Clarkson’s Farm returns for a third series and it seems the local council is still on Jeremy’s case over his various businesses.
The second series of the Amazon Prime farming show focused on Jeremy and the gang’s ambitions to open a restaurant on the farm grounds.
Despite rejection from the council, they eventually managed to open the farm restaurant, after jumping through some obstacles to make it happen.
Throughout the new series, Jeremy apparently finds himself in more trouble with the local councillors, who are set to close his farm shop and car park.
This also means that Jeremy has to lose his beloved herd of cows; However, there is a new cohort of farm animals arriving during the third season.
Diddly Squat Farm becomes home to a herd of rare breed pigs, while Jeremy turns his latest crazy scheme to make money for the farm.
Clarkson’s Farm returns for a third series and it seems the local council is still on Jeremy’s case over his various businesses.
Throughout the new series, Jeremy appears to have more problems with the local councillors, who have moved to close his farm shop and car park.
The second series of the Amazon Prime farming show focused on Jeremy and the gang’s ambitions to open a restaurant on the farm grounds.
Jeremy and Lisa’s close bond with their new arrivals also creates the show’s “saddest moment” yet, as they struggle with dying animals on the farm.
Jeremy and Lisa’s close bond with their new arrivals also creates the show’s “saddest moment” yet, as they struggle with dying animals on the farm.
The farm is also fighting to save the local shop, which has become a hit with tourists, while Cheerful Charlie fights against the council’s endless bureaucracy.
Jeremy and Charlie familiarize themselves with the latest enforcement notice and try to come up with a plan to prevent the store and burger van from suffering the same fate as the restaurant.
At the farm store, Charlie is tasked with making sure Lisa follows the council’s instructions exactly to the letter, much to her annoyance.
Speaking about the new rules, Lisa said: “Charlie had to have a serious conversation with me and tell me that I could end up with a criminal record if I didn’t comply, it’s the council regulations that I respect, especially after Charlie explained it to him.” in her clear and concise way.
Meanwhile, Jeremy receives feedback about the future of his farm shop as he attends a meeting with the local council to fight for it to stay open.
The newcomers to the farm do not arrive quietly, as Jeremy decides that his uncultivated land will become home to goats and pigs.
The pigs settle into their new home in the woods and the series follows the farrowing season, which ends in utter heartbreak for Jeremy and Lisa.
Diddly Squat Farm becomes home to a herd of rare breed pigs, while Jeremy turns his latest crazy scheme to make money for the farm.
Meanwhile, Jeremy receives feedback about the future of his farm shop as he attends a meeting with the local council to fight for it to stay open.
The central story of the series is Jeremy’s competition with Kaleb, who has recently been promoted to farm manager.
Explaining his reasoning for buying pigs, Jeremy said: “I put pigs in the woods – woods don’t normally have cash, no money comes out of them, so I just did little things like that to see if I could make more than him.” . he did. ‘
Jeremy and Lisa are incredibly hands-on with births and are even forced to intervene when they don’t go smoothly.
Most births occur at night, in intense cold, but they had to be available in case the mothers had any problems.
Jeremy said: ‘The sows were giving birth but it was always in the middle of the night and very cold.
“When you have a sow that is in trouble, you have to help her, and the fact is that Lisa’s hands are smaller than mine so she was the first to say, ‘It has to be me, it would be ridiculous to put her.’ and old boxing gloves to the bristle’.
‘She literally came up to my shoulders. She later said that at least it was warm there.
Sadly, not all of the piglets survived, and a recent trailer for the series showed the moment a lifeless-looking piglet was pulled out.
A local farmer leaves the marauding goats (kids), with the master plan to clear the acres of scrub in Diddly.
The children cause the same problems for Jeremy, who receives 30 babies.
They face off with 500 acres each to see who can make the most money: Jeremy uses the uncultivated land and Kaleb uses the cultivated land.
Speaking about the competition, Jeremy said: “That’s the backbone of the whole series. We have a 1,000 acre farm but since I bought it in 2008 we’ve only farmed 500 acres and the other 500 acres are wildflower meadows, streams, forests and rugged terrain.
The central story of the series is Jeremy’s competition with Kaleb, who was recently promoted to farm manager.
They face off with 500 acres each to see who can make the most money: Jeremy uses the uncultivated land and Kaleb uses the cultivated land.
Speaking about the competition, Jeremy said: “That’s the backbone of the whole series. We have a 1,000 acre farm but since I bought it in 2008 we’ve only farmed 500 acres and the other 500 acres are wildflower meadows, streams, forests and rugged terrain.
“There are no crops or animals, just fields because the state of agriculture is pitiful right now. I bet Kaleb that I could make more money doing small projects on uncultivated land than he could by farming 500 acres.
‘So, while he stuck to traditional wheat, barley and farming, I started picking blackberries, planting mustard and using small patches of uncultivated land around the place.
‘We harvest the nettles, which are normally just a nuisance, and try to make soup with them. I put pigs in the woods – woods usually don’t have cash, no money comes out of them, so I just did little things like that to see if I could make more than him.
‘It’s a way of trying to make money from every little postage stamp on the land without spoiling the countryside, so it’s not destroying the land; picking blackberries and nettles doesn’t hurt anyone.
‘This year, the spending was really astronomical because the prices were so high. You spend a lot of money and then hope that the weather is good and the prices are right when you sell.
We grew mushrooms on top of the farm where there used to be an American bomber base; The underground bomb shelter is still there, so I thought, ‘We can grow mushrooms there.’
It was about: can we make a fiver here and a bit of money there? I won’t spoil what happens, but it was an interesting experiment. In the old days, when fertilisers, seeds and sprays were not so expensive, farming was like gambling when the minimum bet was £2.
“So you can go to a casino or a horse race and bet £2 and it’s fun because if you win £4 or £6, great, and if you lose you’ve only lost £2.” That’s funny. But if the minimum bet was £100,000, you wouldn’t bet; You just wouldn’t risk it.
‘Last year, before harvest, we had to spend £108,000 on diesel, fertilizer and the seeds themselves. That’s a big bet.
“It’s okay if the weather is good because you’re going to get that money back.” But you spend many, many sleepless nights when you know that a storm could ruin everything.
‘I have noticed that farmers are quite optimistic; They say, ‘Well, you can’t control the weather’ and get carried away, but I’m too Yorkshire for that.
‘I stay in bed after spending £100,000 waiting for the weather to be good and guess what? The weather was absolutely terrible, all year round, every month.’