The old man was full of jokes, always speaking in a yellow accent, but when he was really emotional, he was very serious.
Charlie: So, £90.000 lower from the same area. Which is quite incredible. So. you know.
Jeremy: Well, "incredible" is one word. That is £90.000 down.
Charlie: Yeah. It's enormous. Forty percent lower.
Jeremy: £90.000 gone because of the weather. So where are the costs, because how much... Here are the costs then, so we spent £14.000 on seed. £34.000 on fertilizer and £20.000 on sprays.
Charlie: So, £68.601. And then there's £68.457 of costs. That's Kaleb, that's the machinery. So you've made £144 profit from the arable farm.
Jeremy: So farming seven days a week for a year, on a 1000-acre farm has generated an income of £144?
Charlie: Correct. Fortunately, at the moment, we have this subsidy. When that goes...
Jeremy: What are farmers going to do? I mean, honestly, what are they going to do? The ones who don't have Amazon firm crews following them around and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire to top up the income? I mean, what do you do when the subsidy starts to go down?
Charlie: There will be... there gonna be a sea change to the rurally, you know, the countryside. There's be 30 percent less farmers, probably.
The figure of 144 pounds is a bit too bleak. Including subsidies and excluding the cost of reusable machinery, the income is still very high, but after all, with such a large piece of land, ordinary farmers are completely dependent on the sky.
In the end, Kaleb is so good that it makes people cry, and it is simply the representative of truth, goodness and beauty.
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