Jeremy Clarkson uses his platform to champion British farmers - British Farming Awards 2021  

Or "Townie-file"

@g8ymw Yep. I think it's the best thing he's done. Ok maybe the 10k supercar challenge episode on TG but that was just entertainment. This series hopefully has woken people up to the huge problems farming has had recently, especially the last two years. Rain on Sunday btw!

Well said

@g8ymw Country file has never been an accurate representation of British farming.

BenJervis62 He showed people how difficult farming is with regards to maintaining and planting crops as well raising livestock. He also showed how financially hard farming can be if you actually watch the final episode of the series. That and he showed the stupid amout of government bureaucracy you have to deal with folks such as DEFRA.

I've yet to meet anyone from government who was impressive. But I have been extremely impressed with Clarkson and company on the farm.

@Vivienne March they're not. and it's the people in the background who end up having to fix the mess and actually try to get things done. the civil servants and uniformed day staff etc. not the ones on tv and in the news.

That is an organisation that needs completely restructuring. Politicians should be experts from the field they represent, not "career" politicians with no real world experience and no clue. All parties are a shambles.

@IXI Futureproof sadly that's not how it works. the real talent gets really occasional financial rewards. nothing remotely close to the absurd money mp's make. and what's more, they're not very well incentivised to stick around because of contractors being brought in to inevitably replace them or automate their whole jobs out of existence. if government spent less on contractors (i.e. lining the pockets of their family and friends on the boards of such companies!) and more on keeping their existing talent, they'd get so much more done, staff would benefit so much more, and government would save money hand over fist. but that's just my expert opinion. what the hell would i know about any of it.

Clarkson made an extremely good point when he said that if the grants stop being given to farmers, the Government should not interfere.

I'm ashamed to admit that 30 years ago I was irked by the guy. I grew up. He's a national treasure and I also have so much respect for him.

Or is he covering a brand on it?

@Martin.Brady.RallyCoDriver or he is absolutely blootered

@Sgt Snugggles more like what I was thinking 😂😂

Think it was because he was tanked 😂😂

i was actually thinking maybe he is kinda ashamed that he got an award for farming when there are so many more deserving, like Kaleb, let him show off his award and let me hide mine... but ofc i maybe wrong xD

Ever thought that it was because…..he knows what he’s doing and he’s the one doing the work ?

@Mike Hutchison Have you ever thought that Kaleb was hired by Jeremy because Clarkson interviewed a lot of people, and decided to hire someone that he both: got along with, and in some way admired, professionally?

fr, if Jeremy ever said that to me i think i would be in tears

@Mike Hutchison Ever thought that Jeremy himself knows that as he mentioned multiple times in this very video?

I'm not crying, you're crying!

@Mike Hutchison man you prob work 9 to 5 and googled farm stats

@Mike Hutchison Just to clarify a little about you blaming me for "You have been subsidised by the public since 1947" - I wasn't even born then! When you say "our rivers" - which ones exactly are yours, could post a list please? I don't care that much, but would be interesting to know more about you.

YOU are the carbon they want to reduce.

Agreed I'll listen to or watch anything clarkson does really. The man has his flaws like everyone else but he's an absolute treasure. Hope he comes up with a podcast or something. (becasue that's really cheap to do and means endless hours of clarkson for everyone)

It really feels like Jeremy has taken Kaleb under his wing now that the kid’s suddenly become a bit of a celebrity.

5 series show? I look forward for the next 30 series show.

Totally! Now when I drive past a tractor in a field me and my missus both say “cultivating”

@stevenpaddybwoy I always give them way so they don’t loose too much time waiting for someone to let them go.

All we need now is east European hands to bag it and pop it on the shelf.

yah the guy was always a bit of a twat. but his love of food has turned into something a bit more.

@Jordan no mate i thought he was 'a bit of a twat'. that's not the same as being 'a twat'. i suspect you don't understand the difference. i would love to see your definition of both. just to see the way you interpreted my use. also label's narrow the mind? really! now presumption and pre conclusion. they are truly mind closing. but a label is just that, a point of reference. car is a label but without defining more. its just a LGV focused on people transportation. the word is just used so you don't, for instance, try coming by bus. this is mind narrowing? only if your presuming. :)

You may have missed it. In the early days when they added Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson was the one that insisted on adding May. They wouldn't, so he left the show. He WANTED to be the heel, and he wanted to be able to play the insufferable lout against Hammond and May. He didn't want to play the comedian roll, or the equipment nerd, he wanted to play the lout that everybody would hate, sort of. On his show, he's still doing the same roll, I mean... the Lamborghini tractor and the barn door is that roll, but he's also a bit more real at times. Wish him well.

yip, he shows what you will be missing in 3 years time.... and after your government cant provide you with food, because the ships from Australia stuck in the Suez Canal again!

Yeah. He has shown how hard it is and how little anyone in big towns realises what has to be put in to get crops and livestock on their plates. Harry Meaden also does a good show - Harry's Farm.

I dunno about the best thing that's happened to farming, Farming Simulator 2022 is looking pretty sweet. :)

I applaud JC for his magnificent work in highlighting the critical issues surrounding farming & the countryside to us city troglodytes. And it’s ridiculous that farmers should be held at the mercy of govt bureaucrats who prob know as much about the countryside as me. It’s also grossly unfair that farmers should remain at bottom of the pile when it comes to reaping the financial rewards for the work put in to produce food. Think farmers, through the BFA, need to start collectively working their way up the value chain instead of letting the supermarket brands monopolise the retailing space.

@john lim he voted out the EU & thats killing our farmers

He's a bit like Boris, in the sense that he's not quite the blithering, bumbling idiot that he's made out to be...There's a sharp, analytical mind in there.

Good shout out for Harry, another great guy.

Harrys Farm is brilliant too and i suspect was the Terry Pratchett to JKR Harry Potter with Clarkson Farm. There is so much damage to reverse due to centralisation and regulations imposed to benefit mega corps.

Give it 20 years and farms will be obsolete. Food will be made in factories using factory grown ingredients and probably factory grown animals.

@Reece The thing is farming as it is for the population we have is not sustainable it's just not we do need to change farming some of it is letting farmers react better to the conditions where they are instead of having some stupid blanket policy for all farms. Yet equally is fundamental changing how we farm. Skyscraper farms is the future for certain crops, Low water, low fertilizer, low chemical farming, wilding like we see on the program is the only way forward. We need to support farmer but and I hate to say it. We also need to push these stubborn stick in the mud who go "It's been done this way for 10 generation i'm not changing it one little bit" out of the way because things have changed and some of the old way can no longer work. Over here in the state our aquifers are going dry from farming It took in some cases it's thought to of taken hundred of thousands of years for them to fill and we have pumped them dry in spots in a few centuries.

YOU are the carbon they want to reduce.

Real talk for a second. "Im so great" thing is a "presenter persona" of Jeremy. Yes he might have confidence to believe in himself. But in many interviews he has done. He is very down to earth. Plus he most likely knew how much good he can do with his speech at such events and help all of the UK farmers. So very smartly he decided to be serious about it :)

clarckson was impressed from the 1st interview he did with caleb, after listing all his endeavors, jeeza asked how old are you, im 21. jeeza was smitten, finally!

Soory

You know what? You are a bloody good lad!

You're very lucky. Me and my Dad don't speak. I'd love for him to say that about me but he's not a good man. Cherish your old man

yeah you may want to go back and watch some of trips even on the Grand Tour and Top Gear, yeah it was mostly about cars but every now and then he would expose things that wasn't supposed to be seen and made us all think differently... hes actually a very down to earth person and actually cares about things and not the rich idiot everyone tells you that he is.. hes been doing it for yrs and that is the main reason why the BBC will never allow him to host another show or documentary or interview where he has an opinion..

Did you just call Jeremy "merely very entertaining"? 🤔🤔

Sounds like you might be new to Jeremy's serious side. I implore you to seek out three things which will give you a new appreciation for him. "The Greatest Raid of all" , "The Victoria Cross: For Valour" and "Great Britons: Isambard Kingdom Brunel". These are subjects he has huge passion for and it really shines through in the documentaries. Jezza may have cultivated a persona of being this big brash oaf, but you'll see the man behind the brand after watching these. He's a lot smarter and a great deal more empathetic than Top Gear or Grand Tour showed you.

@Paul Gamble Very true. Those documentaries he did were very high quality and excellently presented.

@dunhillsupramk3 that is the main part of it, i think they in the topgear / grand tour has always tried to put focus on something horrid, like the water starvation in the Grand tour episode in Vietnam, and going through talking about Polpot, but they have actually tried to show also the beauty of these places, the only place which i felt actually hit them hard, was what they did in Argentina, i do not really thing that they thought that they would be hunted like that, and that the episode ended in being fleeing the country. However i do agree that Clarksons Farm is an extremely good show, but it is lifted by the staff around him, usually he needs Hammond and May, but it just works with the staff he has on the farm.

Mike . This is a somewhat polarised view. I have several farmer friends and this does not represent their experience!

By moving to Poland? At least there are plenty of farm workers in Poland...

He has not been "gifted" with that ability. He has worked extremely hard over a number of decades to "earn" that ability.

Heard he likes new Zealand lamb.😁😁😁😁

@Terry Finnie I think he will come around to organic farming. Big smiles!

@Michael Scofield Is that all you can come up with? People with common sense throw the race card back at the person that threw it first.

Me too , they are insufferably dull and stupid

@Michael Scofield And?

Yeah,must be really hard watching cows eat grass ! Didn’t our children do much the same,when they kept pet rabbits…..feeding,watering,cleaning out ? Really hard !

He's super humble, really. Top lad.

Yes, a thoroughly true racist.

@Terry Finnie Terry, a thorughly true salty bitter helmet

@Terry Finnie evidence?

Looking back over my lifetime of work I just crease up when people say a pat on the back is worth more than money. I'm guessing this is a millennial concept brought about by that generation's requirement to be loved, appreciated and congratulated at every possible moment. Try buying a loaf of bread with a pat on the back, and see how that goes!

@Old Geordie Geezer not at all. I have no feelings of intolerance and I completely understand what you said, I just retorted. My comment was in no way about safe spaces or Molly coddling. It was about the bond created when a young man earns the respect of an older, more accomplished man, or even his role model…through hard work and admirable qualities. You took my point of how it feels to ACHIEVE respect and credit from a mentor/role model and warped it into something you could start to vent your frustrations about the “everyone gets a medal, credit for taking part” culture that is prevalent in modern society. I share your sentiments completely about the weak, woke culture of today…but I thought it poor that you felt the need to infer the things you did from something nice and something that is clearly lacking in today’s society. Hard work, pride in your work, role models, and competence. Congratulations on your success and knowing your worth, I’m sure your an accomplished and decent person. Since you are trying to infer characteristics from what I have said, I will tell you I am no different, in a highly accomplished professional job, I am a husband and father raising a family, having overcome true adversity, I am anti-safe-space etc, self motivated and largely opposed to the softness and obsession with feelings purported in society today. BUT I know when I was a teenager, I valued the day my work was acknowledged and praised by someone I considered a master of their craft, far more than a few extra quid at Christmas (which is what my original comment was about) It’s not the need for a pat on the head, or lacking self worth, it’s developing pride in what you do and enjoying the rewards that come with it. Also I’m not hiding behind a keyboard. I said nothing I wouldn’t feel more than comfortable saying to your face. It just happens that this is the medium in which the conversation occurred. I think if you deem my response as “abusive”…you sound like the exact kind of person you are complaining about. Maybe dumb could be considered an insult (not exactly a particularly nasty one) but ignorant is certainly not abuse. I gave my reasons for why I thought your reply was ignorant. Has nothing to do with tolerance or understanding. Further terms often used within victimhood mentality. And have nothing to do with my response to you.

@Old Geordie Geezer You're anonymous, son. Comment also indicates a fatherless household. Sad.

Food. It's cost and availability is taken for granted.

@Mike Hutchison Again. They are landowners not Farmers. There is a World of difference. Farmers themselves don't want subsidies of any description. The only reason that Farming receives subsidies is so that the public can have cheap food. If the subsidies were not there, food costs would be sky high. This is not unique to the UK but in one way, shape or form is the same everywhere. But not necessarily worded, "subsidies". This has made Farmers into, Hoop jumpers, box tickers. The landowners you mention are not family run Farms and by no means represent them. Your average Farmer will be working for less than the minimum wage for the hours worked. The investment on any Farm is massive and every penny will be reinvested into machinery, animals, buildings, fertiliser, seed, crop chemicals, maintenance, contractors, labour, vets Bill's, and countless other bills I haven't mentioned. The subsidies that you mention would probably pay the fertiliser bill, and that's it! A lot of people think that Farmers get the subsidy payment and book a holiday in the Bahamas? This is definitely not the case. Are you connected with Agriculture?

I was born & raised in Sydney, it sickens me how the sheep farmer in Merriwa has no train line to their town anymore; meanwhile the welfare-sponge in Western Sydney gets a metro train underneath their existing train line just because they want their kids to come home from school sooner. City-centric politics has ruined Australia's rural towns. I'm so glad I changed my career years ago & got to travel around NSW for work, opened my eyes to the reality of farmers & what they endure.

@Mr Bill Hilly Bill, I concur with your sentiment 100%♡