Clarksons Farm Series 3 - Behind the scenes

In this episode we gain press access to Diddley Squat farm ahead of the new series of Clarksons farm. We heard about the trials and tribulations in the cast met in their new ventures. 
 
Jeremy and Kaleb have gone their separate ways in farming practice to see who can make the most, and spend it too! This has been done to show the changes that the current government are inflicting upon UK farming practices.  
 
What will happen to the cows is unsure after the various obstacles the farm, shop and newly opened restaurant have faced.  
 
The day involved a shop tour from Lisa, a guided tour and a pint with Kaleb, a tractor ride with yokle Gerald, who is a bit easier to understand in person and discussing the intricate farm details with Cheerful Charlie and Dilwyn the Vet.
 
Catch up on the down low on season 3, and a q&a with the duo that has stole the nations hearts, Jeremy Clarkson and Kaleb Cooper.

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you can trust me on this podcast. We're giving you the download ahead of the newest series of Clarkson's Farm. What will happen to the cows? Is unsure after the various obstacles that the farm, the farm shop and the newly opened restaurant have faced? Caleb and Jeremy have split the business to challenge which farming system is more profitable. To show the changes that this government are inflicting upon UK farming practices, I'm Ashley Layton from the livestock team. And last week I made the trip to Chipping Norton to the Amazon Prime Press day a diddly squat. The morning involved a shop call from Lisa and a guided tour and a pint with Caleb, as well as a Q&A with straight talking Jeremy. Well, the afternoon to attract a ride with yokel Gerald, who is a bit easier to understand in person, as well as discussing the intricate farm details with cheerful Charlie until win the bat while also getting a sneak peek at the new pigs and goats on the farm. So here is the down low on series three, and a Q&A with the duo that stole the hearts of the nation, Jeremy Clarkson and Caleb Cooper. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast so you don't miss out on your weekly dose of all things farming. Hope you enjoy! Please put your hands together, Mr. Jeremy Clarkson. Blah blah blah. That's bad. It doesn't even keep. Holding everybody on. Oh, welcome to the new squats. What a wonderful day. The sun is breaking. I never imagined it myself. We shall see. we'll be bringing on, new friends in just a second before we get there. Just have a little chat to you. we're now in the third season. Season one was very much the origin story. Yeah, season two was you sticking it to the man or you versus the man? Yeah. what would you say season three's kind of running theme. It's it's me against the man again in season three. But the man this time isn't west of the district council. It's Caleb. Because, I have this idea that the farm is a thousand acres, which is, you know, it's some it's average to large sized farm, but we actually only farm 500 acres of it. You know, the fields that you can see here and 500 acres is sort of wildflower meadows and woods and streams and things of that nature. It's also almost you can make any money out of farming bits of the farm on farms. So I had a competition. Caleb said, you do your farm and you do your wage and your barley, and you're all seed raising, all the little bits and bobs in the woods and in the meadows and see what I could earn. I lost lots of money to some members. but, no, it was it was a fun competition. It ran for a whole year. but what we really did in for was to highlight, the enormous cost the farmers face just to try and get food down to the ground. So, ordinarily, you'd probably spend on the farm like this, 40,000 pounds and see them and fertilizer, slug pellets and and then all of the various diesel and all of the various things you need to grow food. Well, last year here it was 109,000 pounds. So you have to spend, it's a bit like if you go in some casino and it's a 2 pound minimum, but you can have fun with you might, you know, you to pretend to put on on the roulette table. It's in my fleet of 500 minimum that you know, and to do it's it's too risky. And for me it's getting to that point where it's too risky. Really. You just take them. Oh, God. If I invest 100,000 and then the weather's bad, I've lost the lot, you know? So it's it's that's really why we did it. And I hope you were. Well, performers and joys and and that's it. Is it made you is having the farm and doing this made you more politicized and or climate. Well, but this is always. No, I mean, the simple fact of the matter is, doesn't matter who's number ten, nothing will change ever. That's just the facts. climate where? Well, it's certainly been a bit positive the last four years. So it's every single month seems to set another record. And I listen to it now. Well, I pretty much may you've got a blanket on your knees and that you were good to go to match three. Very nicely done. And I've got a jumper on, you know. So this is very cold last night it was incredibly cold. And the rainfall since October the 18th has been simply incredible. So yeah, there's the climate. Let's say the weather is certainly misbehaving at the moment. we, we watched episodes three and four last night. Ever. Vincent screams for to have a bacon sandwich this morning. All of them after this. Sausages and the bacon. The story. we were eating last night. We like Julie Jane for Lisa to walk in with us with some pork, but sadly, that didn't happen. But it's a very emotional season. Yeah. we get to see the softer side as well. Was I intentional? Was it a you know, I know you don't say, let's buy some pigs and hope they die, but, you know, it's I mean, I've always liked pigs. My mother used to buy two toy pigs, you know, Christmas, obviously, but it's when I was in my 20s with a huge clutch of them. Always been fond of pigs I thought would be fun to have them. And then they've just died in alarming numbers. And it was very heartbreaking. I've never, ever seen Lucy from not Once ever until that all started unfolding. It was it was just terrible. I mean, there's still guy, but we're getting more used to it now. We're a bit more, you know, just. Yeah. Robust. I was trying to think of a what would get me in trouble, you know? Anyway, yes, we've been stronger. But dealing with it now. But it was it was a very heartbreaking a very heartbreaking time in the rooms of Gosport. Yeah. The the farmers paradox as you, as you call it in the season, must be like as a viewer, just like heartbreaking to watch you do you get even tougher and is it, is it always weird when you go down and you see the cows as well? I think that's a manderson. We've got a few of the goats here. Most of them are down at the farm. But we also feel for you. This one, this I will look at and I'm very fond of those. And then you do. I mean, Kate, who keeps a kill with goats? Go and kill them and sell them. We can eat them. But I actually don't know what it was, almost because I like them. But the pigs you have to sell. There was no. You would take pigs if you didn't eat. They get like a massive die. Well, they get massive. And then there would be no cameras or pigs in the country if people didn't eat them. So I was it that about John Penders? We'll saved the farm to start his and then farmers will pick it up. I know how we can get this lot breeding. but yeah. So we, you know, in order to have the animals, you have to eat them at the correct time. and it is weird because you love them and you can pass to them, and you nurture them and you feed them, you take care of them. You go back round when they're poorly and then you kill many. So it is a strange place to be when you haven't been a farmer all your life. But we all getting better answers. Definitely all. And as a viewer, I've loved the show right from the office and like obviously hundreds of millions of people have as well. How much of it is planned, how how are other times when you know you have to stop filming? Where are you going? Fetch. George can give you a bollocking. No, no, no, no, this is what I. That I read a piece in the Sunday Times recently saying a farmer had said, that it would never happen, the tractor would do a wheelie and that you'd put Caleb in the white box, which you did in season two. But it did happen. Okay. Terrible is around. Somebody will tell you it did happen. And but I'm making whatever I'm making a bit mustard or jam or what have you. Charlie drops into the farm probably once, maybe twice a day. So no, you never have to wake up for do that happens. It's June with reality television, but it's not hosted by somebody who purple spectacles with words. It's absolutely real. What you see actually happens. None of it's planned. But I don't mean the Grand tour. Everything was planned. Literally everything, you know, ritual, media, library of that much, nothing is planned on almost nothing. I have no script. And every single day when we meet to do filming every day, we'll have a vague idea of what we need to do. Like we need to. I need to read will this film we're doing season four now, so it's written in that field because I did it wrong the first time. I need to do this, I need to do that. So we'll need some tomorrow to do that. And I can guarantee we'll end up doing something completely different because the weather will have changed or some fans will have fallen down or whatever it might be. I never, ever know what you're going to do. The song never. Let's Be Terrified as a program. It's, well, not really so much content. It doesn't really matter what it is. I mean, look, if you guys do, you'll probably be along to the center of a scarf tomorrow, and it's it's. I'm still content. This is true. I can, should we bring in your, you know. Yes. Crime. As ITV told you yesterday. Britain's biggest pillar. So. You. Is Britain. Hello, everybody. Yeah. Is or has been seen as. Yeah. Remains to be seen on each side. I'm very good. How are you? Very good. you know, we've all watched your meteoric rise. is it from from a wet, behind the ears farmer to the one of the biggest celebrities in Britain. Now, how how has that transition been for you? Because, you know, you still ask yourself as catch Stubbs, a farmer or something. Soon. Very much the farm. I spend every day on the farm. I. People go on tour every now and then, but it's not anything that happened for a very long time because I missed the farm too much. Yeah, I may have missed if not right here, who knows? How do you congratulate them? Because it just has been such a changed your life. Just Jeremy. Jeremy help you with that? He offered you any advice? Well, I just say that I'm going to spend 18 hours in a tractor on my own and just don't talk to anybody. It's amazing. It's best thing in the world. It's really. Yeah. And then, of course, we talk all the time. And I got a little bit of advice, man. I got a little advice for him. That's what I would say. Right. I think it's it's very easy to be grounded if you don't. Leadership knows it. Yeah I mean everybody you walk down the streets of JP not with Covid. Everybody knows them. And they've always done, you know, since he was two where he was so the next. So it's you don't really see a change because it's not like you're trying to get a table at the Ivy. And if you know what I mean where is that. Yeah, exactly. What are you. Oh, so it's his life is exactly the same. Really? Absolutely nothing. It's nothing. Nothing at all really. Change, actually. Yeah. I your relationship apparently just blossomed into one of the loveliest in television, I think. I think it's it's really, really good to watch, how Jeremy. You was you almost. Did this season start taking advice willingly. Some kind of rather than reluctant. Now, I've always taken advice from him. I think the difference is when it comes to, girls and to be nice, you know? No, I'm trying to think. I'm trying to think what aspect of farming I've picked up, but that's really the change. That's the question I always want to do something. I didn't used to be able to do it at all. Now can do a bit. But no, I still can't get a trailer. That's that's quite annoying. I still stuff to do that for me. yeah, but it isn't as though my attitude has changed since, picked up a few things. Yeah, but just comfortable in the of those things. I'd like to name a few things. Actually, I can be nice for once. I mean, I've always said this, I think from the start when we first got picked in this season, the sort of typical. Have you got another thing? I've got a baby's babies that you're looking after. And that is one thing on the farm I can leave you do when you do a really good job at is he's actually a really good pig farmer with they also the pig. See last night I so. It made it better. And it's. I did you would Jerry mentioned the competition between the unaffordable and you being promoted for manager. Yeah. I got the promotion fund manager. I'm sure a farm manager for about five years, but. And, you know, on paper, it was last year, apparently. But, Yeah, I mean, it was really I think it was a really good idea, especially the competition that we have. I mean, I think you put anybody together and say what, you're going to compete against your friend here. And I mean, I go straight away, I want to win. And if you go, I go with, yeah, but what really what really? the competition do is it highlights how much money you have to put in as a farmer to actually produce food. People on that tables. There was a snap. Do you mind if I get a bit boring on farming? This isn't boring. I know. If you're a farmer, I'll give you a stat that I worked out just yesterday. So in order to grow. But actually, no, not in order to grow. When I grow, we grow wheat. Okay, we get£0.25 for a kilo of wheat that we produce. Now, a kilo of wheat is enough to make one loaf of bread. Okay, so we're getting 25 pounds. You're paying 1 pound foods in the supermarket. What's happening there? We're taking all the risk. We are the ones who are planting the seed, fertilizing. It's spending the fortune working through the night, praying. The weather doesn't misbehave. And it makes moving policy. Otherwise it's just animal feed. We have that risk and we've got 25 pounds supermarkets to charge you for. But now come on, making flour. You just put the things grown. Yeah, that's not difficult. Making breads then TV shows about that. It's fun. It's easy baking bread, TV cameras in front of it. You know, people can make that for nothing. So why is supermarkets charging 1.40 pound that is not. It's nuts isn't it. Yeah. And that's why film is up these days. And those prices are set in Chicago. Oh, so you tell me. No. Isn't this the choice of some. But anyway, it's not we don't we don't choose how much we got. This is how much you get for winter at the moment. I a try aged. So I was it first of making the show. I know I love my name. Chicago is a scratch. Is living in Chicago is in Chicago. Charlie you said it is is giving me the thumbs up. I got that right. You see, there's a bit of funny knowledge. It's somebody in Chicago. You know, we've all seen trading Places. It's that this is the price of wheat. You're going to get £0.25 for a kilo of wheat. What's so ridiculous. And that's something you guys do really well. And as you said, kind of that highlights they that the intricacies, the difficulties of the farming community. You're not the message system is the message that runs through every single season. There's loads of pressure from the farming community. You know, they they completely outside. They must be overjoyed that they level of attention you brought to the to the difficulties from the UK, I think. So, I mean, while I love the trailer for season three, it does slightly give the impression it's become hobby farming, which we've tried to avoid. I mean, kind of pathological. We're not. Oh, look at this little lamb with red on this fresh straw and little hands of a pretty. It's very keen that we show farming. Farming. Yeah. And we do show proper farming. So don't be, don't be fooled into thinking that because the trailer shows me hoovering blackberries off of thing, but it's is something I'm never going to forget. Driving the you two. You've been hell, I didn't even stop. Do you know I have the idea for in the morning and it works. That's the two day work. But no, it's it's not. I'll be farming. You still see? I mean, the vast majority of the show is about, big farming. Yeah. I mean, if you look around, it's it's a farm. It's it's not, you know, a little 20 acres or something, a petting zoo. Yeah. Exactly. Right. It's not a petting zoo, is it? Well, you've still got the goats, is. We should eat them. I don't think you should. It's your business model. It's a business model. No, my head's what it is. So basically, he's got a 29, boy. Gotcha. So therefore the produce milk or anything of that? Anything they're good for really using meat. So therefore it's a business. Mind him. If you take them to slaughter, cut them up at the farm shop and sell them. And then you buy 20, 20, 30 maybe. Yeah. Female goats and you breed them. And then what happens? You get more goat, then put to the shop and therefore you making a bit of money. But because that boy goats only cost a tenner. No he didn't. He goes to ten different milks, that sort of thing. You get, you pull them for that and you got to read them, which is the cost. You 15 could eat into the milk powder and labor. Yeah, yeah. So that watch the Euro 25 pound each year. Then you've got to feed them. Yeah. Yeah. To get them to now say what are they costing you. 23 per day in food. Each of these little lovely eyes like sheep doesn't. And I wasn't aware if I may know who the real reason is. I had this machine in season three called a Rumble Log. So yeah, that's an amazing piece. Unbelievable. But there are 1 or 2 bits of the farm. It can't get to two statements until an accessible. So that's what I thought I know. So get goats and they will do them up and down. That will create probably another ten acres of farmable out for the farm manager to make money from this valley. That's not this is the sort of thing that happens over breakfast every single morning. You can do that with 30 female goats are in kit, two baby goats. Well, I know when the goat just. Yeah, maybe see one. And just because you rented it, it doesn't. That does it. But I'm sure it's a great business. You just you described as a destroyer of what is a destroyer. What? It's like no therapy machine, isn't it? It was an emotional support pursuit. Like a dog. It went missing for about two weeks. But where is this? Is on that little robot. I was going to talk about the team effort that, that you guys, it seems to this year, all of you have kind of found your roles within the farm, but obviously that was the competition. Say, Jeremy, you're off hoovering blackberries. Caleb, you're actually managing the arable side of things. And then, you know, Lisa is kind of like growing into, like, becoming this tour de force in the shop, even though off it was contraband. And there's, you know, Kate is there's, you know, Gerald and Charlie as well. Everyone's kind of got their role there. but. Yeah. How does it is that's something that's taking time or was there a bit jostling? It was pretty relaxed. I think that's a good thing. I think that's how a farm works. I think at the start, when you put a team together, I mean, I've been working in for eight years now, but I think it's when you put the team together, you've got to find your roles. And I think now I think we probably say we have found the role and everyone's got that specific role that they go and do on a day to day basis, and not all of a sudden team work happens and you will combine together to get a job done. In the end. So recently to hand up, hey, we all come up here and help Lisa. Well, if Joe needs a hand doing whatever you do and hoovering hedges, we'll go and help them do that. Or if I'm out there actually making some money on the farm, we'll go and help each other to do that. So I think as a team, we're actually a good team, even though I, Lisa and I probably do the majority work as well. Charlie and Joe, I mean, you know, Joe, you what's you got on your BlackBerry? Yeah. Just to. Oh, that is something I'm never gonna forget. I work in the morning newspaper in a hedge. I was like, you know, I haven't got the energy. God should stop and ask him what he's doing. I could not believe it was. Yeah, well, he's not only somebody that's a little bit BlackBerry. He's gonna defend this idea of the hours and hours and hours. Do you go to college or something? Know. And the hours I was in Las Vegas in your hands. And you look down and got like, six, and it's just there once. That's just not enough. So the Henry Hoover, it's just amazing. Got. Oh, I like the idea. I mean, I like the idea of a farm in the end. Farm. I think, you know, it's in the farm. The average size of a farm in the UK, that's 125 acres. Now is all that always farm? Probably not much. Let me take a woodland out in the hedgerows. So actually I think it's a really good. Yeah. I mean I went when did you on when in the woods. We got the pigs in the woods is I think you'll see later on. And you'll also see as we drive down the wildflower meadows there which are, oh, amazing. They're very special in southern England. because by the 100, there's 250 acres of wildflower meadows, which started about two weeks ago. Be dark yellow when the dandelions came and they're now pale yellow is the Cowslips is a couple of weeks ago blue with cornflowers. And then they'll go white when the dark days are over. So you've seen them. If the sun comes up today, they're very special. And you got zero money for. So you got 250 acres purely for the bees. Actually, it's up to you to say zero one is so simple. Helpful. Well, that the famous Steve a that tune 40 pounds a night, but nevertheless you don't you can't earn money from them, let's put it that way. Yeah, I it would be. You know, I've never watched episode four last night. let's talk about pigs. it was, it was. You've got two dogs who are an hour here and you got very red. Well, it was it was red when we went from Game of Thrones on to the most devastating episode of television. You up to that one episode four of, It was. It was horrific. Yeah. I mean, yes, that was episode four. Was. That was the Red wedding. We did have some tsunami that all of a portion stops. Watch. They don't listen to a word you say. Yeah. No, we've got a fox. Red. Larry. Yeah. One more listens to me. Yes, yes. Let's go. Come and go in, you hulk in the tractor. No, we don't stuck him in the tractor. He sits in the tractor willingly with those ups. Yeah, I'm. Yeah, I'm. He lives in the. Well, I was running around. They were. You'll see. Actually, I think you will have. No, no, don't bring them out, please. No, I'm not going to bring them out. That would be impossible. But they're they're a very funny running joke. Those two dogs, they really are there. The nauseous dogs have ever met in my life. Yeah. do you regret the pig? Doo doo doo doo doo? Do you regret getting the pigs involved? You. Did you regret as it. Now that's solved into something that's working for you. How's. How's it going? Well, we had a bit of a calamity again the other day, but by and large, that going quite well. I made an invention which is improving mortality rate. Oh, yes. So I don't know if we can talk about that, but that's the good stuff. Yeah, but I mean, that comes in effects of season four. We get a consider no, no, no I mean there are noise noise. But I don't see any noise. That's, pig farmers. So I said why don't we do this? And then they did it. And then I said, you have the you, those of the farmers, the kind of like that one. We can give it to them. So that's good. And it reduced the mortality rate. Yeah. That's what I thought it was you that when he was, say, do we plan it when Charlie arrives on the season. Diabolical because Mr.. No, no, no. Yeah. There he is straight away. I think you'll find it reduces rather than improves. Yeah. Corrected on my list. Thank you. Tom waits and I do maths. And what's what's the plan. How is it will go. You know what. What would you say to the people watching events in the first four episodes? How did the following four transform? I was where do we end up to the. We allowed to say, Well, it could be a nice surprise for you. Yeah, I watched the Final Four last night because I saw that first got and go going against Chelsea. Turned it off. five nil wasn't it. so yeah it was five. No. Wasn't it. Remember the last time Chelsea played on, you lost them for two months where there's nothing to know. So I watched the Final Four last night. I won't I won't spoil it for you. Yes, it's it's lovely. It's, it's I think it's a very, very heartwarming program. I think it's, I think it, it ticks every single box television should say. Yeah, it's funny, it's informative, it's charming, it's heartwarming. It's a very nice way of spending your time as well. Too much so you must you must sit down in the evening. And I just can't enjoy this amazing show. You know, it's it really is one of the one of the best shows on TV. And it's it feels quite effortless, even though I'm sure it's not effortless. It's also it is because I don't have to pretend to be someone else. That's what I mean. It's just like it's see the ground. So, Richard Hammond isn't as stupid as it's made out of this. I know it's bombastic. This is made out of James. Made is pointless. Boring as he's made. And, so you're playing a caricature of you playing a role, you know, you that's a you could you you may be stupid here. We haven't got any of that. So we just ourselves, you know, we all just you gets up and you just you just have to be yourself, which is incredibly relaxing. And in that regard, it is effortless. Yeah. I mean, farming is not effortless like I think we've learned, but one side of it, yeah, is a piece of cake because he just I don't have to say, oh, I want to say something idiotic. Now you just get on. And do you do anyway? Yeah. Like you said, it, Caleb and Jeremy, thank you so much for joining us, everybody. sweet. That's all from me, Ellie Leighton and the team at Diddly Squat Farm. Thanks for listening. And.