Why didn't that bit grow?

Because you didn't turn the fan on to let the seed come through, to put it in the ground.

How did the fan know to come on there in the other end then?

I'm surprised, to be honest, you got that far because it'd been beeping at you.

Oh, it did beat. Oh, is that where it was beeping?

Yes. That's the voice of Caleb Cooper, a 24-year-old farmer who's the unexpected star of Jeremy Clarkson's

new show, Clarkson's Farm. Caleb went into farming straight from school, but in the industry

people like him are in the minority. It's estimated that the average age of the farming industry

is 59, raising questions around the future British farming.

Are young people just not interested?

On this episode, we'll be taking a look at the next few decades for British farming.

Young farmers are part of the picture, but we'll also be discussing the role played by immigration, especially post-Brexit,

the agricultural pressures and questions around self post-Brexit, the agricultural pressures

and questions around self-sufficiency given the war in Ukraine, and how to balance all of this

with greater concern for climate change. I'm joined by George Eustace, the Secretary of State

for Defra, Tom Bradshaw, deputy president of the National Farmers Union, and a farmer himself,

and Beth Hart, Vice President

for Supply Chain and Brand Trust at McDonald's, who are kindly sponsoring this podcast. So welcome to you

all. Tom, you work with multiple farmers and see the problems that they're facing firsthand.

To start with, can you tell us what it's like to be a British farmer today? I mean, it's a time

of change on British farms at the moment.

And I guess while there's clearly opportunities, I think there are some real pressures

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