Farming star Kaleb Cooper has opened up about the challenges faced by farmers post Brexit and he explained how he can only pay himself 50p per hour. The 24-year-old farming contractor from Chipping Norton is best known from Clarkson's Farm, and recognised for his passion for farming, as well as his patient and hilarious approach to working with Jeremy Clarkson on Diddly Squat farm.
However, since being put in the spotlight Kaleb has decided to step out of Jeremy's shadow and start his own venture by purchasing eight calves. The father-of-two explained that it is his dream to be able to run his own farm in Oxford, but also shared how tough it is to be a farmer in Britain at the moment, reports the Daily Mirror.
Whilst on the Performance People podcast hosted by Ben and Georgie Ainslie, Kaleb said: "When I'm working for myself, when I'm feeding my calves, I bought eight calves, it's a little bit of a new business idea that I'm doing. And then you feed them on milk which costs me about £200 a calf and then selling them at nine months, trying to get a profit, trying to see if it will work you know.
“But, I worked out the other day how much my hourly rate is. I pay myself 50p an hour so then I can make money. But if I put myself at £10 an hour I don't make money, I lose money on the calves."
He continued: "My main goal is by far to buy my own farm, you know, and then that is where the dream is. The day I wake up on my own farm, walk out the front door and go ‘On that field there, I'm gonna plant wheat.’
"Not because anyone tells me to because simply I want to. And then I can go right in that barn there, this year we're gonna go and get some pigs …and I'm going to try and make money out of that. That is when the dream is complete.”
Last year Kaleb released his first book titled "The World According to Kaleb" In his book he shared his thoughts on big issues, fun facts about farming as well as his ever-changing hairstyles. The book became hugely popular and a Sunday Times Bestseller, with many readers enjoying Kaleb's hilarious opinions and rants.
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