it's not like farms are being stopped, they're just not being owned by independent farmers. Now it's all big companies that can absorb losses and run in deficit to kill off the competition.
Meanwhile, in Australia we have 25 million people and can feed 65 million.
@@yt.personal.identification In an episode of Top gear, they showed one farm that was half the size of England..... so Yea , I will Believe that, and if you ate the DANGEROUS insects too, you could probably feed half the planet.
Clarkson, the best ambassador for the British farmer. Keep going, raise awareness of the red tape killing farming.
Bring on series 2, best show on tv.
Its not red tape killing farming, its leaving the EU and all those juicy subsidies thats killing it, oh, wait, the tories said they'll replace them......I wouldn't hold your breath.
You probably don't even know which supposed "red tape" is killing farming. Just regurgitating tired talking points with very little thought.
@@bannjaxx And it's not just killing farming, importing and exporting have increased the "red tape" threefold and for a lot of people and most importantly companies in the EU it's not worth the faff. This is going to be much worse than it is even now. The NHS is near collapse or has collapsed already. My friend's dad has some autoimmune disorder, he can barely swallow, losing weight and despite moving heaven and hell he won't be able to see a specialist for at least four months. If he makes it that far... soooo thanks, Boris.
@@bannjaxx Yeah haven't heard the leader of the labours (can't remember his name) say he'll keep the UK farming subsidy. Why can't people just pay the real price of food anyway then we wouldn't need subsidies.
@@annnee6818 As if ferocious supermarket competition for the last 25 years and driving down food prices so the public can buy food at rock bottom prices hadn't pretty much put the writing on the wall already for British family farming. I can't find figures for the percent of UK food that is exported but as we are only 60% self sufficient in food, decreasing exports to high tariff eu countries and consuming it ourselves is an option to help with food security. Indeed there is a drive to do this with trying to sell fish other than cod or haddock to the public instead of selling it to Europe, we just deal with the British public's fussy unexperimental relationship 'thing' it has with food first.
The emotions pouring from this five minutes clip should be the benchmark for every television show from now on, forever.
I haven't watched the show, but this video has convinced me too now. What a beautiful video.
he was quite brave to bring these issues of food production and logistics, weather, equipment , markets, and beaurocracy for farmers, to a larger audience. And as always with wit and humility..
Humility? Lol! JC is a national treasure, brilliant on his day but humble he's not.
He picked the worst time to be a farmer, as governments want them all shutdown.
@@rorykeegan1895 im still yet to see why this opinion exists, he's endlessly self deprecating and yet people call him arrogant
@@rorykeegan1895 Clarkson as humble ,,,,sarcasm ,,,,,,
@@RWoody1995 He has a certain smugness about him, but it's part of his character in The Trio.
This show has raised awareness of a huge issue we all face - The future of food production. Farmers and old people suffer from the same plight, they are completely unappreciated and disrespected and both have so much to offer.
One year a go at 72, my wife and I “retired” a second time FROM a 50’ sailboat to 70 bare acres in northern Wisconsin. We now have a barn, a tractor, 30 sheep, 12 cows, and dozens of chickens. It is an exhausting life and we love it, but it does not make money. We are living in a 32’ RV inside the barn as the first snows fall, and much of our savings for building a house has been exhausted in inflation and fighting the regulations.
You do a great job of telling the story, but never feel alone. There are a lot of us trying….struggling to work this out. It was great to listen to you tell “our story” along with yours.
a lot of those regulations are corporate ones and have nothing to do with health or safety or environmental reasons - its just so the same company that buys (and sells you the needed bs) can squeeze you. If you dare even stand up to let the public know they come knocking on the door with lawyers like the mob would to snuff out a rat.
Funny how capitalism ruins everything
Please bring another season of the farm! It's amazing
It’s out early next year
All four seasons.
@@wayland7150 4 seasons?
@@daltonrow In a year :-)
@@daltonrow A year has four seasons.
How a man such as this can make you both laugh with a smile and make your tear glands constrict with pain is unbelievable. All while delivering a great message. His ability to put the obvious out there (his being on a show) and then deliver a deep message is just credence to how great this man really is. Who would have ever thought “farming?” But here we are and we love it
As big of an impact as Jeremy has had on the motoring world I think this is probably his greatest contribution to humanity. This show has shone a light on what the most important people in the world are up against, without farmers everything else in modern society is irrelevant, for Jeremy to pull the curtain back on the beaurocratic impositions that farmers have to fight against, and how difficult and thankless their job is has been positively eye opening for millions of people. Thank you Jeremy.
I always knew farming was tough, and had a great respect for farmers, but I never knew it was THAT bad. 144 quid for a year's hard graft? Measly. The whole "back british farming" gets tossed around now as just another saying, but its message is strong we DO need to back our farmers, without them, we have nothing. This show perfectly showed the struggles farmers face, and we should all take heed of that warning and buy British. I welcome the 2nd series with open arms.
well, he spent a lot of money on machinery which he only needs to buy once for many years(including a lambo tractor), but yeah
But he did made a hell lot of mess up.. i think the only thing he did right was wheat.. I have a farming background and although it was very entertaining..he did make quite costly mistakes.. especially buying those sheeps .. trust me goats would have been a lot lot lot better..
Like someone else has said, Clarkson incurred many fixed capital expenses and also had his fair share of accidents. More to the point, though, I don’t get this whole “protect our farms” thing. It’s just as well to buy your wheat, eggs, and whatnot from Brazil, Ukraine, or even the United States (who also “protects” their farmers). If it’s a question of money, then sell the farm and go into engineering, or finance, or whatever. In the richest countries like Britain, US, Japan, etc., what gets these countries where they are is the fact that people leave behind low-value activities such as farming in favor of high value ones like banking and technology. If Britain lost all of its farms, nobody outside the farming community could care less. I’m not from Britain, and so I wasn’t even aware Britain still really has farms, so that makes Clarkson’s achievement appear beyond brilliant in my estimation.
That is only because of his outlay and spending to get the business up.
No one makes money in at first for a new business especially when he's bought multiple farming equipment far too big for the farm and built multiple buildings and car parks etc the future. I don't feel sorry for him as just this program would have covered everything financially and now it all profit. Especially his farm shop which year doing really well
Well this has always been the goal of Capitalism. To focus all Wealth into the Hands of very few. The Wealth has to come from somewhere, so any REAL job that generates any REAL wealth like farming, production and craftsmanship gets paid like dirt because of hundreds of laws and social forces that have worked on this for the last 100 Years.
So we reach today in which any carrier in something requiring (High) education, that is massively expensive, that literally only exists to manipulate imaginary numbers or bullshit poor people, generates millions for those in the right birth rank and everybody else gets slowly bleed out like a pig in a slaughter house.
And once you can't afford to hold to your ancestors Land anymore, they will buy it off you cheaper than can possibly believe, making sure that the REAL wealth (Land, Possessions and influence) will always be held solely by the few born high enough.
You can take away the Nobles titles and supposed lawfull power but you can't take away the fact that they are old money. And Old Money doesn't care what you call it, as long as it rules the world.
PS: Fun fact not anit-royal (I am german and i find it funny that basically all still existing Royal families in the World are German to some degree^^) nor anti open market economy.(Capitalism and Communism are not actually directly comparable because the first is a mindset and philosophy of action within an Economic system and Communism IS an Economic system, different from the one humans have used since the dawn of civilization, I hate both since the are both crap.)
I was lucky enough to have worked on a farm a few years ago and it's true that there is always something beautiful to witness, whether it's the sparkling of spider webs laced over crops on an early dewy morning or the loving guidance a mother sheep shows towards its little lambs.
I'm a city boy and this was a real eye opener. Love this series. Love Clarkson. More please.
february 10th!
"put your arm around him and buy him a pint" literally brought me to tears. Damn Jeremy, it's so easy to forget how intelligent and deep he can be
Honestly if there is one thing I'm looking forward to it's going to be the nest season of this amazing show. It's just so unique
I genuinely believe what started as an idea to be light hearted "Clarkson cocking about" show has become so much more - it has shined a light on the trails, tribulations and hardships faced each year by the farming community in the UK as a whole. It has highlighted the extremely high outlays needed to generate relatively low profits, the skill needed to keep the farm actually running, along with unholy commitment required.
Well done for making the show and I really hope that a season two is underway !
I bloody enjoy what you’ve done Jeremy. Bring on the new series and keep your passion for farmers strong!
Texas Tech!!
Jeremy has (had) dedicated his whole life to automotive journalism, and is rightfully so, the most influential motoring journalist alive.
Yet this, a simple series about farming is his most influential work. I genuinely believe this is what will be his legacy.
Jezza. A living legend.
Im farming in New Zealand and even on my worst of days where everything can go wrong, DOES go wrong, i can sit down after a terrible day and have a good laugh raise the spirits a bit and think "It could always be worse", and think there is nothing else I would rather do, keep positive, keep you head up high, The sun will rise tomorrow and start anew and enjoy this small bit of chaos we call life :) can't wait for season 2 go for it Clarkson!
am i crazy to say my dream is to retire in NZ and do farming?
@@darren1119nah, personally the best place to go farming.
Please please please keep this show going!! Love to see support for the farmers and to show everyone living in a giant box of people where food comes from!
I must say Clarkson's Farm is very inspiring and i would really love to see more seasons from this show it's brilliant show, and also highlighted the farms struggles during certain time to those people who don't know how hard it is to be a farmer
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very clever series. JC used his oafishness (at his own cost) to highlight how easy it is to fail and loose everything. (lambing to keep the grass down was a perfect example) Also showed the huge financial gambles and investments Farmers have to make to succeed...much bigger than most businesses. Not sure a second series would work the same way but I would watch it without question.
I think the second series will only strengthen it, it will either get better for him with hard and perseverance, or be even harder highlighting the real issues.... this isnt a short term problem its a long one. Win win for getting the message out really!
Theres always plenty of things to go wrong in farming to make an entertaining television show
trust me.
Jeremy Clarkson isn’t for everyone but for me he is just an amazing person. Can’t wait for season two and I hope they keep coming for ever more.
sadly they are done....
@@michaelvandelden563 they're making a 2nd and 3rd season already.
I want a world where both The Grand Tour and Clarksons Farm is possible. I did really enjoy Clarksons Farm, but i do enjoy the trio of him, James and Richard even more. I dont really care what they are doing, as long as they do it together. I would love to see them all work on that farm, they really did the best TV ever
This. Anyone of them (argueably James May is the one the most in need of the other two as he's quite booring/unfunny unless he has Clarkson and Hammond to play off on) alone make for meh/decent entertainment (Clarkson is the most capable out of the 3 to make one grin). But all 3 together is entertainment perfection.
My favourite bit was when he found out his spring water had shit in it but tbh there were so many favourite bits throughout the series. Every episode had so many hilarious and so many poignant moments but this extract was my second favourite and just about sums up the plight of the farmer moving forward. A brilliant first series and can't wait for Series 2.
I really do love the fact and respect Jeremy so much for breaking the fourth wall for just a moment there when he brought up Amazon and Millionaire. He makes it perfectly clear that he has other sources of income and backup plans to fall back on. Really his farm is just a side project, but as he says; What about the farmers that have no Plan B? That fourth wall break makes a big point. Well done, Jezza.
You can really see the happiness on his face as he's talking about how much he loves that work.
This is the reality of farming. Brought up on a farm in Wales, watched my parents toil very hard for very little reward. If it wasn’t for the subsidies and side projects my parents have earned absolutely FUCK ALL. That’s the reality of it.
And then think about farmers in poor countries that don't get the subsidies, and then wonder why, like the farmers in Afghanistan, they resort to crops that are illegal in western countries.
The Farmers around here in Cowbridge multi millionaires, since when have you seen a poor farmer, howells just done a mobile milk shed
of course, what he did for the farming community was epic. but I'd also like to point out the difference he's made in the employees of the farm's lives. Kaleb and Gerald went from small town people to stars known and loved around the world. Well done Jezza. Cheers to you!
I saw season 2
And i dont get it why the town and the community was so against him they refused all his ideas
@@HappyDude1 i kind of get their point of view, chadlington was a town no one beyond a 20 mile radius knew about, but now its a global icon. small town to disneyland status. but this is just one angle, i think the good outweighs the bad especially because Jeremy was willing to work with the townspeople and address their concerns.
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I would like to visit him and talk about it 😀 england is not that far
@@HappyDude1 Last I checked it wasnt so much the community that was against him but the people in charge.
@@HappyDude1 Well
I kinda get it and if I were them I'm not sure if I'd support his shenannigans either
Imagine if all of a sudden your village of 12 and a half people in the middle of english countriside has hundreds of cars piling up on the road. The lengths they went to to just make it difficult on him were fucking riddiculous but I do understand the villagers not wanting their little village to have 100's of tourists day in and day out. That being said the farmers seemed all for it and most of the people kinda turned around by the end. It seemed to be mostly the building police that was against him.
This series really shed a big bright light on farming in the UK and showed how farming is done to the public. How hard it is, how challenging, how time consuming and how financially tight.
This show is so wholesome
This show actually brings me lots of joy and brought peace and laughter to my mind when I’m in a very different time
As a Canadian farmer I absolutely loved this show! What a great look inside life on the farm
I love you Jeremy, I see what you are doing here. And it will probably have an huge impact on how people see farmers. Good man !
i loved this show please don't give up.
i didn't realise how much hard work these farmers put in for not a whole lot of gain. i have mad respect for them and can't wait to see jeremey and caleb do it all again
ok i googled it np, cya in 2 months lol
I love it how they use their other passions to show us other things than just cars which is undeniably great. With Clarkson with his farm, Hammond with his Smallest Cog and May with his bar and distillery either in Amazon or on UA-cam with Drive Tribe hopefully we will have great contents for a long while.
I hope there will be a second season. It really is a great show and we learn to appreciate the hard work of farmers.
Feb it's due out. Takes a whole year to film as obviously they cover a full year on a farm
I just love Jeremy. He is a good human being. Has a big heart and tells it like it is. The world is a better place with him in it.
Hoping for season 2.
I got to spend a lot of time on a couple small farms that were in my extended family growing up. Playing as a kid, then working to help out when I got older and had time. Most of the year though I'd live in urban areas, and it surprised me how little people seemed to know about what went into farming and where our food comes from.
It's been great seeing people's reactions to season 1 and how many people are learning about all that from this show.
Hope you keep it up, but even if you don't, thanks for drawing attention to it as you have already.
preety sure it has been recorded now just editing it
I personally am very proud of Jeremy and all he has achieved. Well done and I wish you a very profitable 2nd year with your farm.
Maybe 200 quid
i am a farmer from malaysia..we grow a paddy in northern region of malaysia..i could relate when clarkson said he is happy in his farm watching the colour of autumn.
That what make you a farmer eventhough your hard work doesnt pay you much but you are happy with your work.
A farmer can't be rich..if we want to get rich be a trader, businessman or middle man that sells the product from a raw crop that was created by a farmer.
Clarkson really nailed it..he brilliantly present to the world the farmer situation in this show..awesome.
Some of Clarkson's greatest work. I truly thought TG could not be topped but this is up there.
Hand in heart this the most fun, interesting, and most entertaining documentary i've ever seen. Can't wait for the next series, genuinely fantastic
How very nice to hear you have find true happiness, even if it was just in passing. Cherish the memories of those good times!
I’d love for this to be shown on free tv. Many don’t appreciate farmers. How they do it for so little. And how it’s cheaper to sell up than continue.
But they don’t. Because they aren’t in it for themselves they are in it for all of us. Without them we wouldn’t have food, we wouldn’t have many drinks.
And I for one learnt more watching Clarksons farm than anyone farming related show including countryfile.
Geday Jezza, I am so glad you made this series and THIS episode because I am hoping it will educate all those who think we have it so easy and so on.
I also see that you have discovered that it's a life thats pretty hard to beat, theres not a lot of money in it but it's a way of life, the seasons, each year is different and markets change along with the secondary industries that we rely upon for our income but nothing beats the satisfaction at the end of sowing a crop of what ever and all the perfectly straight furrows (and I'm not talking about GPS steering on your tractor, I've never used it). We are in an age where it's what we know and love but cannot survive unless we're some big corporation.
Thanks for your show mate.
This is such a good show, I watched the whole series in a week. I hope season 2 arrives soon. Gerald, Head of Security is just brilliant.
Please continue with the farm and as many farmers have to do supliment your income by doing some grand tour adventures, Kaleb would love to look after your farm when your gone.
Bloody love this programme. All of it. Nothing has highlighted farmings eternal struggles like Jeremy has. As a livestock farmer I'm so grateful. Yeah there's telly comedy and entertainment in it but it runs true to farming life. I wish my dad could have seen it.
Clarkson, authentically.. helping society with a message. how amazing. loved this show. keep farming
Gotta hand it to Clarkson, he's lead a bloody good life!
I actually got shivvers from this. Clarkson. You are changing the world n showing everyone the true side of it
Brilliant show, cannot wait for the next season to air !! Well done Jezza, Kaleb and Co....excellent telly !!
What will the world be without our beloved Jezza…. absolute legend ❤️
I spent most of my adult life in agriculture working in a fertilizer and chemical dealership, from sweeping the floors to the manager. Also consulting and finally with 17 years selling JD equipment. Kind of strange for a city boy who grew up around Washington DC - and I'd do it all over again. It's honest work, you'll never be rich, but you'll look back on it as fulfilling.
This show, is perfect, it's what Jeremy was destined to do and it will leave a lasting impact on farming in the UK.
Jeremy, this was all worth it, you are making a difference in the lives of those who feed the world.
In the immortal words of every farmer "it will be better next year"
This literally felt like watching the old Top Gear, something about the content and editing just pulled you in, either it's something funny, or something that magically felt outright romantic on top of the comedies...how fascinating.
This series really opened my eyes on what farmers go through.
The thing about farming is if it's really your thing it brings you a sense of joy and happiness nothing else can match.
He’s a lot more wholesome than he lets on.
Excited for season two.
1:05 - 2:56 That is and always will be the reason why the shows with Jeremy, James and Richard are so much better, besides all the nonsense the emotion they can deliver in the end is really special!
I love this show. Jeremy has to be the most watchable person in the world.
Farming really is a way of life. It isn't always easy or even safe, but it's living.