Quote Originally Posted by Tooks View Post
No doubt, and I was working on one at 14, that wasn’t really my point.

If anything, Harry Metcalfe is a ‘non farmers farmer’ more than anything that countryfile do.

I like him, I like his car stuff as well, and have been a subscriber to Evo magazine since issue 1, but he has a huge secondary income and I think even he would say he’s not an average or typical farmer.

So, it’s no more a realistic portrayal of farming than Clarkson’s setup, but agree it helps folk unfamiliar with the issues to think about farming and food production.
I agree with your points, Harry's probably not your typical farmer. He has though, taught me a lot more about farming than I knew before, some things I'd never thought of, that can't be bad. Didn't Clarkson win an award for bringing farmers' lives & issues to peoples' attention?