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00:00:22I'm going to get a bed of straw as well.
00:00:24I've hooked up the trailer to the range.
00:00:25Yeah.
00:00:26So we can go down in that.
00:00:29Having prepped the barn for the harvest,
00:00:31we were now hurriedly converting it into a TB isolation unit
00:00:36for the cow that hadn't passed the test.
00:00:39Come on, you.
00:00:40I'm afraid it's not good news for you.
00:00:44She's been separated from her calf down there,
00:00:46so she's really distressed.
00:00:48She's pregnant with twins.
00:00:50Shouldn't we get the calf in here as well?
00:00:51No, because remember what Dilwin said?
00:00:53If the calf comes in, the calf will have to go as well.
00:00:59Is that calf going to be crying tonight, or will she be crying?
00:01:02Yeah, she'll be, yeah, one of them will be.
00:01:03She'll be crying, yeah.
00:01:05Well, just, isn't it a terrible disease?
00:01:08It's just sad that a cow should never be on its own.
00:01:09A cow is a herd animal.
00:01:16I'm so sorry.
00:01:21It's a cow.
00:01:21It's a cow.
00:01:24There she is.
00:01:28We've got so relaxed about it, hadn't we?
00:01:31Because we've been fine for so many years.
00:01:33I know, ten tests we've done now.
00:01:34I know, I can't bear her.
00:01:35She's such a shock.
00:01:40Oh, man.
00:01:44Oh.
00:01:45Oh, man.
00:01:49We then went to fetch Endgame,
00:01:51because given how important he was,
00:01:54we felt it best to isolate him from the rest of the herd as well.
00:01:59Farming shit, innit?
00:02:00Yeah, it's just, I don't like it today.
00:02:03I mean, that's devastating with that poor cow there at cow number one,
00:02:07but Endgame, Jesus.
00:02:09I could not put him on the lorry.
00:02:12I just couldn't do it.
00:02:16Hello.
00:02:18Is it Endgame?
00:02:19Oh, no, Endgame's got his head between the car and the trailer.
00:02:22Endgame, you are not helping here.
00:02:26Endgame, move.
00:02:27Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
00:02:31no, no, no, no, no.
00:02:33Load up.
00:02:35Good lad, go on then.
00:02:36Go on.
00:02:38Go on then, lad.
00:02:44Hear that noise, that's car shouting for mummy.
00:02:47Yeah.
00:02:54Come on, Endgame.
00:02:57Back in solitary confinement, I'm afraid.
00:03:00He looks magnificent.
00:03:05Poor old Endgame.
00:03:18And some levity at the end of the day.
00:03:22He's so beautiful.
00:03:23He is a beautiful animal.
00:03:24He'll be fine and he has to be.
00:03:26He'd better be, he'd better be.
00:03:30They're talking to each other, look.
00:03:31I know.
00:03:32At least they have each other.
00:03:39He's so beautiful.
00:03:43And some of you.
00:03:48The next day it became clear that the calf with pneumonia was getting worse.
00:03:56You try and stand up for me. Come on, try and stand up for me.
00:04:01Oh, baby.
00:04:04Oh, well done.
00:04:09Back at the yard, we made a pneumonia isolation pen
00:04:13for the little calf and her mum.
00:04:16That was so heavy!
00:04:21There we go.
00:04:23She's breathing like she's got fluid on her lungs, I think.
00:04:26So, is that pneumonia?
00:04:27Yeah, that's a pneumonia.
00:04:29Yeah, I just hope it's not too late.
00:04:34I would say that is not a well calf.
00:04:37We've got to keep feeding her for the next couple of days.
00:04:39Yeah.
00:04:40And hopefully, we'll get her strength back as her antibiotics kick in.
00:04:42And then, as she gets her strength back,
00:04:45she will start feeding off her mum again.
00:04:48Oh, I'm just all right.
00:04:52Hoping that would be the last time we needed to build a pen,
00:04:55we tidied away the rest of the fencing.
00:04:59It's all we've done for two days is build cattle pens.
00:05:02I just want to get out harvesting.
00:05:05Oh!
00:05:06Boom out a bit.
00:05:10Oh!
00:05:11Stop!
00:05:19I'm going to the fucking pub.
00:05:23That is the last straw.
00:05:42After all the trauma we'd been through, I finally got some good news.
00:05:50We could start harvesting before I went off to hospital.
00:05:57And we'd begin with the oats.
00:06:01It's slightly weird doing it without Simon.
00:06:05But it's exciting to be doing it with Caleb.
00:06:07And especially exciting because Caleb had bought himself a combine harvester.
00:06:19Here we go!
00:06:26The mighty Lamborghini pressed into service once again.
00:06:30No beeping of the nonsense we got from the green one.
00:06:35Look at that for one snazzy trailer.
00:06:44Don't realise how big they are until you sit in one and you drive one down the road
00:06:47and you go,
00:06:47I actually am bigger than the road there.
00:06:55Shit!
00:06:55Right.
00:06:57I'll be tight.
00:06:59Oh, my God.
00:07:03Sorry.
00:07:06Maybe I should have gone the other way.
00:07:13At the oats field, I got my first sight of Caleb's Leviathan.
00:07:19Holy cow, look at that.
00:07:21That is a whopping combine.
00:07:23How much wider is that header than Simon's?
00:07:27Eight foot wider.
00:07:28Eight foot.
00:07:29His was a 22 and that's a 30.
00:07:31So you should have this done in two hours.
00:07:34Yeah.
00:07:35And it was only 35 grand.
00:07:37Yeah.
00:07:38Because the new combine is what?
00:07:39Half a million.
00:07:40Half a million, yeah.
00:07:41I can't believe how cheap that was.
00:07:45But then when he started it up, all became clear.
00:08:05It's quite wobbly.
00:08:07Yeah.
00:08:08Add some vibration on it.
00:08:10Here we go.
00:08:11Caleb Cooper is harvesting Diddly-Squot Farm for the first time.
00:08:26I'm going to have to up.
00:08:30It comes up.
00:08:32I think I'm going to have to chuck that out a little bit.
00:08:38Finally.
00:08:41Is it actually doing any harvesting?
00:08:44No.
00:08:45You're definitely just bending the oats over and then they're just coming back up again.
00:08:50I think it's so short I'm really struggling to get it.
00:08:54It's like combining a lawn.
00:08:56Yeah.
00:08:57I'm going to have to adjust the head up lower.
00:09:05Yeah, that's better.
00:09:06That's now cutting it.
00:09:08Is it?
00:09:09Yeah.
00:09:10You first field a deadly squat and we've given you a difficult one.
00:09:14It's a hard one.
00:09:17What was that?
00:09:18That's a stone, do you hear that?
00:09:19Yeah.
00:09:20Because I'm having to go so low, then we're going to have to just risk it this year and potentially
00:09:24take the old stone in.
00:09:25Because if I go any higher, I'm going to miss all of the grain.
00:09:30Yeah, you're harvesting rocks now.
00:09:35Fortunately, some oats were being harvested as well.
00:09:40And eventually it was time to fire up the Lambo and start grain carting.
00:09:50Oh, hello, he's doing it.
00:09:52I've had a bit...
00:09:52Sorry, sorry.
00:09:53I didn't know he was actually going to do that.
00:09:57For God's sake, Caleb.
00:09:59What are you doing?
00:10:02What are you doing?
00:10:03Still, you can't afford spillages like that this year.
00:10:16Shut it now.
00:10:18This is really hard.
00:10:20I'm struggling to cut this.
00:10:21It's so fucking short.
00:10:23I know it is.
00:10:32I'm sure it's making a horrible noise, but I don't know what it is.
00:10:36Can you come and see if you can hear this noise?
00:10:44Ah, it's these.
00:10:46I know what it is.
00:10:48Practical, genuinely, it's these things.
00:10:51That one's not perfected.
00:10:53Then you can see where it's rubbing here.
00:10:55Oh, fuck me, yeah.
00:10:56I think what's happened is, you know you've been running really low.
00:11:00Yeah.
00:11:00I reckon you hit the earth with it, and you brooked it.
00:11:04Ow, shitting hell, that's fucking hell, that's hot.
00:11:08Don't, whatever you do, don't touch that, because that is, they're going to melt.
00:11:15I need some tools.
00:11:16All right.
00:11:17Well, I think it's going very smoothly.
00:11:20We've got half a trailer load, and it's five past twelve.
00:11:30It was an hour before Caleb's budget combine got going again.
00:11:37I thought we'd start this field at 8, 8.30 this morning and have it done by 11.
00:11:43Oh, well.
00:11:49It's not like we're fighting moisture.
00:11:53Hold on a minute.
00:11:57Oh.
00:11:58Maybe we are.
00:12:02That can't be rain.
00:12:05It is.
00:12:07Shit.
00:12:09I cannot believe it.
00:12:11Look, that's raining it.
00:12:12That's going to rain.
00:12:13For the first time since fucking February.
00:12:16The day we start harvesting.
00:12:18What the fuck?
00:12:21Honestly, beggars belief.
00:12:24I'd say that was already...
00:12:27I see a look on the CCTV of the pub.
00:12:30Is it raining at the pub?
00:12:32Which is nine miles in that direction.
00:12:34Oh, look at that.
00:12:35Holy shit.
00:12:37See that?
00:12:40That's what's coming here.
00:12:42We've had it, mate.
00:12:43We need to get what we've got in the trailer into the dry.
00:12:46Do we just load up with what you've got?
00:12:48Yeah, I think so.
00:12:49Fuck it, we're not going to pay drying charges this year.
00:12:52That would be ridiculous.
00:12:56Do not want heavy downpour on it.
00:12:58Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
00:13:02Tell me when you're empty.
00:13:04All yours, mate. Go for it.
00:13:08Here comes the rain.
00:13:11Yeah, I can't even see the other side of the valley now.
00:13:14Bloody hell.
00:13:19Shit.
00:13:21It's really coming down now.
00:13:23Come on, come on.
00:13:33Oh, no.
00:13:34That's never going to work.
00:13:36Come on, come on.
00:13:37Not now, not now, not now.
00:13:48No, no, no.
00:13:50No, no, no.
00:13:50I'm in such a panic, I can't do it anymore.
00:13:59Come on, no, no, no.
00:14:07Go, go, go.
00:14:07Mercifully, the rain eventually stopped.
00:14:14And after three hours of warm sunshine...
00:14:1913.6!
00:14:21Let's go, go, go!
00:14:23...we got going again.
00:14:29And soon we were in a perfect golden hour harvesting groove.
00:14:39I've got a deer in front of me. Come on, little one, move.
00:14:47Now I'm back with a smile on my face.
00:14:52Sun's out. Combine's working properly now.
00:14:58Now we're farming.
00:15:00Whoa! Slowly, slowly, slowly.
00:15:02Oh, that's one at the back.
00:15:05Not bad.
00:15:07So you're going to drink?
00:15:11Hey, you're spilling some, you're spilling it, you're spilling it, you're spilling it!
00:15:16I was too busy calling in a wanker.
00:15:21Beautifully done, Jeremy. Beautifully done, Ollie.
00:15:25You watching that, Piastri?
00:15:28Just saying.
00:15:33I was just thinking, though...
00:15:36...now we're alone...
00:15:38...that if I hadn't have got myself checked out...
00:15:41...and they hadn't caught the problem early...
00:15:44...this could well have been my last harvest.
00:15:50It's only because they did catch it early...
00:15:52...there's every hope...
00:15:54...I'll be harvesting this farm for many, many years to come.
00:16:00Mate, I want to thank you. This is like a dream.
00:16:02Ever since I was a boy, this is a dream come true.
00:16:05Especially when I started here.
00:16:06Ten years ago, believe it or not.
00:16:08And this is my first year being sat in the combine doing the work.
00:16:11It is...
00:16:12It's an honour, but absolutely...
00:16:13I'm buzzing.
00:16:15I love that.
00:16:17I mean, I'm buzzing because it's my farm.
00:16:19He's buzzing because he's in his own combine for the first time.
00:16:23Everybody's buzzing at Diddley tonight.
00:16:30As the sun began to set, there was some welcome news from Caleb.
00:16:35Well, that's the oats done.
00:16:37Finished.
00:16:39And finished well.
00:16:41I'll see you tomorrow, mate.
00:16:43Yeah, catch you tomorrow, thank you.
00:16:45Oh, thank you. Enjoyable day.
00:16:46Well, a fraud today, but we did get it done.
00:16:53Thanks to the drought, the oats yield was visibly smaller than in previous years.
00:16:59But it could have been worse.
00:17:00It could have been the next crop we harvested.
00:17:03The mustard seed.
00:17:07This is it.
00:17:09Jesus Christ.
00:17:13I mean, this, just so that the ladies and gentlemen understand,
00:17:17we should have, you know, filled this section, you know, with a good...
00:17:20How many acres is that field? Five, six?
00:17:22We only, it was only, it's 2.4 hectares.
00:17:26So, five acres.
00:17:27Yeah.
00:17:27But we only come by half of it.
00:17:29Which, did you get the brown or the yellow?
00:17:31The far side.
00:17:31Far side, the brown.
00:17:32Yeah.
00:17:33The yellow failed.
00:17:34Failed, yeah.
00:17:40The next morning, I was told that my cancer operation would happen in six days.
00:17:46Come on.
00:17:47And I desperately wanted to get both the winter wheat and the spring barley harvested before then.
00:17:59But, sod's law, it immediately started raining again.
00:18:07Um, we've got to get timings worked out in all seriousness because...
00:18:10Yeah, the pressure's on.
00:18:11Today's likely to be a write-off because of the weather.
00:18:14Yeah.
00:18:15Which leaves us with Wednesday...
00:18:16Potentially tomorrow.
00:18:17Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
00:18:20Sunday, I have to go down to London because I'm in the hospital at 6.30 on Monday morning.
00:18:26And I really want to try and get it done by then.
00:18:29And then you've got your third child is due...
00:18:32I'll pretend she'll end in next week.
00:18:35But she's always, like, seven days early.
00:18:38Christ almighty, so we've...
00:18:39That's all right.
00:18:40I mean, as long as I'm there for the birth.
00:18:48Incredibly, after one of the driest summers on record and far too late to help the crops, it then rained
00:18:54solidly for the next three days.
00:19:02This meant it was Saturday before Caleb could bring his combine back to Diddly Squat.
00:19:08And this time, to hasten his passage through the town, I provided an escort.
00:19:19All those years, he's given me stick because my tractor is too big.
00:19:24And then he goes and buys a combine bigger than a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier.
00:19:31You're clear to come through?
00:19:34Can't wait.
00:19:38The only ones that block are over.
00:19:40Do you want bread and lager?
00:19:42Yeah.
00:19:43Do you need a combine?
00:19:45100%.
00:19:47Thanks to my professional escort services, we were soon at the farm.
00:19:54I'm gearing up to go.
00:20:00Weather.
00:20:01Holding.
00:20:02Tractor.
00:20:03Working well.
00:20:04Let's get some wheat in this trailer.
00:20:09I now had just a day and a half to harvest the wheat and the barley before going off to
00:20:15hospital.
00:20:22But the hugeness of Caleb's combine meant it could harvest extremely quickly.
00:20:31That's a staggeringly full trailer.
00:20:34Normally with two combine loads, albeit with a smaller combine, it's sort of three quarters full.
00:20:41That's properly full.
00:20:44See the bin.
00:20:46Go!
00:20:47You're going to have to be really speedy because I don't think I'm going to make it around again without
00:20:51you being it.
00:20:53Okay.
00:20:55So there can be no shilly-shallying here, no making a mistake.
00:21:00Bloody hell, that's not the dirty door mirror back in.
00:21:06In.
00:21:07There it is.
00:21:10Get this bloody door back out again.
00:21:12Shit.
00:21:16Well, I'm trapped in my own cab.
00:21:20Can you just someone on the film crew come and pull this?
00:21:23Just pull it back.
00:21:27Oh, that's not brilliant.
00:21:30Well, that's it.
00:21:31This is where I live now.
00:21:33I live in the cab.
00:21:34Where are you?
00:21:36Well, I'm ready.
00:21:38I'm full.
00:21:38Come on.
00:21:40Well, Chrissy's going to have a go.
00:21:46Shit.
00:21:47Yeah, that's probably overdone it.
00:21:52Come on now, let's not make a mess of this.
00:21:55Quick, quick, quick.
00:21:56What's he doing?
00:21:59How in the corner is that?
00:22:02And back we go.
00:22:05Go!
00:22:11For hours, we powered on.
00:22:17And the going was smooth.
00:22:24Nicely done.
00:22:25Totally professional.
00:22:27That's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right.
00:22:30I really love your tiger life.
00:22:32And that's neat, that's neat, that's neat, that's neat, that's neat.
00:22:35I really love your tiger life.
00:22:40All right.
00:22:49Come the evening, we were only two cartloads away from finishing the wheat.
00:22:54Which meant that tomorrow morning, with an early start and some luck, we'd get the barley done as well.
00:23:00But then...
00:23:11Clutch pedal short circuit.
00:23:14The clutch pedal sensor engine power is a short...
00:23:20Caleb, we've got a serious problem in here.
00:23:24Clutch pedal sensor grounding short circuit.
00:23:27What, you got no clutch at all?
00:23:29No.
00:23:31It's paralysed.
00:23:36In desperation, I called Ben, the local Lambo mechanic.
00:23:41Good evening, sir.
00:23:43Ben quickly discovered it wouldn't be a simple fix.
00:23:47Definitely the sensor's gone.
00:23:48Well, we... yeah.
00:23:49But when he heard about the urgency, he did what farming people do.
00:23:55Canceled his plans for the evening to help out.
00:23:58I've got the sensor there. I'm going to rob, pillage and raid another tractor in someone's yard.
00:24:02To get you up and running.
00:24:04I can't thank you enough.
00:24:05We will get you up and running in one way, shape or form.
00:24:12Overnight, he dragged the tractor back to the yard and tried everything to get it going again.
00:24:23So, I'm having to go through and check every plug, every wire, every control unit from basically here all the
00:24:31way down,
00:24:32fire the gearbox back up to everything up in this corner.
00:24:35Oh, shit, really?
00:24:36Yeah, yeah.
00:24:37So, I know this is an impossible question to answer, but I'm going to ask it anyway.
00:24:41When do you think it'll be amended?
00:24:44If you got it back today, it'd be some form of miracle.
00:24:47So, I've got to take half the cab apart, yes?
00:24:50Okay.
00:24:52In the end, though, it didn't matter anyway.
00:24:59That is... yeah, that's...
00:25:01What do you mean?
00:25:01That is...
00:25:03It's wet rain as well.
00:25:04Yep.
00:25:09I'll go pack my bag.
00:25:13No point hanging around, is it?
00:25:15No.
00:25:15Not going to get any harvesting.
00:25:16Get over there and get comfortable.
00:25:28Yeah.
00:25:28So...
00:25:30Barley.
00:25:31Yeah.
00:25:33And I'll see you on the flip side.
00:25:35Don't worry about anything here, all right?
00:25:37Go after yourself.
00:25:39Well...
00:25:39Lisa, look after him.
00:25:40No, she's back.
00:25:41She's got a grain count.
00:25:42I know, but driving him up there.
00:25:43I know.
00:25:44We're back tomorrow.
00:25:46Yeah.
00:25:46All right?
00:25:47If you need anything, you let me know.
00:25:47Well, now I'll be in at...
00:25:48Now I'll be in at six in the morning, I mean.
00:25:50Yeah.
00:25:51We can do FaceTiming if you want.
00:25:52I'll put you on the front of the tractor.
00:25:56OK.
00:25:56Yeah?
00:25:57All right, look out yourself, all right?
00:25:58See you.
00:25:58See you later.
00:26:00See y'all.
00:26:01See you, everyone.
00:26:42Off the clutch.
00:26:43Yeah.
00:26:45Always at a moving speed.
00:26:47Yeah.
00:26:47Where it's just creeping at 2km.
00:26:48OK.
00:26:51Little turns like this.
00:26:52Yeah.
00:26:53The second that you don't do it quickly, you jack nice?
00:26:56Yes.
00:26:57The trailer's got the mind of its own.
00:26:59What I'm going to do is I'm going to count to what he wants to do.
00:27:01Yeah, OK.
00:27:06All right?
00:27:07OK.
00:27:08You've got this.
00:27:10So, I want to go in there.
00:27:13Here we go.
00:27:15And I'm going to go back.
00:27:25I have knife checked.
00:27:28OK.
00:27:29Wheels are going that way.
00:27:33That's it.
00:27:35That's it.
00:27:36Straighten your wheel up now.
00:27:37Straighten your wheel up.
00:27:38Too much.
00:27:47Straighten your wheel up.
00:27:48Straighten your wheel up, Lisa.
00:27:51What?
00:27:57Come on.
00:27:58You're a fucking knife together, Hogan.
00:28:00I can see that she's got it.
00:28:01She starts now, look, for example.
00:28:03She's nailed this bit.
00:28:05It's the last little bit.
00:28:06As soon as she gets near this barn, she goes into panic mode and goes,
00:28:09I don't want to hit the barn.
00:28:12Holy fuck.
00:28:15That's it.
00:28:17That's it.
00:28:19That's it.
00:28:20Yes!
00:28:22She smashed it!
00:28:37Great for you from up here, isn't it?
00:28:39Yeah.
00:28:43There is Caleb and his combine harvester.
00:28:48And then I am going to get all the grain in there
00:28:51and I'm going to bring it back to the barn.
00:28:56Oh, the light's on.
00:28:58Ready, Lisa?
00:28:59I'll be with you in two stacks.
00:29:06Shit.
00:29:07OK, the brakes are on.
00:29:09If you could try and line up under the straw robe, Lisa.
00:29:14We'll be doing it on the move.
00:29:16Are you sure?
00:29:18On the move?
00:29:19Yeah.
00:29:20Yes.
00:29:24OK, I can do this.
00:29:30Keep that trailer fully underneath that spout.
00:29:32I'll do the rest, all right?
00:29:40I'll do it.
00:29:40Just take it there like that.
00:29:42Perfect.
00:29:47Well done, Lisa.
00:29:49Look at that.
00:29:49Look at you!
00:29:55I did it!
00:29:56Whoo!
00:29:59Are you turning?
00:30:02Yes, you're turning!
00:30:09That is Barney in the barn.
00:30:13I'm so happy.
00:30:17So, Laszlo.
00:30:20An honest day's work is done.
00:30:23Yeah, catch you tomorrow.
00:30:36Oh my God!
00:30:39I'm full, Lisa.
00:30:41Where are you?
00:30:47It's your problem!
00:30:49Yeah, fucking broken down.
00:30:51Yeah, in a Lambo.
00:30:52Of course I have, yeah.
00:30:54Come by, yeah.
00:30:58Caleb, we are chucking.
00:31:00Second works.
00:31:03Last trip, Lisa.
00:31:06Yay!
00:31:07That's it for the spring party.
00:31:10Well done, you've done great.
00:31:14Lisa's doing amazing, don't get me wrong.
00:31:16But I'm missing Jeremy's voice over the radio.
00:31:19It's going to sound really soppy and everything.
00:31:22I don't miss his skill.
00:31:24I miss him as a friend being here, doing this together.
00:31:27This is our thing.
00:31:40No, no!
00:31:46Wait!
00:31:47Wait!
00:31:48Come on, can you tell me where a man might find a man?
00:31:51Yeah, pastor!
00:31:54Yeah, don't you tell me where a man might find a man?
00:32:00Good, good, good!
00:32:02Yes!
00:32:03Go, boy!
00:32:05Let's go, let's go!
00:32:13The first of Diddy Squat Farms' new apple trees.
00:32:22So this is the first field that we use the Agbot on,
00:32:25and where we put fewer seeds in,
00:32:27because they weren't competing with each other,
00:32:29they actually ended up the highest-yielding part of the field.
00:32:32Like, if you have 100 puppies from one dog,
00:32:35they're all gonna get less milk,
00:32:36whereas if you only have 10 puppies,
00:32:39they're gonna get better milk.
00:32:40What the fuck's going on? Why are we talking puppies?
00:32:54All this has got to go,
00:32:56so we can then put the durum wheat in here,
00:32:58because we've had to isolate the cows
00:33:00that have got suspected TB,
00:33:02where we'd normally put the durum wheat.
00:33:04I've gotta go, but my friend just didn't mind.
00:33:09Hey, hey, hey!
00:33:10Hey!
00:33:11Cat!
00:33:12Oh!
00:33:13Oh, my God!
00:33:16Take a load off, baby!
00:33:18Take a load off, baby!
00:33:20Richard!
00:33:21Richard, hand!
00:33:23Good man, James.
00:33:26Oh, no, you messed up!
00:33:29Can you ride a donkey?
00:33:31Of course you can, that's what they're made for!
00:33:33What they were made for putting to a farm?
00:33:34Have you never seen Mary and Jesus?
00:33:36Mary was on the donkey!
00:33:37No, she's lazy.
00:33:39Take a load off, baby!
00:33:42Take a load off, baby!
00:33:43The sheep are like, what are those?
00:33:45The donkey's like, what are those?
00:33:49Ah, sheep, stop it!
00:33:51Go!
00:33:52Oh, my God!
00:34:13Are you there?
00:34:15Jeremy?
00:34:18I have returned!
00:34:21You're back!
00:34:23I can see you!
00:34:26I have returned!
00:34:27Ooh!
00:34:28I'm back!
00:34:29That was bloody painful!
00:34:31Thank you very long!
00:34:32Ooh!
00:34:35My anus!
00:34:36I'm back.
00:34:37How are you feeling?
00:34:38Good.
00:34:39Yeah?
00:34:39Strong, yeah.
00:34:40No, strong.
00:34:41How'd it all go, alright?
00:34:42I won't know whether it's worked or not for...
00:34:45Till November, probably.
00:34:46Oh, okay.
00:34:46Well, you've just got to do, like, general blood tests and everything?
00:34:48Yeah, they do blood tests and things.
00:34:50Um, you know, the prostate.
00:34:5210% of it's dead.
00:34:54Oh, okay.
00:34:55The 10% with the cancer in it.
00:34:56What does that mean, then?
00:34:57They use, like, it's ultrasound, so...
00:35:00Have you ever got a magnifying glass on a piece of paper on a sunny day?
00:35:02Yeah, yeah, make it, yeah.
00:35:03Yeah, you can make that little spot.
00:35:05Or do it on, like, someone's sunbathing, do it there, it's fun.
00:35:07Yeah, yeah.
00:35:07Well, I wouldn't do that, but I'm not a young farmer.
00:35:09Anyway, they do that, but with sound waves.
00:35:12So they get sound waves and then direct them onto the cancer and blitz it.
00:35:17The only problem I've got, you know where the prostate is.
00:35:20Yeah, yeah.
00:35:21I'm fine standing up like this.
00:35:23And I'm fine sitting in, like, an armchair.
00:35:26But if you're in a chair that's down there...
00:35:29Is it a little bit touchy?
00:35:31When you have a wee, in my condition,
00:35:34it's accompanied by a high-pitched, keening squeal.
00:35:38Whee!
00:35:39Does it hurt?
00:35:40Oof!
00:35:41It's...
00:35:42Yeah.
00:35:43Yeah.
00:35:43Have you ever had a catheter?
00:35:45Weirdly not.
00:35:46Don't do it.
00:35:47It's not nice.
00:35:48I got circumcised.
00:35:49Yes, that's not the same thing.
00:35:51Oh.
00:35:55As I was back for the Durham wheat harvest,
00:35:58there was no need for Lisa to grain cart any more.
00:36:02But she loved it so much,
00:36:04she'd nicked one of Caleb's tractors
00:36:07and turned up for work as usual.
00:36:11Never done this before.
00:36:13Both of us grain carting.
00:36:15We are the A team.
00:36:17Jeremy coming right,
00:36:18we're now the B team.
00:36:21I've missed all this.
00:36:33This is well and truly shit.
00:36:36Yeah, well, I mean, I can see with my own eyes
00:36:40that it's, er, what's the combine say?
00:36:420.2 tonnes a hectare.
00:36:45A fifth of a tonne a hectare?
00:36:48Yeah.
00:36:49So six or seven is the average,
00:36:51and we're getting 0.2.
00:36:54Jesus Christ.
00:36:57It's gonna take him about a year and a half
00:36:59to fill the little combine up.
00:37:04After an eternity, Caleb was finally ready to offload.
00:37:08Er, Lisa?
00:37:11Where are you?
00:37:12I'm probably full in a minute.
00:37:14Amazing!
00:37:15Yeah, on my way.
00:37:22Erm...
00:37:23Yeah, so Lisa, I'll go on the way back down
00:37:24after this run here, yeah?
00:37:26Roger that.
00:37:28Caleb.
00:37:29Erm...
00:37:30I mean, I don't mind.
00:37:31I'm just wondering
00:37:31why you selected Lisa for this job and not me?
00:37:34Well, she's better at it than you, to be honest.
00:37:37Is she?
00:37:38Lisa, let's go to channel six,
00:37:40assuming this and Jeremy is down five.
00:37:42Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:37:51Ha, ha, ha.
00:37:52Well, Lisa, perfect again.
00:37:54Oh, my God.
00:37:56You are getting us, that is.
00:37:58How was all of it?
00:37:59It's mad.
00:38:02Hey, hold on.
00:38:02Have we finished this field?
00:38:04Yeah, this field's done, mate.
00:38:06So I was completely redundant?
00:38:09Thank you for showing up, though. It means a lot.
00:38:16As we moved into the next field...
00:38:24..a man arrived who I could now share medical war stories with.
00:38:29Ah, Gerald!
00:38:30Jeremy!
00:38:32How are you? You all right now?
00:38:34Yeah, I had the op.
00:38:36Yeah, great.
00:38:37Erm, no, just fingers crossed it's worked. You don't know yet.
00:38:40I'll tell you what, though.
00:38:41Catheter.
00:38:42Oh, my God.
00:38:44I'll tell you what, I see, you've got a car to cottage.
00:38:47It's going on four to five years.
00:38:49So I went to pull my hand down to pull it up.
00:38:52I just keep on bing, bing, bing, didn't it?
00:38:54Took all the skin right back.
00:38:56Oh, my God.
00:38:58You don't get many broncs going on at that time, I tell you.
00:39:04Honestly, no, that was the worst.
00:39:0670% of four now, Lisa.
00:39:08Roger that.
00:39:09You've got the injection swab in your bum,
00:39:11and you're sitting there as well.
00:39:13Oh.
00:39:13I'll tell you.
00:39:15Have I?
00:39:15Every time now, if I go in,
00:39:17I've seen one with as much jacket as that on before.
00:39:20Hot cross buns, I call them.
00:39:22As long as you've got that down to nil and early,
00:39:24you know you're laughing.
00:39:27Yeah.
00:39:29Lisa, you ready?
00:39:30Yeah, coming to get you.
00:39:32Funny enough, when I was led there and it slowed over the top,
00:39:35you know.
00:39:35Hang on.
00:39:37Oh, bloody hell.
00:39:38She's done it again.
00:39:44The Caleb and Lisa stitch-up carried on all day,
00:39:48despite my best efforts to break it.
00:39:53I'm going to drive alongside Caleb all the time,
00:39:57and then he's forced to unload his seed into my trailer.
00:40:03What are you going to do about that, Lisa?
00:40:05Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:40:12Hang on.
00:40:14Si?
00:40:16Jeremy wants to load.
00:40:18Lisa's going to block him off.
00:40:22Lisa, come on.
00:40:25Come on, guys.
00:40:43The following morning, I was desperate to do some grain carting.
00:40:47But first of all, I had to check on the animal hospital.
00:40:53Oh, your back line down again.
00:40:55Mind you, your head's up.
00:40:57That's good.
00:40:59Come on, you can fight off a bit of pneumonia.
00:41:02I did.
00:41:04Oh, up you get.
00:41:06That's good.
00:41:07That's good.
00:41:10Oh, end game.
00:41:13Oh, look.
00:41:14How are you today?
00:41:20Good bull.
00:41:22Good bull.
00:41:25You're lucky being able to do that.
00:41:29I can't do that.
00:41:30Not without squealing.
00:41:34I'll see you in a bit.
00:41:38Visit over, I went to join Caleb and Lisa
00:41:41as they were harvesting the very last field of 2025.
00:41:50I'm arriving at the field now.
00:41:51Where would you like me?
00:41:52Yeah, no, I'm going to wander on the east side.
00:41:55Yeah, look.
00:41:57Lisa has Q jumped again.
00:42:08Hello, you all right?
00:42:10So you're definitely in labour now?
00:42:13Yeah.
00:42:14Don't worry.
00:42:15How close are they then?
00:42:17On three.
00:42:18Five minutes.
00:42:19How close do you need them?
00:42:22Yeah, all right.
00:42:23That would be.
00:42:25Taylor's in labour.
00:42:27You're kidding.
00:42:30No.
00:42:31Shit, you've got to go.
00:42:34No, not yet.
00:42:34I've finished your spare up with me.
00:42:38You did hear that.
00:42:41Jesus, mate.
00:42:42Congratulations.
00:42:44Can you believe it?
00:42:45He's going to carry on harvesting
00:42:46even though Taylor's in labour.
00:42:48Can you tell us a third child, not the first?
00:42:50Can you tell he's a farmer
00:42:51and not working for the council?
00:42:55Well, how's she getting to the hospital?
00:42:58Well, they're only, every five minutes at the moment
00:43:00they're contracting,
00:43:01so she's got a bit of time, so...
00:43:03Who's with her?
00:43:06Er, no one.
00:43:09You just sometimes get muddled up
00:43:11between his partner and, like, cows.
00:43:15Oh, cows can manage.
00:43:17Yeah, cos they don't have much emotional intelligence.
00:43:21And they don't remember things like this.
00:43:25Girls do.
00:43:27In my experience.
00:43:30I'm calculating half an hour to finish this off, mate.
00:43:34Yeah, I think so, roughly, yeah.
00:43:35Do you know what you're having?
00:43:37Yeah, a little boy.
00:43:39Got a name?
00:43:41Yeah.
00:43:42What is it, Jeremy?
00:43:44Definitely fucking not.
00:43:48Just under 30 minutes later,
00:43:50the father-to-be was completing his very last strip.
00:43:55There it is.
00:43:58Woo!
00:44:00Harvest 20.95 complete.
00:44:03And let us never, ever repeat it.
00:44:12Very, best of luck.
00:44:14Best of luck.
00:44:14Thank you very much.
00:44:15Hit it.
00:44:15You better get a pack.
00:44:17We'll try and edit this bit out
00:44:19while you ignore the fact that your girlfriend was in labour.
00:44:22I'll send you a picture.
00:44:24Give him a love, yeah, I do.
00:44:25And a name.
00:44:29Well, hopefully we can end on a happy note with a new baby.
00:44:35Haven't had very many happy moments these last few weeks.
00:44:38That might be one of them.
00:44:39We'll see you next time.
00:44:50Although the harvest was complete,
00:44:53we obviously couldn't relax.
00:44:55Because there'd be the results to go through.
00:45:01And the whole farm was still on lockdown
00:45:04while we waited for a second test on the cow with suspected TB.
00:45:12However, there was a moment I'd been looking forward to.
00:45:19Because Hannah had spent the last few weeks
00:45:21doing a survey on diddly squat's bird population.
00:45:26And was now ready to share her findings.
00:45:33It's a bit American.
00:45:35This is all a bit American.
00:45:37It is a bit American, isn't it?
00:45:38I thought we were going to be sitting on the ground.
00:45:41Cheers.
00:45:41So, you've done your bird survey.
00:45:46I have. Do you want to know?
00:45:47Yes, I'm genuinely longing to know.
00:45:51OK, right.
00:45:52So, these little circles are all the singing species.
00:45:55So, you walk along all these hedges and listen.
00:45:58And every time I heard a species that's singing,
00:46:02I make a little note and then carry on walking.
00:46:05Great tit, chaffinch.
00:46:06Yeah.
00:46:07Blackbird.
00:46:07Yeah.
00:46:08Bt, blue tit.
00:46:09Yeah.
00:46:09Robin.
00:46:10Yellow hammer.
00:46:11Wood pigeon, skylark.
00:46:12Anyway, the point is, an average farm with average birds
00:46:16would have between 20 and 35 species.
00:46:18And you have...
00:46:2145?
00:46:22Yeah.
00:46:23We've got 45 different birds.
00:46:26Bloody hell.
00:46:27But that's not even the best bit.
00:46:28Oh, God.
00:46:29It gets better.
00:46:29Turn over the page.
00:46:31Da-da-da!
00:46:33This is the territory mapping of the whole corn bunting population on your farm.
00:46:38And you've never heard of corn bunting before you got here?
00:46:40No. I mean, I've been crying about these birds.
00:46:43These guys have lost between 83 and 86% of their whole population.
00:46:47They're completely extinct in Ireland.
00:46:49There are pockets of this country that they've just gone from.
00:46:52So, this location is quite a special little place.
00:46:55And more than 10 corn buntings is a kind of trophy-winning area.
00:47:01And then we've got one, two, three...
00:47:02We've got five.
00:47:03No, you've got 19.
00:47:04We've got millionteen.
00:47:06You've got 19.
00:47:07Whoop!
00:47:08So, this is...
00:47:09What you're saying is this farm is top few percent for birds.
00:47:14Yes.
00:47:15This is what's so exciting.
00:47:17So, what are we missing?
00:47:19I want to see a murmuration of starlings before I croak.
00:47:23OK, look.
00:47:23I'll just go, hi, starlings.
00:47:24Well, you know what I mean.
00:47:25Whatever we can do...
00:47:26How long have you got before you croak?
00:47:28I don't know.
00:47:29Well, let me know because that's a long-term plan.
00:47:31Is it?
00:47:32Could be your deathbed finale of the show.
00:47:34Oh.
00:47:37Erm...
00:47:38Oh, can I show you the end thing?
00:47:40I thought I would do one thing where I linked a bird to you,
00:47:44Caleb, Charlie and Lisa.
00:47:46For reasons. I've got reasons.
00:47:47Go on then.
00:47:48Have you drawn all this?
00:47:50I know, I'm really lame.
00:47:51I'll do you last.
00:47:52Charlie looks quite like a grey partridge.
00:47:55He does.
00:47:55Got that kind of English gent thing going on.
00:47:57He stands like a colonel.
00:47:59Yeah.
00:48:00When he's standing still, he looks like a colonel.
00:48:01And he's got a perfectly symmetrical circular face like the partridge.
00:48:05Yeah.
00:48:05Caleb is the hairstyle and he's blonde.
00:48:07He's a bit of the king of the castle of the farm.
00:48:09Do you think Caleb's a yellow hammer?
00:48:10Can't we just say a ginger hammer?
00:48:12Yeah, absolutely.
00:48:13Ginger hammer.
00:48:14Lisa, Kestrel.
00:48:16Beautifully elegant.
00:48:17Doesn't take any shit.
00:48:18She is like a Kestrel.
00:48:20And then this one.
00:48:22Skylark.
00:48:23National Treasure and Gobshite.
00:48:25I can hear them everywhere across the farm.
00:48:27They're so gobby.
00:48:29Quite like being a Skylark.
00:48:31Yeah.
00:48:32Not sure about the National Treasure bit.
00:48:35Erm...
00:48:36Oh, well.
00:48:36Anyway, listen.
00:48:37Thank you for that, Hannah.
00:48:38That is...
00:48:40Genuinely made my heart sing.
00:48:42Thanks for having me on your farm.
00:48:47Right on cue.
00:48:48They just started singing.
00:48:50What, who?
00:48:50What house?
00:48:51The Skylarks.
00:48:52They're calling.
00:48:54They're saying,
00:48:54Thank you, Jeremy.
00:49:06Sadly, the elation I felt about the birds of diddly squat was short-lived.
00:49:11Because soon, it was time for our pregnant cow to have her second TB test.
00:49:18Which would be carried out by one of Dilwin's associates.
00:49:22Sam.
00:49:23Morning, Jeremy.
00:49:25Sam.
00:49:25Um, Dilwin's still away, is he?
00:49:27Dilwin's away.
00:49:28Sam kicked off by reminding us about our current TB stranglehold.
00:49:33If she goes today, the rest of the herd will be tested again in a month's time.
00:49:37And then probably again, 60 days later, so you're under...
00:49:41So this...
00:49:41Your farm is under restrictions until that point.
00:49:43Erm...
00:49:44I believe the test is a bit haphazard.
00:49:46For what reason?
00:49:48Well, you've got those tweezers on you.
00:49:49Yeah.
00:49:50So you get a lump.
00:49:52This is what you do.
00:49:54Yeah.
00:49:54There's a lump...
00:49:55Yep.
00:49:55..on the cow's neck.
00:49:57And you walk up to it and you squeeze it, yeah?
00:50:00Mm-hmm.
00:50:00And then it tells you how big the lump is, because there's a measuring bit here, yeah?
00:50:05But if you pull it down hard, or not hard, you get a different reading.
00:50:10And the cow's doing this while you're trying to do it.
00:50:13And then you just go, well, there's a...
00:50:15And there's only need to be a millimetre in it.
00:50:17We have to lose a cow, shut the whole farm down.
00:50:20And that is how it's measured.
00:50:22Takes a lot of practice.
00:50:24Well, I still think it's a bit haphazard.
00:50:28Nevertheless, this is the test we were going to have to do.
00:50:32She's a very, very pretty cow, and pregnant with twins.
00:50:36How far pregnant is she?
00:50:38Erm...
00:50:39When did she do?
00:50:39Five months.
00:50:40When will we know?
00:50:42In about one minute.
00:50:44Ooh!
00:50:44God, shoot!
00:50:45Can you hold it?
00:50:49Good girl.
00:50:50Good girl.
00:51:00I need to look at my char.
00:51:08So, I've re-measured both lumps today, or both top and bottom.
00:51:12Is this last time?
00:51:13Yeah, last time here, seven and nine.
00:51:15Seven millimetres, nine millimetres.
00:51:16This time, it's 11 millimetres and 40 millimetres.
00:51:20So, I look at my chart.
00:51:24She is...
00:51:27She's IR again.
00:51:30What?
00:51:32What's that mean?
00:51:33Inconclusive again.
00:51:34Sorry, inconclusive again.
00:51:36She stays in the barn?
00:51:38No, no.
00:51:39That...
00:51:40That means that she's going to have to go.
00:51:43Because she's effectively inconclusive twice.
00:51:47Yeah.
00:51:48Is that absolute?
00:51:48Yeah, she's inconclusive twice.
00:51:50So, she's treated...
00:51:51So, she has to be slaughtered even though she's inconclusive?
00:51:53Yeah.
00:51:54She's treated as a reactor today.
00:51:56The problem you've got with...
00:51:57That is like, I don't understand any of these rules.
00:52:00That seems to me like a hung jury.
00:52:03You know, it's six and six, and then the judge goes,
00:52:07that's inconclusive, so we're going to execute you.
00:52:09That is...
00:52:11That's exactly what's happening here.
00:52:13Erm, can I ask you a question?
00:52:15Can we keep her in here until she has her calves,
00:52:18and will the calves have TB?
00:52:20That's a good question.
00:52:21Yeah, part of the reason I asked how pregnant she was,
00:52:23if she was in the last month,
00:52:25I think they give the option of keeping her calving down here,
00:52:28but because she's only five months pregnant,
00:52:30they will take her, er, for slaughter, yeah.
00:52:33Oh.
00:52:35You told me...
00:52:36What are you...? What are you...?
00:52:37Seriously.
00:52:40Jesus Christ.
00:52:42Why do people farm?
00:52:46Why?
00:52:49All right.
00:52:50Thanks, Sam.
00:53:00The next morning, I braced myself for another moment
00:53:03I'd been dreading.
00:53:05Because Charlie now had the numbers in
00:53:08for our drought-stricken harvest.
00:53:11So...
00:53:12That is what we're expecting.
00:53:14£37,000.
00:53:15So that was the forecast.
00:53:17But, erm,
00:53:18this doesn't factor in the cost of leasing the Agbot
00:53:20or the Robodroid
00:53:21or installing this system, does it?
00:53:23Er, yes.
00:53:24Oh, it does?
00:53:25Yeah.
00:53:25That was how much we thought we'd make from farming...
00:53:28£37,800 you thought would be our...
00:53:31Yeah.
00:53:32Which would have been quite a good year.
00:53:33If you turn it over...
00:53:39Yeah.
00:53:39So the cost of farming this year has been £5,152.
00:53:44That's one way of saying it.
00:53:46Jeremy, you've lost £5,152.
00:53:49Yeah.
00:53:51And this is weather-related.
00:53:52Yeah.
00:53:53So we got 30% less wheat than you were expecting
00:53:55because of the drought.
00:53:56Yeah.
00:53:56We got nearly 40% less barley,
00:53:5945% less durum than we budgeted.
00:54:01So yields were down.
00:54:03I mean, this is bloody dispiriting, Charlie.
00:54:06It is dispiriting.
00:54:07I mean, it was pretty depressing in year one
00:54:09when we made a profit of £144.
00:54:13But here we are in year six and we're losing £5,000.
00:54:16Yeah.
00:54:17And we did it so bloody well.
00:54:19Yeah, I mean, that's the...
00:54:20That's the really galling thing, you know...
00:54:22I know, all of this, all of the technology that we employed...
00:54:25Exactly.
00:54:26The crops went in really well.
00:54:27With the precision drilling, the precision muck spreading,
00:54:30knowing where our good soil is, where our bad soil is.
00:54:33Nutrition, just right, and...
00:54:35I mean, everything...
00:54:36Yeah.
00:54:37...was bob on.
00:54:38Yeah.
00:54:38So even when you do everything...
00:54:41Yeah.
00:54:41...right...
00:54:42Yeah.
00:54:42...and you employ all the best, latest technology,
00:54:45you lose £5,000.
00:54:47Yeah.
00:54:48Just simply because it doesn't rain for 15 weeks.
00:54:55I mean, I'm now going to have to give you
00:54:57£70,000 of my own pounds to pay for the seed
00:55:02and the fertiliser for next year.
00:55:04Yeah.
00:55:05And the weather might come and ruin it all anyway.
00:55:09I'm betting £70,000 that the weather's nice next year.
00:55:12I actually need £75, cos we lost £5.
00:55:17All right, Charlie, thank you for dropping round
00:55:19with your usual cheerful news.
00:55:25I actually thought we'd break even. I didn't think we'd lose.
00:55:32Well...
00:55:33Now, look at the bright side.
00:55:35We don't have to give Rachel Reeves any of our money.
00:55:43Normally, a poor harvest result draws a line
00:55:46under the bad news for the year.
00:55:50But not this time.
00:55:52Because we still had to watch our pregnant TB cow
00:55:55go off to slaughter.
00:56:01That's when she was just born?
00:56:02Yeah, that was when she was just born.
00:56:04That was our first...
00:56:05She is our first ever cow, and I remember taking a picture.
00:56:09Gosh, she's bonny, isn't she? She's just gloriously...
00:56:11Sidley Squat's first ever calf.
00:56:14And I think we called her poppy.
00:56:15We did.
00:56:22Good girl, steady.
00:56:24Now, steady.
00:56:39I can't get my head round it.
00:56:41I think the system is wrong.
00:56:45With Covid, they developed a vaccine in, what, 12 months
00:56:48after it was first identified?
00:56:50Yeah.
00:56:51Bovine TB's been around for centuries,
00:56:53and they haven't invented anything yet.
00:56:55I don't believe it.
00:56:57You know, if you're a beef or a dairy farmer,
00:56:59you're 65 years old,
00:57:00you've grown up with bovine TB,
00:57:02you get it and then it goes and it comes and it goes,
00:57:04and you kind of get used to it.
00:57:05But I'm new to this.
00:57:07I'm new to it.
00:57:09It's a shit feeling.
00:57:10No, it's not that it's a shit feeling.
00:57:12I'm actually pissed off,
00:57:13because I don't accept this.
00:57:15I don't accept that the testing is sensible
00:57:18and I don't believe that this slaughtering is the answer.
00:57:22And I don't believe that science cannot work out how to vaccinate cows.
00:57:28I don't believe any of that.
00:57:30Because I'm new.
00:57:31Yeah, yeah.
00:57:32Because, you know, you, even you at your age,
00:57:34and you and every beef and dairy farmer I've talked to goes,
00:57:38well, you know, it's just one of those facts of farming life.
00:57:40And I'm standing here as a new boy going, how can it be?
00:57:43How can it be?
00:57:51The woes of the isolation pen still weren't over.
00:57:56Because despite all the medication,
00:57:58our sickly calf wasn't getting any better.
00:58:02And this meant we had to call out yet another vet.
00:58:06Charlotte.
00:58:08She's not doing very well today.
00:58:11You can already see her ears are down and her breathing's up
00:58:14and she's been coughing.
00:58:16Do you think she was born with something then?
00:58:18Because we've tried everything and we've done everything that we can.
00:58:21It sounds like it's been a bit of a failure of passive transfer,
00:58:24which basically means that, so in humans they have,
00:58:27they get all their protein, the antibodies,
00:58:29which develops the immune system from the uterus.
00:58:31Whereas in cows they get it only from the colostrum,
00:58:34which is the first milk.
00:58:35So I think she's had a bit of a tough start.
00:58:38So the other calves took all her colostrum.
00:58:40Yeah.
00:58:40By the time she learned or was strong enough to get up there.
00:58:43Yeah.
00:58:44She completely missed it.
00:58:45Oh, shit.
00:58:46So that means that any bug that she's exposed to,
00:58:48she won't develop any form of immunity to.
00:58:50So despite you throwing everything at her with antibiotics
00:58:53and painkillers, she won't fight it.
00:58:55So what do we do next?
00:58:57Honestly, I think we need to be kind
00:58:59and put her out of her misery and elect her euthanase.
00:59:04I'm really sorry.
00:59:06How does one go about, as you say, euthanising?
00:59:09So effectively it's an overdose of a sedative,
00:59:11so it slows her breathing and slows her heart rate
00:59:13and eventually it stops.
00:59:15But how's she going to react to the mother?
00:59:17It depends.
00:59:18Some think it's good for them to see them go,
00:59:21so they know it's final.
00:59:25Come on, sweet ox.
00:59:27Well, it might laugh.
00:59:28Good girl.
00:59:30Good girl.
00:59:31That's it.
00:59:32That's it.
00:59:33Steady.
00:59:33All right.
00:59:34Come on, my love.
00:59:39I know.
00:59:40That's it.
00:59:41Good girl.
00:59:41She's gone.
00:59:42I'm sure I hold her head.
00:59:42That's perfect.
00:59:43If you can pop her ear out of the way.
00:59:47You ready?
00:59:49Yeah.
00:59:54All right.
00:59:55So just...
00:59:55Good girl.
00:59:57I'm going to flip her to the other side
00:59:58so we can go in that other vein.
01:00:07Good girl.
01:00:10She's gone.
01:00:12She's gone?
01:00:12Yeah.
01:00:15Well done, Mum.
01:00:18Well done, guys.
01:00:19That's never easy.
01:00:22Thanks, Charlotte.
01:00:22You're welcome.
01:00:23Thanks.
01:00:24Take care.
01:00:43Despite it feeling like there was nothing to celebrate,
01:00:47the Diddly Squat gang met up in a field called the Big Quiet.
01:00:52For our traditional end of year picnic.
01:00:58This time, lunching on all British pizzas we were now making at the pub.
01:01:04Here we go.
01:01:05Have some pizza, Gerald.
01:01:06Who'd like some more meatball?
01:01:08And after we'd finished eating,
01:01:10we got to talking about our anus horriblis.
01:01:15So we started the year and I had coronary heart disease,
01:01:18ended it with me with cancer.
01:01:21And then in between we had Rachel Reeves,
01:01:25and then we had a drought,
01:01:29dismal yields,
01:01:32and now we've got TB.
01:01:34So I don't know the results on the TB then, so what is the result?
01:01:39The one with twin cars?
01:01:41The one with twins.
01:01:42Oh, no.
01:01:43Honestly, everything, Gerald, the whole year.
01:01:47You know it's the first year we've made an actual loss on the farm.
01:01:50Yeah.
01:01:51Yeah.
01:01:51Yeah.
01:01:52But we can dwell as much as we like
01:01:56on all the bad things that have happened on the farm.
01:02:00I think it's probably better now,
01:02:02at the end of another year,
01:02:04to focus on things that have happened that have been good.
01:02:15Puppies.
01:02:15Puppies were good.
01:02:16Yeah.
01:02:17She did have a lot of puppies.
01:02:18She did well.
01:02:19She did brilliantly.
01:02:20Caleb had a baby.
01:02:21Another baby.
01:02:23Is that good?
01:02:23A baby?
01:02:25I'm going to throw in the easy care sheep.
01:02:28That's a good... Yeah, no.
01:02:30You've even bought some.
01:02:31I've got 30.
01:02:31You, having said,
01:02:32I've been blogging sheep,
01:02:33I don't know what they're doing.
01:02:34No, I do hate sheep.
01:02:35I think they're fucking awful,
01:02:36but easy care sheep are amazing.
01:02:38Yeah.
01:02:38Easy care's lambs, they're cracking.
01:02:40They're really good.
01:02:40Yeah, really good.
01:02:41No, no.
01:02:41That was good.
01:02:43The underground mapping,
01:02:44really, really useful, we think.
01:02:46And if we get a year with some rain and some sunshine,
01:02:49as opposed to one or the other,
01:02:50we'll be able to make some meaningful conclusions.
01:02:53So that was good.
01:02:54The agbot was good.
01:02:56Was it?
01:02:57Yeah.
01:02:57I know you didn't like it.
01:02:59So, here we are,
01:03:00we're finding lots of good things.
01:03:02Is there anything else?
01:03:04When will we know
01:03:06if the treatment's worked?
01:03:08I don't know,
01:03:08I've got a blood test to do.
01:03:09There'll be a blood test
01:03:10and then we'll know.
01:03:11Not for another few weeks.
01:03:16Come on, cheer up.
01:03:17Probably did work.
01:03:19Just stare at me.
01:03:21I was in a bad way when you went away.
01:03:24No, I just thought,
01:03:24where am I going to send my invoice to?
01:03:25Exactly.
01:03:39Hello?
01:03:41No, we didn't even go off.
01:03:44We didn't even go off.
01:03:45I had to switch on to silent,
01:03:47so...
01:03:48I'm going to take one even switch off.
01:03:52Should we call it a wrap?
01:03:53Oh, no, I can't.
01:03:55Technology.
01:04:04I have to be honest,
01:04:06we did wrap the...