Does anyone have the skills to make a Pro-farming TV documentary and get TV to broadcast it ????

[curlietailz]

As title
Could crowd fund perhaps to raise cash
Get a TV documentary maker to create a pro framing doc and then persuade ITV or Channel 4 or even YouTube blog type to broadcast it

I dont, but willing to help pay for someone who does ??

 

[kiwi pom]

I think what you really need is someone who farms and is willing to put time and effort into a YouTube channel, Instagram etc and gain a wide audience base. That way you can start slipping in some facts to explain what you do.
People are more likely to take on board what you are saying if they feel they already have a relationship with you. You can grow it from there, public speaking to schools, university's WI (lol) etc.
You'll get an audience if they think you're a celeb.
Does anyone really take notice of a documentary?

The Millennial Farmer on YouTube being a good example. He seems to have a large number of non farming viewers.
There are a lot of UK based AG Youtubers but none seem to be on here, or don't post.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

I think what you really need is someone who farms and is willing to put time and effort into a YouTube channel, Instagram etc and gain a wide audience base. That way you can start slipping in some facts to explain what you do.

Harry Metcalfe, the founder and founding editor of EVO magazine (if you’re into cars you’ll possibly know of him) does just exactly that with his “Harry’s Farm” arable farming channel on the tube. Been featured on here. Here’s the bio...

“After doing holiday jobs on a few farms, I knew this was what I really wanted to do. After 4-years of study at Shuttleworth Agricultural Collage in 1980, I left with an HND and a job as a on-farm grain-buyer in the Beds and Bucks area with a company called Grainec. I loved this job but I still wanted to be a proper farmer one day, so started taking on small parcels of grassland and buying ewes with lambs at foot to fatten up. I soon discovered sheep farming was too time consuming to keep the day job so turned my attention to taking on arable land, using contractors to work the land to allow me to expand quicker. I'd noticed a few of the farmers I was dealing with felt trapped on their farms because it was impossible for them to take time off, so I offered to take the land on for a year to give them a break. The first farm I took on was 242ac in 1985, by 1990, this has grown to over 1000ac. Evo came along in 1998 after a lucky break and the farming(now 2000ac) had to take a back seat”

Harry's Farm

After doing holiday jobs on a few farms, I knew this was what I really wanted to do. After 4-years of study at Shuttleworth Agricultural Collage in 1980, I l...

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[milkloss]

Harry Metcalfe, the founder and founding editor of EVO magazine (if you’re into cars you’ll possibly know of him) does just exactly that with his “Harry’s Farm” arable farming channel on the tube. Been featured on here. Here’s the bio...

“After doing holiday jobs on a few farms, I knew this was what I really wanted to do. After 4-years of study at Shuttleworth Agricultural Collage in 1980, I left with an HND and a job as a on-farm grain-buyer in the Beds and Bucks area with a company called Grainec. I loved this job but I still wanted to be a proper farmer one day, so started taking on small parcels of grassland and buying ewes with lambs at foot to fatten up. I soon discovered sheep farming was too time consuming to keep the day job so turned my attention to taking on arable land, using contractors to work the land to allow me to expand quicker. I'd noticed a few of the farmers I was dealing with felt trapped on their farms because it was impossible for them to take time off, so I offered to take the land on for a year to give them a break. The first farm I took on was 242ac in 1985, by 1990, this has grown to over 1000ac. Evo came along in 1998 after a lucky break and the farming(now 2000ac) had to take a back seat”

Harry's Farm

After doing holiday jobs on a few farms, I knew this was what I really wanted to do. After 4-years of study at Shuttleworth Agricultural Collage in 1980, I l...

m.youtube.com

Haven’t seen his content so I might be talking out of turn but all I can think of after reading that bio is the sketch from Mitchell and Webb farming sketch......... ‘it just grows out of the f,,king ground!‘

 

[Shep]

There is plenty of content on YouTube, this needs to be mainstream and a direct rebuttal of the recent anti meat propaganda.
I would chip in.

 

[delilah]

@Daniel Larn

and how absolutely fudging depressing that such a massive industry with such a positive story to tell is even having to ask the question at an individual farmer level. Where is the national leadership ffs.

 

[DaveGrohl]

Chris Kresser needs to be involved as a consultant or maybe in front of camera, that guy has a wealth of exactly the type of knowledge that's needed to demolish the claims of the vegan propagande machine. The NFU should be throwing a bag of money at him and begging him and others to stem the tidal wave of cr@p.

I generally feel that a lot of the response from us has been too timid in terms of we're defending livestock farming only as if vegan farming has nothing to do with environmental concerns. The truth is that vegan farming is even more detrimental to the environment than livestock farming but I'm not seeing this being trumpeted. A lot of people are being swayed from an environmental aspect rather than the animal rights aspect. As far as those people are concerned we're looking at an open goal. I'm not comfortable with dissing vegan cropping because I'm a farmer of all things rather than just livestock, but it's time to explain everything rather than being meek. They're playing dirty so we've got to roll our sleeves up too.

The most startling fact I've learnt in the last couple of weeks is that if ALL animal food production across the globe was ceased overnight then the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions would be...........

2.6%

And then you've still got replace all of that meat with something else which will replace probably most or all of that with it's own emissions. Oh and then your soil's knackered eventually too.

 

[Oldmacdonald]

It's not as if we haven't had these.

Think about This Farming Life.

 

[Oldmacdonald]

It's not as if we haven't had these.

Think about This Farming Life.

 

[PSQ]

If you want a serious and honest representation of Agriculture on TV to inform and educate the masses then I have good news:
- Jeremy Clarkson's new series I Bought the Farm starts next year on Amazon Prime

 

[traineefarmer]

If you want a serious and honest representation of Agriculture on TV to inform and educate the masses then I have good news:
- Jeremy Clarkson's new series I Bought the Farm starts next year on Amazon Prime

Are you expecting it to be a pee take? Clarkson may play the clown, but he draws an audience and you only have too look at his war documentaries to see he can put a serious point across when required.

Personally, I'm expecting it to be the perfect antidote to all the crap being broadcast on the BBC and C4 lately. Such a shame its audience will be limited to Prime subscribers.

 

[Red Fred]

Has there ever been a sit com or series about life on a farm? Something with gentle humour along the lines of the old James Herriot series would be good, and there are almost unlimited stories to mine on a typical family farm.

 

[PSQ]

Are you expecting it to be a pee take? Clarkson may play the clown, but he draws an audience and you only have too look at his war documentaries to see he can put a serious point across when required.

Personally, I'm expecting it to be the perfect antidote to all the crap being broadcast on the BBC and C4 lately. Such a shame its audience will be limited to Prime subscribers.

No, not in the slightest...

Joking apart, Clarkson is only on Amazon Prime because the ***BBC refused to give Clarkson a steak*** in the hotel after filming Top Gear. See, they even had an anti red meat agenda back then, the 'watermelon' barstewards.
As such it would be spot on if Jeremy publicly tore 'Anti Beeb' a new one over their attitude to blaming farming for everything...

 

[Daniel Larn]

@Daniel Larn

and how absolutely fudging depressing that such a massive industry with such a positive story to tell is even having to ask the question at an individual farmer level. Where is the national leadership ffs.

Thanks for the tag @delilah, we have a meeting on the 12th-13th of December to get a trailer together and go through some long term planning for the project. I'm really excited about getting this together, as it's been bothering me for about 4 years now.

I will say that I was at an NFU event in London yesterday, part of their speakers for schools initiative, and had a chance to talk about this project. Perhaps there could be a little more involvement soon, especially if we can align ourselves with some of the stuff they are doing in that project.

Are you expecting it to be a pee take? Clarkson may play the clown, but he draws an audience and you only have too look at his war documentaries to see he can put a serious point across when required.

Personally, I'm expecting it to be the perfect antidote to all the crap being broadcast on the BBC and C4 lately. Such a shame its audience will be limited to Prime subscribers.

We have been in talks with an aggregator about whether our content could be bought by one of those kinds of platforms (AmazonPrime/Netflix etc.), but I do have concerns that we will limit our audience in doing that. I am still keen to push on the YouTube front and get it out there in front of people.

I am hoping to have our stuff appearing around the end of January - watch this space.

 

[Daniel Larn]

As title
Could crowd fund perhaps to raise cash
Get a TV documentary maker to create a pro framing doc and then persuade ITV or Channel 4 or even YouTube blog type to broadcast it

I dont, but willing to help pay for someone who does ??

Hold that thought, for a little bit longer...

 

[Daniel Larn]

I think what you really need is someone who farms and is willing to put time and effort into a YouTube channel, Instagram etc and gain a wide audience base. That way you can start slipping in some facts to explain what you do.
People are more likely to take on board what you are saying if they feel they already have a relationship with you. You can grow it from there, public speaking to schools, university's WI (lol) etc.
You'll get an audience if they think you're a celeb.
Does anyone really take notice of a documentary?

The Millennial Farmer on YouTube being a good example. He seems to have a large number of non farming viewers.
There are a lot of UK based AG Youtubers but none seem to be on here, or don't post.

This exactly! Tell them a story and seed just enough information about how it all works, gradually you build a more informed viewer and they have no idea you're doing it.

#Inception

...hopefully I am also going to be going into some schools in the new year, on behalf of the NFU's Speakers for Schools Initiative.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

Haven’t seen his content so I might be talking out of turn but all I can think of after reading that bio is the sketch from Mitchell and Webb farming sketch......... ‘it just grows out of the f,,king ground!‘

Maybe watch and then decide. He’s always been a far more level headed “normal” bloke than many others I can think of that are on the box, scribe columns or otherwise have a hand in the ‘media’. I think you know the types I’m talking about.

 

[Farma Parma]

Harry Metcalfe, the founder and founding editor of EVO magazine (if you’re into cars you’ll possibly know of him) does just exactly that with his “Harry’s Farm” arable farming channel on the tube. Been featured on here. Here’s the bio...

“After doing holiday jobs on a few farms, I knew this was what I really wanted to do. After 4-years of study at Shuttleworth Agricultural Collage in 1980, I left with an HND and a job as a on-farm grain-buyer in the Beds and Bucks area with a company called Grainec. I loved this job but I still wanted to be a proper farmer one day, so started taking on small parcels of grassland and buying ewes with lambs at foot to fatten up. I soon discovered sheep farming was too time consuming to keep the day job so turned my attention to taking on arable land, using contractors to work the land to allow me to expand quicker. I'd noticed a few of the farmers I was dealing with felt trapped on their farms because it was impossible for them to take time off, so I offered to take the land on for a year to give them a break. The first farm I took on was 242ac in 1985, by 1990, this has grown to over 1000ac. Evo came along in 1998 after a lucky break and the farming(now 2000ac) had to take a back seat”

Harry's Farm

After doing holiday jobs on a few farms, I knew this was what I really wanted to do. After 4-years of study at Shuttleworth Agricultural Collage in 1980, I l...

m.youtube.com

Ive plenty time for Harry he tells you all how it is & i dont think he is kidding anyone.
Yes he might be minted & has a stunning Car collection but he farms as he likes to do it.

 

[Farma Parma]

Ive plenty time for Harry he tells you all how it is & i dont think he is kidding anyone.
Yes he might be minted & has a stunning Car collection but he farms as he likes to do it.

just to add for all of us thats farming we totally understand what he is on about
but even for those who dont id even go as far too say he comes across explaining it all far better than dare i say AH on the BBC

 

[Farma Parma]

Haven’t seen his content so I might be talking out of turn but all I can think of after reading that bio is the sketch from Mitchell and Webb farming sketch......... ‘it just grows out of the f,,king ground!‘

Brilliant sketch that.... so many one liners hahaha
Ooooooo am a Lucky Barstwerd