Anyone else watching clarkson farm season 2? I’m binge watching it!

[Ladybird69]

Don’t read if you are watching one episode at a time. I’m binge watching and loving it. The bloody councillors should be struck off the way they are treating him and through him the other local farmers.

[TrinnySmith]

He didn’t apologise to her he apologised for upsetting people (something along those lines) so the public but not to her.

[BethDuttonsTwin]

@TrinnySmith

His Meghan comment was awful

Meghan is an absolute tit and so is her husband. I don’t care what JC said about her. He apologised. Why should millions of viewers who enjoy his shows have to lose them because of one foolish comment? But that’s the world we live in now isn’t it? No apologies accepted, drastic punishments far out of proportion to the “crimes”, no moving on. Bored with it.

[bitnervousaboutthis]

Clarkson's farm was brilliant and should definitely be renewed for more episodes

[TrinnySmith]

His Meghan comment was awful

[BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz]

Where have you read that?

[KeepClarkson]

PLEASE DO NOT BAN CLARKSON FARM!!

Due to Clarkson's comment regarding Megan, Amazon will be stopping Grand Tour and Clarksons Farm😡

This cannot happen, let me know eho agrees with me?

[lljkk]

just catching up... what infuriated me about the council meeting was the attitude: "You don't need the money and it's perfectly acceptable that your farm" (and indeed every farm) "chronically for years and years (and years) doesn't turn a profit."

Clarkson makes plenty of his choices precisely to explore those farming issues. He may or may not really like cows as soil rejuvenators, but otherwise they and the hens are useful for demonstrating the challenges with farming those kinds of animals. Ditto with discussing badger control options where nothing seems off the table if only you could get away with it... teen DS said that was a perfect way for someone like him to understand and really engage with the issues. Charlie expressed well that the original objective of preventing cruelty (high protections around badgers) is very different from modern need to prevent TB. As ever I like the technocrat best, ❤️ Charlie.

Had a long discussion with DSs afterwards about how irrational planning committees are. I get infuriated when locals complain about any plan to bring JOBs and MONEY into the area that might employ local people locally.

[FrostyFifi]

Yes Clarkson is fairly blatantly pissed off and frustrated about Brexit, he's never been pro. People just assume.

[derxa]

@longwayoff

Poor hard up Brexit voting farmers. Now, they dont like it. I dont like it either but at least it's how I expected things to turn out. How can anyone with a brain have believed it would be better? I have little sympathy.

I'm a farmer and didn't vote for Brexit and neither did Clarkson. It's an odd sort of view this. Would you rather that we import all of our food?

[WiIson]

He is very funny and entertaining. I didn't really think much either way about him before, but he was really good in this. I quite like him now.

[PrettyMaybug]

Just catching up with this now. Got 1 episode to go.

It's really good, and as much as Clarkson can be a twit, he is great TV, no matter what he's on. He is really funny and entertaining...

Have to agree @Ladybird69 the way he is treated by the council, and the people in the area is disgusting. They don't like him at all, and don't want him to do ANYTHING. The whole area he is in seems to be full of horrible, petty, NIMBYs who don't like any outsiders.

Imagine moving to a place like that? I'd have given up ages ago if I was him. He's more resilient and tough than me. People have been as nasty as fuck to him.

[thenightsky]

So disappointing for the other local farmers who really needed to join the cooperative with JC to supply their produce.This programme should be shown on the BBC instead of countryfile

I felt so awful for the others who were pinning all their hopes on that co-operative. So sad.

[Kaftanesque]

So disappointing for the other local farmers who really needed to join the cooperative with JC to supply their produce.This programme should be shown on the BBC instead of countryfile DH has just said.Whaever you think of JC this tells you more about farming than anything else .I think for all his bluster he really cares about his team,other farmers and his animals.

[thenightsky]

@MadamLeota

There's a lovely hour long interview with Kaleb and Jeremy here:

Clearly Jeremy has a lot of respect there for Kaleb.

That's a great interview. You can see the respect the two have for each other and what an excellent relationship they have.

[JaneJeffer]

@Soubriquet

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[FrostyFifi]

I think a lot of people confuse Clarkson the public persona with Clarkson the man.

[Murphyturphy]

i have just finished it. I really enjoy watching it. It’s been sad, entertaining, emotional and most importantly educational. I also think season 2 has shown the council planners as petty, as well as clarksons arch nemesis neighbour.

As much as it pains me to say it, I do think Clarkson cares about what he is doing. He wants the farm to be a success with the co-operative farmers too.

[Soubriquet]

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[Soubriquet]

This has got to be one of the best Mother’s Day cards I’ve seen

[Catonahottin]

I wasn’t going to watch this because although I enjoyed series one, I was horrified by his comments about MM. I can’t stand her, but there’s no excuse that for that sort of comment.
I have started watching series 2 . It’s an interesting watch, but I find his stance in using nitrates on his fields and cavalier attitude about murdering badgers off putting.

It’s also all very well taking about lovely cows and their sweet calves , but they are destined for the slaughterhouse or the cruel dairy industry. There is so much cruelty in farming and abuse of animals. Cows are kept constantly pregnant to produce milk and their calves are taken away far too young. Keeping a cow in a cage whilst it is artificially inseminated or basically forcibly mated for profit is nauseating.

[Cornchip]

Just finished watching. Loved it just as much as the first season.

I grew up on a farm so know all too well the struggles farmers have faced for years now. It’s refreshing for the vast majority of the population to now be aware of these struggles.

I don’t live in an AONB but the NIMBYs in the council are a problem everywhere in the countryside, it’s so depressing. People move out to the country from the city, and expect the countryside to stop for them.

They complain about the smell of slurry. They complain about the noise of machinery and animals. They complain about their cars getting dirty. They complain about tractors driving slowly on the roads which are narrow. They trespass through your fields, often with livestock in, with their huge, untrained dogs running amok. At best, it’s a nuisance. At worst, you’ll be walking into a field full of dead stock. If people get hurt on your land, they’ll try to sue you.

It’s so miserable.

I have no issue with folk moving to the countryside. I myself am desperate to move back. But you have to embrace the farming culture there.

I get it. It’s not ideal when you’re running late for work and you’re stuck behind a tractor for 10 miles. It’s annoying when you’ve put fresh laundry out, down wind, and then someone spreads slurry and you have to rewash it again.

But farmers need to be able to farm, and be profitable. We should be encouraging ideas like Clarkson’s. Because the only other truly profitable way to farm nowadays is intensively and that’s something I absolutely do not want to see.

Let’s encourage locally grown food, grown with the animals’ welfare in mind that supports local people and keeps alive traditional farming methods before it’s too late.

[WiIson]

Hopefully they will be able to get the restaurant up and running again. It's going to appeal anyway.

[GCAcademic]

I love Charlie. He did everything by the book in the previous series, but he went slightly rogue this series when he realised that they were never going to be treated fairly by the local council and threw himself into exploiting loopholes.

[megletthesecond]

Charlie has the patience of a saint.

[WiIson]

@mumsneedwine

@Ginflinger but how many people bought at those shops before Clarkson's farm. From what I've been told they are now earning more too as people pop in after going to Diddly Squat. And he's hardly building a multi storey car park - it's a v small shop and restaurant, to try and earn money to keep the farm and keep it an AOB.
Not sure why JC is supposed to be using his time advocating for all fathers all the time - it seems to me that running the farm and doing his day job probably take up quite a lot of his time.
He has highlighted farmers plights better than anyone else. We are all talking about it after all. Surely that's a good thing. Whatever you think of him.

This.