Kaleb Cooper "can't stand sheep", as his song suggests - but now Jeremy Clarkson , who'd been equally ambivalent about them, has bought a brand new flock. After discovering that lamb prices are currently "high", Clarkson's Farm favourite Jeremy couldn't resist seeing a business opportunity - and he put aside his previous uncertainty about owning sheep. Despite handing his last flock over to a local shepherd in despair and "vowing there and then I'd never have sheep again", he is now looking forward to fooling Kaleb.
"I've been told that it's unwise to put cows in a field where EasyCare sheep [a breed designed for low-input farming] have been because they will eat the discarded wool, which does terrible things to some of their stomachs," he warned. However, Jeremy jokingly gloated in his latest column for The Times that he's "certain" an unsuspecting Kaleb doesn't realise. "When the sheep move on from their field and he puts the shorthorn [cows] in there, I can pull an incredulous face and wonder out loud how he can call himself a farmer if he didn't know that.
It'll be my first ever farming win," he exclaimed. "Of course, you might think that by writing this here, I've given the game away," he continued. "Not so.
Because that's the other thing I know about Kaleb. He doesn't read the newspapers!" The banter between Jeremy and Kaleb is a long-standing chuckle, with the latter frequently quipping that his co-star is "useless" and sneering at his abilities as a farmer. Now it cou.
