b0llocks he works for the bbc!
Countryfile tonight
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lazy farmer
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- som/dor border
What a horribly personal thread this has turned into.
this place luckily is normally fairly kind. Even it’s anti bbc bias is polite.
But this is becoming a school playground whispering campaign.
Insidious and pernicious.
this place luckily is normally fairly kind. Even it’s anti bbc bias is polite.
But this is becoming a school playground whispering campaign.
Insidious and pernicious.
Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
My apologies if my post offended. It was meant mostly in jest and should maybe have included an emoji or two. 
I think he does a great deal of good on a Sunday evening and, for the most part farmers see that, but nobody is ever going to be all things to all men.
I think he does a great deal of good on a Sunday evening and, for the most part farmers see that, but nobody is ever going to be all things to all men.
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- South Molton
Plenty others where it gets personal and half truths. Then there is the gossip!!
Social media at it's worse.
I too think AH dies a very good PR job...good for him.
However, from personal experience, I find the production co extremely dubious in their practice, and pretty insulting in the way they treat some of us.
I hardly ever watch what I regard as soft focus puerile garbage..but accept that that's inevitable in a show designed for the urban masses.
And it does rather sound like AH uses his position for personal gain...
......which would be somewhat at variance with the wholesome image projected.
Sorry if my thoughts offend...but not very sorry.
However, from personal experience, I find the production co extremely dubious in their practice, and pretty insulting in the way they treat some of us.
I hardly ever watch what I regard as soft focus puerile garbage..but accept that that's inevitable in a show designed for the urban masses.
And it does rather sound like AH uses his position for personal gain...
......which would be somewhat at variance with the wholesome image projected.
Sorry if my thoughts offend...but not very sorry.
Willie adie
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- Aberdeenshire
I wish to disagree, he works for the BBC which has on numerous occasions loved to put the boot into British farmers.
Yet Henson says nothing takes thier( sorry our, license fee payer) money,
He moans about tb on his farm yet the programme promotes badgers and thier habitats.
He visits flooded farms, yet some bloody hippy is on saying how great it is to block up ditches and watercourses.
He opened a countryshow up in Scotland and nearly bankrupted them with his excessive demands,
The hypocrisy shown by the program beggars belief,
Henson enjoys the limelight and willingly puts himself up for scrutiny,
Aye he's a great ambassador
Willie adie
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- Aberdeenshire
When someone travels the length of the country, to pick up a cow, 2 piglets, a few chickens etc, all being funded by the licence fee payer, they have to accept that they are also allowing the cameras in to thier business and practices,
He enjoys the plaudits, so he must be willing to take on board criticism too,
He enjoys the plaudits, so he must be willing to take on board criticism too,
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- West Wales
A few years ago a friend was at cereals looking at a Rogator, “he” was next to my friend and asked if he could have the sprayer for a big discount as it would be on TV, they said no so he went straight to Horsch who had just released the PT270 that year and said the same. A few months later a horsch was on CF.....
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- West Wales
Still makes me laugh when he was saying “my my my”, my combine, my baler, my trailers etc yet the whole lot was Henry Righton’s, and for those that didn’t know it they were all sign written with Henry Righton on the side 
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- Limousin
I don't know what this obsession with slagging Adan Henson and the Beeb off is about. The vast majority of people nowadays have little or no connection with farming anymore, and people like Henson, Wyn Jones, Kate Humble, the Owens etc are vital to get our side of the story over to these people. On top of that they also seem to have to take a lot of personal abuse and threats for being in the limelight and standing up for our way of life., but that should never come from fellow farmers.
As for the Beeb, they have put on some ruddy good farming series like "This Farming Life" and "Lambing live" that have been interesting and informative to farmers and the public alike.
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- Near Derby
I think what annoys people is the lefty bias they see from the BBC, especially last Tuesday when News at Ten had a piece on calling Winston Churchill a racist. There were 2 snowflakes slagging Churchill off and no one to give the other side. And I can't watch Newsnight these days cuz I don't want to have to buy a new TV, Emily Maitlis what a dreadful person she is.
I do like Adam Henson though and like you I think he does a good job for farming.
I do like Adam Henson though and like you I think he does a good job for farming.
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- Suffolk
does it really fecking matter?! He does an excellent job and is talking to an audience who don't know or give a sh1t about who's baler belongs to who!Still makes me laugh when he was saying “my my my”, my combine, my baler, my trailers etc yet the whole lot was Henry Righton’s, and for those that didn’t know it they were all sign written with Henry Righton on the side
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- S. Staffs
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- Limousin
I know what you mean. Not sure it's particularly a lefty bias, but an obsession with putting an opposing point of view (getting the balance in Beeb speak) even when there is no obvious opposing view. For example, a doctor will be questioned about the benefits of a certain vaccination. This will be then be balanced by some tinfoil hat wearing loon with no medical knowledge representing a group of disgruntled parents or similar.
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- Limousin, France
I knew and farmed not far from "young 'enry" good big contracting business. His brother runs the family's cows
Willie adie
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- Aberdeenshire
The BBC showed a series focusing on sainsburys and one episode focused on Easter and supermarket fear at a warm Easter meaning no market for thier new Zealand lamb. Anti British farming.
And a programme I forget the name with Dr Liz Bonnin showing farming practices in Brazil and she was very disparaging to the British livestock sector.
And the BBC blatant bias in the Scottish independence referendum and brexit votes
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- Limousin
I don't follow you. One episode out of a series following Sainsburys concern about a warm Easter affecting Lamb sales is evidence of the BEEB's anti UK farming stance?
As for "Meat: A Threat to our Planet?" It's a view, some of the facts are just wrong due to bad/lazy science. But other points are entirely valid, as a farmers we can't just pretend that meat production is any more sustainable in it's current form than the fruit and veg sector, which likes to pretend it's good for the planet. But again it's vital that the industry has people who can tell the public how it actually, is warts and all.
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- Northumberland
Thing is, talking to "townies" is a totally different skill to chatting to rural folk at the mart / pub.
The feedback I get from customers in the toon is that when they watch a Henson piece on CF they understand the story. Not so many farmers are able to do that.
The feedback I get from customers in the toon is that when they watch a Henson piece on CF they understand the story. Not so many farmers are able to do that.
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- Somerset