Clarkson's Farm - Amazon Prime series about the most inept farmer... in the world

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wtfNeedSignUp said:
I like the show but I'm just dreading the dumb as shit things the UK is doing. Hope the whole political bullshit isn't there because it's just angering.
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It's ironically one of the few things I don't mind because the quality of soil is legitimately a concern. The further the quality of soil degrades the more reliant we become on chemical fertilisers, the less actual nutrients we get in grown food, the smaller outputs are, etcetera. The big negative is that it might increase the cost of food, but considering farmers struggle to make ends meet as is when they can actually sell their shit and they were already being undermined by foreign imports to begin with, giving them money to make sure the soil can heal up is one of the least awful things the British government has done in the past 5 years.
 
>IMPLYING said:
It's ironically one of the few things I don't mind because the quality of soil is legitimately a concern. The further the quality of soil degrades the more reliant we become on chemical fertilisers, the less actual nutrients we get in grown food, the smaller outputs are, etcetera. The big negative is that it might increase the cost of food, but considering farmers struggle to make ends meet as is when they can actually sell their shit and they were already being undermined by foreign imports to begin with, giving them money to make sure the soil can heal up is one of the least awful things the British government has done in the past 5 years.
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It's even one of God's laws in Exodus 23:
10“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, 11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.
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It makes sense, it allows for land to rest, regenerate, and regain some nutrients like nitrogen by having the animal graze and provide manure.
 
>IMPLYING said:
It's ironically one of the few things I don't mind because the quality of soil is legitimately a concern. The further the quality of soil degrades the more reliant we become on chemical fertilisers, the less actual nutrients we get in grown food, the smaller outputs are, etcetera. The big negative is that it might increase the cost of food, but considering farmers struggle to make ends meet as is when they can actually sell their shit and they were already being undermined by foreign imports to begin with, giving them money to make sure the soil can heal up is one of the least awful things the British government has done in the past 5 years.
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Hopefully the rules aren't dumb enough to just have it be a constant patch of land, but rather letting it cycle around every few years so it actually has a net positive. Still a waste of money during an economic crisis with ever increasing food prices.
indomitable snowman said:
It's even one of God's laws in Exodus 23:


It makes sense, it allows for land to rest, regenerate, and regain some nutrients like nitrogen by having the animal graze and provide manure.
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One of the more fascinating religious laws with how long standing the consequences are.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Hopefully the rules aren't dumb enough to just have it be a constant patch of land, but rather letting it cycle around every few years so it actually has a net positive. Still a waste of money during an economic crisis with ever increasing food prices.
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It might come down to the farmers. They might just keep their smallest field as a subsidy patch for consistent passive income and use the largest ones only for profitable stuff. Kaleb got irked at Jeremy for the 'organic farming' thing which might be a shared sentiment since they're at the edge as is but the subsidies might give them enough breathing room to make cycling viable. It might affect prices but we signed a trade deal with America that'll allow a certain tonnage of (to our standard) food that might mitigate things (it goes both ways too - the EU was so strict on checks and shit it cost more to sell it abroad than here but farmers at the mercy of UK supermarkets).
 
It's amazing how The Cotswolds is supposed to be "ye olde English tourism spot" yet piss and shit themselves at the thought of more tourists showing up for a renovated pub/british food restaurant. Oh but they'll happily allow Shitblaster Poojeet Curry to have a shop in an historic town.

Everything about the show highlights the death wish the UK has for itself. Lack of local abbatoirs is horrible not just on a farming level but an ethical one too as stewards of the land. A double decker big ass animal semi trailer is not the sign of a thriving society.
 
Finished the current episodes. Great that Kaleb is back, wish he was more time with the Tikotoker.
mandatorylurk said:
It's amazing how The Cotswolds is supposed to be "ye olde English tourism spot" yet piss and shit themselves at the thought of more tourists showing up for a renovated pub/british food restaurant. Oh but they'll happily allow Shitblaster Poojeet Curry to have a shop in an historic town.

Everything about the show highlights the death wish the UK has for itself. Lack of local abbatoirs is horrible not just on a farming level but an ethical one too as stewards of the land. A double decker big ass animal semi trailer is not the sign of a thriving society.
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That abbatoirs shit just adds to the insanity of the UK basically killing farming by legislating it to oblivion. Wonder if we get to the inheritance laws in the last episode. The perfect bar being right next to gay faggot forest, which Clarkson is expected to provide assistance to help the faggots have privacy to fuck others near children, is the strawberry on the shit sundae.

Having a lot of cars in a tourist spot, bad.
Homo sex, "well, we can't do anything about it".

Also that "plowing releases carbon" is so fucking insane. Just thinking about it logically, and the fact the alternative is buying tons of fertilizers flown in from other continents shows how the pro environmentalists only make the elites richer.
>IMPLYING said:
It might come down to the farmers. They might just keep their smallest field as a subsidy patch for consistent passive income and use the largest ones only for profitable stuff. Kaleb got irked at Jeremy for the 'organic farming' thing which might be a shared sentiment since they're at the edge as is but the subsidies might give them enough breathing room to make cycling viable. It might affect prices but we signed a trade deal with America that'll allow a certain tonnage of (to our standard) food that might mitigate things (it goes both ways too - the EU was so strict on checks and shit it cost more to sell it abroad than here but farmers at the mercy of UK supermarkets).
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Issue is the profitable stuff really depend on markets and the weather.
 
Ok half way through and just watched episode 4 I think. The way Allen the builder goes off and says the place was called the A40 Bum club nonchalantly was a double take there.

Anyway, I hope all the council members live long enough to see the entire countryside shit up from the infinity poojeets the UK is importing who don't care about your silly rules.
 
2 new episodes, even with cameos from old friends! It's nice that there's less messing with town hall bureaucracy this season, but dear good the costs of building in the UK is insane, and having the government dictate bullshit practices that doubles the costs of everything doesn't help. Wouldn't be surprised that rather than using UK timber they import wood from China.
 
And that's a wrap for this season. On one end no council politics is good, but on the other end the Pub is even more time consuming and less interesting. I just want to farm man.

The people looking worse from this season is the pair of managers Clarkson got to the pub. I don't know how they don't realize they did a career suicide:
> Talk on how they have a ton of experience in managing pubs.
> Suggest pie in the sky ideas without even having a budget.
> Not look at dates, leaving it to Charlie to figure out that the opening date is wrong.
> Don't warn Clarkson on multiple pitfalls that you'd think they would have the experience to prevent.
> Bitch at their employer for wanting them to work by his own ideas rather than be a yes man.
> Tell their employer to speak with the staff for them.
> Complain about the job and quit after literally two days.
> Get replaced by a school teacher who does a better job.

Charlie as always is god's strongest soldier.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
And that's a wrap for this season. On one end no council politics is good, but on the other end the Pub is even more time consuming and less interesting. I just want to farm man.

The people looking worse from this season is the pair of managers Clarkson got to the pub. I don't know how they don't realize they did a career suicide:
> Talk on how they have a ton of experience in managing pubs.
> Suggest pie in the sky ideas without even having a budget.
> Not look at dates, leaving it to Charlie to figure out that the opening date is wrong.
> Don't warn Clarkson on multiple pitfalls that you'd think they would have the experience to prevent.
> Bitch at their employer for wanting them to work by his own ideas rather than be a yes man.
> Tell their employer to speak with the staff for them.
> Complain about the job and quit after literally two days.
> Get replaced by a school teacher who does a better job.

Charlie as always is god's strongest soldier.
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The Pub is more or less Jeremy trying to champion his local farmers issues that he talked about in the first season. I think the season was effectively “owning a restaurant is a fucking nightmare even with money and Amazon backing you” and that adding a farmers market + butchery is a bigger headache. Then the issues of his fame to the equation.

I think Charlie embraced Jeremy because the show and Jeremy do actually highlight the issues of the British farmer and Jeremy can throw money to try to help other farmers by doing insane plans and then plans that genuine help.

The two managers really didn’t do anything or even know how to deal with Jeremy with anything than passive aggressive British cuntiness. Dude is effectively one of the most popular Briton’s in the country and they didn’t foresee shit going to hell?
 
HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:
The Pub is more or less Jeremy trying to champion his local farmers issues that he talked about in the first season. I think the season was effectively “owning a restaurant is a fucking nightmare even with money and Amazon backing you” and that adding a farmers market + butchery is a bigger headache. Then the issues of his fame to the equation.

I think Charlie embraced Jeremy because the show and Jeremy do actually highlight the issues of the British farmer and Jeremy can throw money to try to help other farmers by doing insane plans and then plans that genuine help.

The two managers really didn’t do anything or even know how to deal with Jeremy with anything than passive aggressive British cuntiness. Dude is effectively one of the most popular Briton’s in the country and they didn’t foresee shit going to hell?
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I wouldn't be surprised if some Pub association asked him to do it. There's too much of a difference between raising crops and selling the beer, not really helped by Clarkson immediately starting big rather than do one thing at a time.

Charlie (and the rest of the people helping in the farm) are very much the kind of people that made Britain great - Loyal, smart and hard working. Shame that this type of people was replaced by cunts like the managers.

With the managers I don't see how Clarkson was in the wrong. It was a rush to make it to the holiday season, and it was his own money being invested. Just about everyone else had more of a reason to quit, not the "managers" who seemingly dropped all the responsibility on Clarkson. Either they only managed small pubs inside cities where most of the problems couldn't happen, or they were used to just instantly calling repairmen without understanding what was the problem.
 
The managers were absolute cunts, especially the older fatter one with the horse face and retarded voice.
They probably are just used to clicking their fingers and having things done, without having to roll up their sleeves. Clarkson walking through the kitchen, and everything seemed alright...he apologised to the staff, they all replied back with a 'it's alright mate' kind of understanding, then the thundercunts are barking at him to go back in. I bet they whine and whine all day and helped stirr shit up..
 
Out of morbid curiosity, checked the reddit and that manager pair is getting absolutely hilarious amount of hatred. They absolutely deserve it and I wonder if it will turn into irl drama when journos and people knowing the pair would step in.

Some people try to white knight the pair, mainly by shitting on Clarkson, but anyone who ever worked a real job calls their bullshit, with accusations of the pair being grifting.
 
I can’t believe the chairs they got for the bar didn’t swivel and they didn’t try to clean the floor before setting up the tables. Also, lmfao at their overpriced umbrellas. These people just made themselves virtually unhireable.

Also, I’m guessing the frame of Rachel Reeves was a dig. Every article online is calling it a glitch but I can’t imagine it was on accident.
 
Caught up on the last 4 episodes, the Rachel Reeves thing was 100% on purpose to tie into the british farmer getting fucked more. Not the best season since it was obvious farming and pubbing at the same time will be a problem, but it's still the best show on TV. I would like to see the seasons expand.

As I saw the two women managers show up I knew they were going to be a weak link. The chef, who looks like if Phil Collins lifted weights instead of banging drums, was kind of a dick but he was willing to work with Clarkson's all british idea, and it seems like he was just hired to set things up and get things in position for someone new in a few months. I've had to deal with those project planners IRL and like the women here, they are usually wives of more successful men who demand they need something to do while their kids get older or have more school to keep them out of the house, so they have to pretend to be important and create more problems than solve. I fully expected Lisa to defend Clarkson at one point, maybe they cut that out, it sure feels like a LOT of stuff was cut out of this season, like Clarkson's heart attack.

While Clarkson was in the wrong for not reading the calendar correctly, that can be remedied with his money because that far into construction people will work more if they know there's a benefit to the speed since it wasn't their fault at all (and I'm sure he paid Alan's people a bonus). I know he doesn't try to use it because other farmers don't have it, but he know he can make things right with his 50 million in the bank, which makes things like the end of year crop yield not so much of a tension issue. But Clarkson's here to be a voice for the ignored white working class in the country and he does it well, even people who are super liberals who watch this realize Clarkson's actually doing a good thing here.

Charlie is a good soul, and Kaleb needs to get a good kick in his ass soon. Ruining the harvest was a pure dick move, I get trying to help the old guy but you do the other things and let him enjoy the thing he actually looks forward too, and also don't be a cunt to your boss who facilitated you to make some free money with your tour to put your family well off for at least an extra 10 years.
 
GungusDingaling said:
Also, I’m guessing the frame of Rachel Reeves was a dig. Every article online is calling it a glitch but I can’t imagine it was on accident.
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Clarkson addressed it on twitter, not my screenshot, sorry for censor and the horrible light mode

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mandatorylurk said:
Charlie is a good soul, and Kaleb needs to get a good kick in his ass soon. Ruining the harvest was a pure dick move, I get trying to help the old guy but you do the other things and let him enjoy the thing he actually looks forward too, and also don't be a cunt to your boss who facilitated you to make some free money
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Kaleb makes the show almost unwatchable for me. Harriet was so much better, made me realise just how bad he was. She was quick to mess with Jeremy, but she seemed to be doing it much more in good fun. Even sort of showed something I wouldn't have even considered, women farmers being sort of lonely, you just expect women farmers to be doing it to help out men, I've never considered that perhaps women are into that sort of thing as well. Cool stuff!
 
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