BBC and farming programs

My brother who is a farmer is a Clarkson fan, everything has happened to him but not in the same year, a very good account of reality if you are trying to make a living out of farming. Of course the Diddly Squat diversification got out of control, he had the money he could have done it properly.
We did watch the latest story with all the planning problems and TB worries, in my view spoiled by bad language throughout.

They come under the BBC's commitment to 'educate' I guess.

Nanabanana1 Why do we get so many programs about farms and farming?

Because it sells to a market, is interesting to some.

I am not a Jeremy Clarkson fan however, I was enthralled by Clarkson’s Farm, it definitely highlights problems of 21st century farming according to our farmer friends.

Jeremy Clarkson latest series on Prime tells it like it really is

Yes and so did the first series.

Farm Porn. If you want to learn about farming from the farmers perspective, you get up early and listen to the farming programmes on R4.

However the OP feels overwhelmed by farming and antiques. The reason we get so many of both is because the programmes are cheap to make, run to endless repeats that lots of people watch and because so many watch they can charge a good price to companies placing ads on them.

Thankfully I have never been a tv watcher, so see very little

Try watching some and understand the dominance of supermarket buying driving down the money received for milk for less than it costs the farmer to produce it. How farmers can’t sell their meat as it can be sourced from overseas where it’s been raised in much lower welfare conditions than allowed here. That wonky vegetables are still rejected.
I’m sure this suggestion will receive a chorus of ‘that dreadful man’ but Jeremy Clarkson latest series on Prime tells it like it really is.

Calendargirl

If you mean ‘Countryfile’, my DH, a countryman, hardly calls it ‘farming’.

More like a magazine programme.

We call it ‘countryside for townies’.

I don’t watch much regular tv now. It is all terrible lowest denominator and boring. Streaming is the way to go.

If you mean ‘Countryfile’, my DH, a countryman, hardly calls it ‘farming’.

More like a magazine programme.

Most of my viewing is on streaming services.
I think what’s on offer on terrestrial is dire.