BBC Countryfile star dealt devastating blow just minutes into latest show

BBC Countryfile viewers were near devastated for a workplace aft it was revealed they had been dealt a immense stroke portion harvesting crops, conscionable minutes into the show

A Countryfile conception delivered a harsh stroke conscionable minutes into todays BBC episode.

Today's amusement dived into the challenges of harvest harvesting arsenic Autumn rolls in, taking audiences to a Colchester, Essex workplace specialising successful murphy crops. But it didn't instrumentality agelong for the communicative to crook sober erstwhile the hardships faced by the farmers were highlighted.

The commentary provided the lowdown connected the dire straits affecting spud growers nationwide: "It's been a pugnacious clip for murphy farmers crossed the UK. Too overmuch rainfall successful immoderate areas, excessively small rainfall successful different areas, coupled with the rising outgo of fertiliser has meant harvests person been deed hard this year. So however are they getting on? ".

Cutting implicit to the cultivation duo, viewers heard firsthand astir their experiences this season. Robert elaborate the standard of operations, saying, "In total, we workplace an country of astir 3 and a fractional 1000 acres," portion Laura confessed to however "stressful" the enactment tin be, noting, "We're perpetually looking astatine the weather.", reports the Express.

He relayed their urgency: "Now you're connected a contention against the timepiece and the upwind earlier it turns. The lone mode we tin mitigate that is to person the capableness to unreserved that erstwhile the upwind is bully but we person to put for that."

Despite the accrued concern necessary, this proactive strategy stands arsenic their champion accidental to guarantee a lucrative yield.

Upon returning to the homestead to measure whether their machinery could grip the harvest, however, the amusement delivered immoderate much unfortunate updates.

Robert detailed: "March, April and May were precise bedewed truthful that delayed the planting and delayed the harvest. A harvest of potatoes being precise intensive is astir £4,000 per acres to grow. If you compared that to wheat, that's £500 an acre. It's rather a leap. You tin soon find yourself successful a nonaccomplishment making business. Potatoes has go a precise precocious hazard crop."

He revealed that 75 to 80 per cent of the harvest was already retired the ground, but the workplace workers delivered immoderate unwelcome quality - the tract is excessively bedewed to harvest - and frankincense they couldn't get the harvest up.

"We're gonna determination 40 minutes down the roadworthy and effort again," helium elaborated, describing however the trailers couldn't navigate done the mud. Robert felt "frustrated" by the upwind displacement but it wasn't an "unsuprising" encounter, fixed the hold successful planting.

In summation to increasing potatoes, the workplace besides produces crisps successful an effort to support their income dependable passim the year.

Countryfile airs connected BBC One