'As a contractor, I can’t really put my prices up because the farmers go, “Christ, I can’t really afford it.”' Clarkson’s Farm star Kaleb Cooper has opened up about how farming is ‘incredibly hard’ amid the cost-of-living crisis.
The 24-year-old farming contractor shot to fame last year after the release of the hit Prime Video farming show, which followsSpeaking about the pressures on farming given the current cost-of-living crisis in Britain, Cooper said: ‘I think farmers are going to, either way, get through this and I hope they do it together, but it’s an incredibly hard industry that we’re in with everything going up in price.
He continued to the PA news agency: ‘In the farming world, the person at the top is the farmer and he often has no better.Cooper’s clumsily endearing persona on the show’s popular first series – which also featured ‘Charming’ Charlie Ireland, Clarkson’s land agent and adviser – has earned him 1.1million Instagram followers.: ‘It’s Kaleb’s Farm, secretly’.
After the publication of his first book, The World According To Kaleb, Cooper reflected on what he has learnt since taking part in the show, telling PA: ‘I mean, you don’t learn it unless you get out there and have a go.‘So, for example, farming, I started at age 13. I went out there and had a go and now I’m 24.‘But in terms of a book, I went out and had a go and I’ve learned stuff along the way. With the television, I’ve learned stuff along the way and I’m still learning.
‘I think the day you say to yourself, ‘I think I’ve got it, I’ve mastered this job’, is the day it’s going to go horribly wrong and I think you’re gonna be in the wrong job.Clarkson recently confirmed that it won’t be long before series two of his and Cooper’s adventures hit our screens.
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