There’s a BBC TV series called: CLARKSON’S FARM – currently available on Amazon Prime – that has Jeremy Clarkson (of TOP GEAR fame) deciding to manage running a thousand acre farm in the Cotswolds he owned when his farm manager retired. As far as I’m concerned it should have been named: FARMING 101, and the watching should be mandatory for everyone, but most certainly lawmakers. For years I’ve heard about farmers complaining about this or that, but it’s never hit home until I watched this series. The thousand and one little things that serve to make farming risky and difficult are presented, and although it’s in Britain, the same holds true here (and perhaps, everywhere). The contemporary technologies available and utilised by advanced farmers are nothing short of fascinating – at least to this city boy. Uncontrollable things like the miserable weather, and similarly uncontrollable things like complaints from the local council (busybodies), to the alphabetic lists of governmental agencies that insist upon perfection in their mandatory checklists – these all exist to make farming nearly impossible to perform profitably, and particularly during COVID lockdown. The cameras were on Jeremy and his crew as he learned the hard lessons of 2020s farming.
And it’s been years since I laughed so hard my sides hurt.
There’s a BBC TV series called: CLARKSON’S FARM – currently available on Amazon Prime – that has Jeremy Clarkson (of TOP GEAR fame) deciding to manage running a thousand acre farm in the Cotswolds he owned when his farm manager retired. As far as I’m concerned it should have been named: FARMING 101, and the watching should be mandatory for everyone, but most certainly lawmakers. For years I’ve heard about farmers complaining about this or that, but it’s never hit home until I watched this series. The thousand and one little things that serve to make farming risky and difficult are presented, and although it’s in Britain, the same holds true here (and perhaps, everywhere). The contemporary technologies available and utilised by advanced farmers are nothing short of fascinating – at least to this city boy. Uncontrollable things like the miserable weather, and similarly uncontrollable things like complaints from the local council (busybodies), to the alphabetic lists of governmental agencies that insist upon perfection in their mandatory checklists – these all exist to make farming nearly impossible to perform profitably, and particularly during COVID lockdown. The cameras were on Jeremy and his crew as he learned the hard lessons of 2020s farming.
And it’s been years since I laughed so hard my sides hurt.
You gotta see it.
It’s a game changer.