Jeremy Clarkson tells Farmers Weekly farming ‘harder than I thought’ 

It shows how genuine they were and are. They weren't characters created for the show, it was them and I love how Gerald was the inspiration for the show. I laughed when Kaleb was scared about going to London. After it I realised he was completely right. After seeing this show, it makes you wonder why anyone would drive into London or take farming. The pencil pushers have ruined both.

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the kid has a bright future......

He's awesome 😁

Kaleb star of the show for me. Love his local yokel accent and logic ... proper down to earth lad.

Respect to every farmer ❤

He said that on the last episode of the show and acknowledged that he has financial backing to fall back on whereas in general, farmers don't. He was very gracious and honest. Massive respect to him for that small gesture because it meant a lot.

Exactly. I mean I can think of this as Jeremy introducing a lot more people to what actually goes on in contemporary farming, because people want to see Jeremy, myself included. To that end, I have learned a lot about the actual process from seeing him muck it all up, and I have a newfound massive respect for people in the agricultural sector, in England or otherwise.

@@alistairwalker2850 Farming really isn't that different between contential Europe, UK, US, AUS, and NZ.

@@alistairwalker2850 I agree with you there. Truly opened my eyes.

@@lazyeejay I mean, it's kind of obvious that Jeff Bezos pretty much gives him a blank check. I wouldn't be surprised if he's wholly funding this show. Jeremy talks about only netting 100 pounds in return on his investments, but really he was okay thanks to Amazon. That's a testament to being able to blow 200K and still land on your feet.

It's funny... Your English is better than most native English speakers

Thank you! To be honest, Uncle Google helped me a bit ;-)

I didn't know Google translate started having sex with Chat GPT and decided to get married. That was awesome piece of work, sounded original, almost like a human wrote it.

Pseudo-ecologists?

@@timothydraper3687 probably similar to an armchair general, or back-seat driver. Someone who thinks they know more than they do. Unfortunately, twitter and reddit has created a lot of people like that.

I'm glad a show like this happened. There's a new found respect for farmers in so many people after they watched this show. My paternal grandfather was a farmer so I did have an idea of how difficult it can be but now with this show, it's reached such a broad audience.

You keep up the good work my friend, your country needs you and the next generation of young farmers.

My husband is a farmer and we both love watching it!

@@akash2853 this is actually so true! I always had respect for farmers, fishermen etc but watching this made me realise how complicated, weather depended farming could be. Learning about tramline was quite interesting as well! This show is really an eye opener for people like me who knows nothing about farming.

@@akash2853 aa

Same, I live in Oxfordshire and recall seeing a combine out in a field last summer at 12:30am on the way home from my girlfriends and I just assumed they had a really boring work ethic, I remember saying “go home!” to myself But now I know it was down to a whole range of conditions and time constraints, so interesting to learn about the intricacies

@@5uper5kill3rz you saw someone working at 12:30am and your first instinct was to assume a boring work ethic?! I'm not following... like at all. What even is a boring a work ethic?

@@dennis141288 there’s probably a cultural difference if you’re not from the UK/northwestern Europe. Here, work is often seen an unfortunate ‘necessary’ which must fill a few hours of your day in order to support your ‘actual life’. The idea of a boring work ethic is probably just referring to the fact that, fromthis point of view, if you’re working so late into the night then you have ‘no life’. Something like that I guess

@@dennis141288 like they love working so much that they’re spending their entire night doing it instead of going home at 5/6pm

check out Harry's farm - same thing but harry's been doing it longer - cars and farms - on here....

Maybe just the promoting part, the whole interview is about how he cant farm properly.

@@amiriskandarani3608 that's a one way to look at it

I am a German Farmer and i Love to see how they manage in that funny way how they do what they do 👍😄

In all honesty, Clarkson is the best thing to happen to farming. Who would have thought that an audience of motoring enthusiasts who couldn’t give a fuck about ‘climate change’ would watch and be interested in a farming show.

@@chichotwojay740 He's a learning apprentice, he's not exactly a god send to farming, he's a god send to tv thou.

uk is shitty place for farming

I would assume the weasther wouldnt help. and the hundreads of years of industrial polution.

@@steiner554 Stateside too. We've got to reevaluate it all from the ground up... Community gardens and such... And work less (since automation is what it is) so we have more time for home gardening. It's tooooo industrialized.

@@CleverGirlAAH Stateside and in Australia are massive corporate food factories and animal concentration camps.

Difficult my ass. Easy money

If you think tg/tgt was nothing more than a middle aged dope making a fool of himself for cheap laughs, I think you missed the mark on what made these shows special.

Spot on with this! I didn’t always like Jeremy or agreed with his views but this was amazing. It shows the real race against time and nature.

@@stutter4064 I grew up with Top Gear, as a kid it used to be the show that ended my weekend before heading off to bed before starting school the next day. I loved the show and trio that presented it. It was more of a tongue-in-cheek reflection of Jeremy as a person. All three of them are amazing characters, and I expected this show to follow that formula - as in: "don't take this too seriously, we're just having a bit of fun". Top Gear stopped being really informative many years back, long before the trio left for TGT, it was an entertainmnt show and it was truly entertaining with some great emotion at times, especially on the TG Specials. However this farm show really opened us to more of Jeremy's character, beyond just the silly jokes to a person who really cared about what he was doing and at the same time was able to show the general public a glimpse of what being a farmer is actually like for real people.

Top Gear and Grand tour were definitely not cheap. There was alot of work going into making it look silly. And a lot of bravery and will to suffer in the long trips.

Totally agree.

Definitely. I really hope he gets to show people what farming is really like. People are so detached from it.

the series highlights for every person trying to make living there are three trying to justify their existence .... living off their backs this type of parasite inventing rules and regulations and pettiness which appears to be so prevalent in the UK.. unfortunately,

Marxists like our lib-lab-con dictatorship are rules obsessed. The more rules the more control and money you can leech.

Id agree with that. Loved the show and have a new found appreciation for the work involved. The amount of administration and red tape you guys have to deal with is absurd though, most of it just smacks of middle men feeding off someone elses hard work.

that the thing he IS good at.

I had a similar idea, but I have liked all of Jeremey's other endeavors so I gave it whirl and can't wait for season 2. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8VFxD8nkwCc.html

At one point in Clarkson's Farm TV show on Amazon Prime, he opens a shop. What surprises and puzzles me is how many people show up to buy things. Is Britain really that fucked up, that you are all so desperate to get some fresh food? You can't just go to Tescos or whatever it is and get what you want? I mean....sure, it may be nice food, but the shots showed something like 200 cars trying to get into a shop the size of a one car garage, and all get stuck in the mud parking lot. Are people really THAT desperate in Britain? No, it is not credible that 200 cars appeared at the shop just to get on TV. Unless......are people in Britain seriously that bored, that starved for stimulation? Is it that dull, really? Could someone from Britain please explain this to me? Another scene, Clarkson goes to buy ingredients for ONE MEAL, "a ploughman's" from a shop, and it cost him over 80 pounds....I think that is about 120 American....is that normal? Seems insane. The stereotype is all British food is horrible.....is it BOTH horrible AND expensive? Why would you stay in such a shit hole, if this is true? Don't respond with "Oh it is also bad in other places", EXPLAIN IN DETAIL. If number one, things a really are that awful and really are that expensive, then, number two: Why Do You Stay In Britain? A friend went to Ireland when we were both twenty years old. He came back and I asked him what it was like. He said: "they do literally NOTHING......no skateboarding, no darts, no pool, no video games, no card playing, no joke telling, no dancing, no parties, no movies, nothing. No matter what age, from 14 to 80, all they do EVERY SINGLE NIGHT is sit in a pub, they never stand or talk or do anything, they never sing or dance, just sit and get drunk with a glum sullen silence. EVERY SINGLE NIGHT.~ Drunk. This was around 1989 in a major irish city. Around 1985 a cousin went to Britain, came back. What was it like I asked. She said only one thing: "Everything there costs five to ten times more than it costs here. Don't ever go." Which British Prince said, England would be fine if we could just get rid of all the dirty wogs. How is Clarkson so rich, and since he is very ugly, very old and a complete ASSHOLE personality, how does he have a lovely girlfriend, is she just leeching off his money? Is Clarkson just the Donald Trump of Britain?

@@noneone8726 Lots of people turned up cos Clarkson has a HUGE social media presence and people wanted their 5 minutes of fame.

@@noneone8726 for one you’ve never actually been to Britain and for two, half your ideas are based on second-hand experience from over 30 years ago

@@oldcrow9704 how??

​@@bigsteve6729you get a couple of meals from one cow, the corn could be made in to plant based meals and feed 100s

@@oldcrow9704 farming has been around in this country for hundreds of years, sustainable means that something maintains itself, farming is the definition of sustainable.

As an American in Colorado, I can say corn is definitely bad for cattle, it routinely makes literal holes in their stomachs. But corn is heavily subsidized (in the name of Cold War food strategy). I mean, you'd think letting them eat whatever grass happens to be on the ground would be as cheap as it gets, but no. And Soviets are gone, so WTF?!?

@@oldcrow9704 Yeah, but just think how many cows you could have if the field wasn't full of fucking corns. You could have enough cows to feed hundreds.

We're seeing it now in tech with the chip shortage, due to dependence on China. Imagine if it had been a prolonged food shortage.

@@rwdplz1 just wait till pakistan and inda go at it

I'm not sure China is really a food exporter (although I could be wrong). I'm Australian, and as far as I understand, they actually import a heck of a lot of food from us. Makes you wonder why they're being so rude to us at the moment...

But with this climate bullshit we are killing our farmers

@@mikkejalonen9050 I agree. I often wonder how my Grandparents would of handled it on their small dairy farm.

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Graveyard for money

Thats my saying

is possible to become a millionaire in avia business? yes, if you are a billionaire

Switch to farming caviar

May the Almighty bless you. Keep up the excellent work.

You are the backbone of our country. Thank you from all of us.

Thank you for feeding the people.

Couldn’t agree more. We make so many sacrifices and exhaust ourselves for little reward but it’s a lifestyle that gives back so much more than money.

But what is he saying?

@@jdlc903 lol. Jeremy would just say "Yep" lol

@@jdlc903 Just keep listening….one day it will be totally understandable, and you will wonder how it happened! Gerald is a treasure!

@@patpierce4854 lol,I'm sure he is a treasure and a good guy.just completely incomprehensible

That's very cool. Such a fun character he is. Also, we share the same name lol

Had a laugh every time Gerald showed up and started talking :)

@@petripuoli-honka764 Gerald is a f@@@@@@ legend!,

You mean Claas acts 😁

Was funny the way Jeremy just responded with "Yeah", like he understood every word lol

Everytime gerald speak jeremy look so confused we all are still didn't understand shit but it's funny

hello Peter, how are you doing. I hope you are safe and in good health. Looking for a new friend and i saw your pic here. I hope you don't mind thank you.

Nah, sorry ... it’s very good, don’t get me wrong. And it is better and more worthwhile than the GT in terms of education. But in terms of entertainment? It’s not close, in my opinion.

@@fifthbusiness1678I think which one is better entertainment wise is purely subjective, they’re both really good

and why are the supermarkets cheaper?

That will be like 2023

@@Owen_157 A real shame because this was right up my street

Me too, I really hope Amazon renew it for a second series because it was a brilliant show.

@@simplifygardening 2022

@@jaxonturner3590 I think they will but remember the filming for the show took place in 2019 and 2020 it will take a while for another season

and a mod for the Lamborghini tractor...

@@rjwinterqwerty There's a version of the tractor a model down from Jeremy's, but visually identical. Daggerwin's currently using it on his Rusty Acres playthrough.

Yes!

Guarantee that'll happen, i wouldnt worry lol

I second using a Lamborghini tractor if modders make Clarkson's farm. However, I mainly use Valtra, Fendt and Deutz-Fahr tractors in my games.

Yes, watched it twice already and I can't wait for season 2 and the potential profit as Jeremy has a bit more of a clue of what he is doing!

I don't think he needs to make a profit, he'll just get taxed more :D

I thought it was quite impressive that he didn't make a loss in such a tough year and his first year as a farmer

@@stevec6427 it's all thanks to cheerful charlie

Have they announced a second season?

Yes, there was growth there. He went in as the typical TV Clarkson we all know and came out a different person. He was genuinely upset at having to kill those first lambs. We'll never know but I did wonder how the farm would have done, if there hadn't been those two bad weather spells, or Covid.

Same

Clarkson has always cared about what he does. I was really surprised when I met him at a car meet and he was getting excited about seeing cars like Peuget 205 GTi's, old Alfa Romeo's, Ford Escorts and my Jag which I bought based on his Top Gear review of it.

@@stevec6427 Well that's the thing many don't realise. The person we see on TV is a character of sorts, it isn't the real Clarkson that goes through everyday life off-screen. In his farm show we saw the character we know, morph into that off-screen real person. :-)

Yeah I get the impression although he has driven cars for 30 odd years, he's actually more settled and more at home doing this.

He'd be a lot healthier if he stopped eating animals and consuming their udder juice...

He seemed healthier at the end than he did in the beginning of the series less huffing and puffing. It looked like he was going to pass out driving the fence posts!

@@Mikesukes those fence posts are bloody hard work lmao

@@nealwailing3870 OK PETA

He was a heavy smoker...I don't expect him to past 70 sadly

Yeah im 19 and I 100 precent agree I be honest I used to never give a shit about the uk farmers but after the absolute bullshit I saw Jeremy go through makes my heart go out to them considering they will have no where near the funding he has and I imagine come into even worse issues he had a lot of expert help too

Farming = work your arse off for little pay, not much social life and zero thanks

i think there is zero chance of them doing it. career in software 100k farming 100 pound after non stop work for a year

@Ben Daulton yeah I think the same thing happens here (uk) where the government steps in but that’s going away apparently

I think we all feel that...how do they survive!

@@fastasfox There's a whole ton of farming channels out there that get right down into things... it's both an enjoyable life, but can be extremely stressful.

They love Brexit 🥸

Same, it also brought the idea of a countryside setting being the best place to retire 🤣🤣

Or he might call it "Barley Juice".

Watch The Greatest raid of all..(operation chariot) it will five you goosebumps.

👍👍👍👍

Good for you

@@fastasfox good for you

Thanks god they knew lots, it's what allowed them to shine - because they knew what they were doing that it became second nature and their humour came to the forefront of the show.

GO FOR IT JEZA BUT DONT LET THE BBC NEAR IT !!!!

You get american top gear

@@zeusapollo8688 Yes and it was so hard to watch. Should have been canceled after the first season.

Chris Harris knows cars better than the old 3 put together though. From a race perspective at least!

@Pheeb Hello good luck with that. Neighbouring farm 197 acres sold for $3.9 million. House a teardown, 2 decent drive sheds, 130 ac workable, hills, no tile, crop won't cover interest.

Until my generation (I'm 50+) bar 1 cousin who still has a 4th gen dairy farm in Somerset, my family consisted of farm labourers, managers, and tenant. None of this generation of kids are going in to it.

That wasn’t a Topgear dig at all. Especially when you consider the fact that Chris Harris is one of the best motoring journalists and a semi professional racing driver

@@mk2nathan Season 23. Eventually, Rory and LeBlanc became lovable characters, but without Chris, the whole show would've amounted to nothing. And the two chaps that host it now in addition to Harris also don't add much, to be honest.

@@sid.h Wrong. The latest format is what made the Clarkson/Hammond/May years so successful - three blokes who clearly get on naturally well and are entertaining. There was no chemistry in the previous format whatsoever. Le Blanc was a wooden disaster.

Na. Not a dig. The opposite, he was referring to himself and his lack of knowledge and expertise and therefore why he needed people around him, who did know what they were doing. Having said that, Paddy McGuinness does know next to f**k nothing about cars. He is just presenting a show, and it happens to be about cars.

Completely agree.

yep really is backbreaking

And they earn fuck all, pretty messed up to be honest, deserve more money for the effort and time.

Long time TG and the grand tour fan here but Actaully prefer Clarksons The Farm.. Loved every second...

James May is a sourpuss

I was thinking the same thing but with respect to Countryfile.

@@danielearley5062 I can’t watch Countryfile. I’m afraid John Craven has passed his sell by date. Tom Heap bores for England. Anita Rani is just one of those professional presenters. Adam Henson is a multimillionaire gentleman farmer

What

Oddly enough, I've met a fair few Guardian readers who enjoyed the series. I'd say I'm of a slightly centre-left persuasion but I find it can be a bit sanctimonious and holier-than-thou.

@@tgmartin The Guardian or Clarkson's Farm?

@@smokeybarr The Guardian. Obviously I think there are good articles as they're one of the few British papers that actually hold this current government to account but I find some of their columns, etc. to be a bit preachy, full of themselves and out of touch.

But he wants to stay on the farm...😢

@Hello Robert how are you doing

In the age of Capitalism Market, massive industrialization and farming technique advancements, farming is an utterly different concept from the one conducted within Natural Economy system.

I'd watch that

If any of the Amazon wigs are watching this, hire Patrick as your new ideas man. I would watch Kaleb travel the world!

Better yet get karl on the farm!

That would be sick, Kaleb is so naive to the city life and he's a funny lad

Amazon lets Clarkson do whatever show he wants and he wants to do farming.

or we can import it economically from brazil, asia and america. and farming will have to move on

@@dantae666 /woosh

@@Whoami691 no woosh. we simply dont need to subsidize farming its bad for the tax payer. if its not profitable get rid of it

@@dantae666 what a great idea! And when the crop fails in Brazil and Egypt we're all screwed! Yay! What about, I dunno, a global catastrophy or, say, pandemic that severely hampers trade.... Oh goody! Now thanks to you we all suffer! So SMORT!

@@dantae666self sufficiency is necessary

How can anyone like them?

@@helloukw I guess bureaucracy done well is really brilliant, it's just that an awful lot of the time, it isn't done well.

The iron rule of bureaucracy strikes again. “Those who expand the bureaucracy will always end up at the top and above those that try to solve the problem the bureau was created to fix”

The smart hate bureaucracy, as it was invented to keep the stupid in check.

@Hello Mark how are you doing

@@lydiacapps709 Very well. Hope you are too

wholesome

Holesome cos they dug lots of holes? I see what you did there

@@Chazie_ It is WHOLESOME totally irrelevant to holes in the ground....

hello Steve, how are you doing. I hope you are safe and in good health. Looking for a new friend and i saw your pic here. I hope you don't mind thank you.

I think it's daft that we try and be "food sustainable". That was the whole point of the bloody Empire, that the resources of the Isles were insufficient. We of course should support our own farmers, particularly for our own "cultural produce", but if we know a country is well run, democratic, not abusing it's workers or animals, and has extensive historical ties with ours and speaks the same bloody language, of course we should import food and other materials from there. It's common bloody sense. To do otherwise is to increase the world's economic dependence on the CCP.

I have read that it's also due to the scale. The lamb farms in New Zealand are so much larger than those in the UK that the economy of scale means they can produce it at such a low cost that even once you factor in the cost of transportation, it can still be cheaper than local produce. I've also heard that it can be better for the environment (even factoring in transportation of the meat) partly due to scale and partly because of things like the land being better suited to raising lamb (e.g. less fertiliser needed to grow food for the lambs to eat) which is quite surprising.

@@vink6163 your right.

I hope it causes some of the red tape to be re-examined and removed

I agree.

@@SwitchTvAr 144 :)

@@Carefreeblues The wool of the sheep made the difference.

and why not