Hey Charlie, hope you are keeping well!

But he probably isn't cheap (not that he should be, he is very competent and worth every penny), Clarkson can afford it but i doubt small farmers can

I wanted to say the exact same thing. I couldn't agree more mate. It's the same here in The Netherlands.

‘Real’ farmers in Europe are mainly huge agro. The couple of pigs Clarkson has are quite and all. Most pig farms here have an average of 5000 pigs. There are 134 MILLION pigs in Europe (almost twice as many as in the US) 95 million cows. Clarkson runs a very quite eco farm with different crops, a small farm shop and his friends. But it has nothing to do with the real big business that is European farmers. A group of people that received a TRILLION euro in subsidies in the past 30 years

@@MrJimheeren 'huge agro' is very susceptible to market, corporate and government interests though. The farm shop in Clarkson's farm and other farms avenue coupled with big agro arable is not a bad business model.

Ah yes, the largest group of millionaires in Europe. The farmer, they surely need help from fellow miljonair Jeremy Clarkson.

​@@MrJimheeren what delusional world do you live in, I'd love to swing by.

Had to google sisyphean...!🤔

One of my favourite Greek myths ;)

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I guess he is half way there already by not plowing and his drill method. Just haven't seen them do cover crops. In their case, it would increase their operational costs hugely in terms of seed and pesticides. I think the real solution for him is organic, to drastically cut down their operational costs. But it requires far more skill than they possess, and it would likely turn the farming community against them, as conventional farmers appear to hate organic farmers.

@@fermewilmotsagriculturebio3434 but can you imagine what it will do for farming ? NPK farming is dying. They would only need to invite someone like Gabe Brown out and I can tell you, a lot more people will get into farming when they realise what can be possible.

@cedriccbass-jp8ky I take all that with a grain of salt. There are plenty of farmer/prophets making most of their income through consultancy, courses, and appearances instead of farming. While if you look at studies comparing forms of agriculture you see that as long as you work with cover crops the effects on soil regen are basically the same, the rare studies that also look at Nox emissions even show that no till regen makes your soil emit more NOX through asphyxia. Which is hundreds of times worse for the environment than Carbon. I don't know enough about that farmer/ consultant in particular, but there are charlatans out there, and also ones that have a more hybrid and less doctrinal approach. The guy they had on this season with the mixed crop probably falls in the idealist category, who sticks too close to a doctrine.

Have you ever tried milking a goat, they're a lot more difficult than cows.

@@TheByard I haven't but I will take your word for it.

We should eat more goat meat too. I think it’s delicious, especially in a Gurkha curry, but quite hard to come by.

Supermarkets are run by traitors

Turn it up then.

Being filmed at the moment

I get the impression that Jezza will keep doing it as long as Amazon are happy with the viewing figures. What he earns in royalties undoubtedly allows him to run his farm like one big experiment.

@@justonecornetto80 I bet its the only show amazon have that bump up their subs. I know I only get an amazon sub for when Clarkson farm comes on, I cant be the only one.

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Oh no, he loses the competition - ruined it for me!

But on a percentage of profit over expenses he actually won.