#JERRY HANSON HOBBY FARM SERIES#
The Countryfile presenter is back on our screens tonight - but in a brand new series on Channel 5.Īdam is examining the changes farmers are making to their businesses to survive, from transforming drab barns into luxuriously usable spaces to tapping into the lucrative tourist trade and maximising profit with farm-to-fork ventures. "I won't last forever on television, and as soon as they drop me in the bin, I'll just go back to being a farmer." "Although it is a hugely pleasurable job to go around the UK meeting farmers and finding out about fascinating businesses, the downside is it takes me away from home more than I would ideally like. Farming is my proper job," he told The Express in 2019. "I film two days a week, and that takes me away from the family and away from the farm. Then only other downside of being on Countryfile is that it takes him away from his home a lot. "I have had some serious hate letters from them – things like, ‘We are going to burn your children’." The series was first broadcast on CBS, from September 15, 1965, to April 27, 1971. "There are some very nasty extremists about," he told a farming conference. Green Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a rural country farm. '"But when the BBC chuck me in the bin – which they will do sooner or later – I will just go back to being a farmer," he joked, adding: "'That’s my proper job."ĭue to his extensive knowledge of farming, Adam has gone on to work on BBC Radio 4's On Your Farm and Farming Today.Īs well as hosting Countryfile spin-off shows, he has also presented on Gardener's World and alongside Nigel slater on Nigel and Adam's Farm Kitchen.īut there has been a nasty side to fame, as Adam accused animal rights extremists of making sickening death threats against his children.Īfter reporting on controversial proposals to cull 70% of all badgers in areas affected by bovine tuberculosis in 2012, Adam said he subsequently received vile hate mail from angry animal rights activists. "We couldn't have farm sales because nobody was allowed on our farm."Īdam was initially only working once a month, but when the viewing figures skyrocketed to six million he got a starring role. We couldn't take sheep to market because they were all shut. "We had a big rent bill but all our assets were tied up in sheep and tractors. We probably owed £250,000 with all the borrowed money on machines and what we'd invested in the farm park. "The bank closed in and wanted their money. "The worst time was in 2001 – we'd invested heavily in Cotswold Farm Park, then foot-and-mouth hit just before we opened," he told The Telegraph in 2016. The foot-and-mouth disease epidemic led to millions of animals being slaughtered, with farming and tourism industries both being hit hard.Īdam confessed his farm was on the brink of collapse and they nearly lost everything they had worked so hard for. Īdam and Charlotte poured everything they had into the farm but came close to losing their home when disaster struck in 2011. Get the news you want straight to your inbox.
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