Farming

1. Britain is a proud agricultural nation. The earliest British farms date all the way back to 1867.

2. Organic farmers have been proven to have the same nutritional value as farmers grown using pesticides.

3. Animal Farm by George Orwell was about a bunch of critters taking over a farm. But it was really a scathing parable of the Clinton administration.   

4. The Darling Buds of May followed the exploits of farming family the Larkins.  But it was really a scathing parable of the Russian Revolution. 

5. Due to the increased demand of an ever growing population and the continuous need for competitive pricing amongst big supermarket chains, many of Britain's farmers have fallen upon hard times lately. Many even having to sell their holiday homes in the Caribbean and pawn the diamonds from their pimped out tractors.

6. In the 1990s farmers forced cannibalism upon their cows, when in order to save money on expensive cow food, like grass, they fed minced beef to their cattle. This caused BSE, or mad cow disease. The diseased animals were then slaughtered and sold for human consumption, resulting in the illnesses human form; Creutzfeltd-Jakob Disease. But don't worry the condition lays dormant for 60 years so we've got ages till we have to worry about it.

7. Many farms in the UK go back generations. This is why even though it makes far more economical sense to import most crops from abroad, and the land taken up by farms would resolve the housing crisis which will plague us for the next 20 years, it's still really important to subsidise British farms with tax payers money.

8. Farming is a dying industry in Britain. If you were to go back just a couple of millenia, a staggering 7 out of 10 people were farmers, where as in today's Britain it is only 1 in every 450,000 people. Yet the BBC still churn out Country File like anyone actually gives half a fuck.

9. When you think of a farmer you tend to imagine an out of touch, wealthy, slightly racist and not ashamed to hide it, hick, who shoots anyone who comes within a mile of his shitty field with a dog. But some are really cool because Luke Skywalker was a sort of farmer with his uncle Owen in New Hope, but granted his heart wasn't in it.

10. The most farmed crop in the world is corn. Every year over 75 trillion tonnes are harvested. If all that corn were to be grown in one field it would need to be 89 times bigger than the whole world.