now that Clarkson's Farm is focused on the pub, Jeremy has switched to an autobot to deal with the fields. Who can blame him? It takes roughly 30 hours to prepare and plant the farm’s 200 acres.

 

Jeremy has chosen to lease an AgBot T2 - a state‑of‑the‑art, nine‑tonne autonomous tractor built with German engineering.

"It normally takes 20 hours with a 3m cultivator to prepare the 200 acres we use every year for growing pasta and lager. And then it takes about ten hours to plant the actual seeds. That’s 30 hours of me just sitting there, in a bouncy tractor, going up and down endlessly. And even though I’ve now had five years of practice, I’m still not very good at it.

Onlookers in my local village have said to me that while the AgBot appears to be impressive, it does take some of the romance out of farming. I’m sure they’re right. It does, in the same way that back in the 1920s the tractor took out some of the horse-based romance."

https://www.gbnews.com/celebrity/jeremy-clarkson-angers-locals-tractor-farming
https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/jeremy-clarkson-farm-tractor-gvskhhs9l