Video: Easton and Otley College takes YouTube by storm with rap music video based on Combine Harvester by The Wurzels making farming ‘cool’

Easton and Otley College have officially launched a video aimed at attracting more young people into farming. Archant

A music video launched by a Suffolk college to get more young people in farming has become an online hit.

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Students and staff at Easton and Otley College were filmed over the summer dancing to a rap version of the 1976 No. 1 hit The Combine Harvester by The Wurzels.

It was choreographed by two professional dancers, including a former body double for singer Jennifer Lopez, and it has proved a hit on YouTube, attracting more than 12,000 views in just a week.

Clare Dyble, director of marketing and enterprise at the college, said: “The video has been tweeted by The Wurzels, so we are very pleased with that. The aim of it is to get the message out there that food and farming is quite cool.”

She helped write the new lyrics and added: “The message was about the ageing population in the farming industry. The workforce is getting older and there is a skills shortage. We are trying to attract people into farming and to show them that it is a viable career. It is no longer about an old man on a tractor – these are very complicated machines today.”

To find out more about farming and other courses, visit an information day at the Otley campus between 4-7pm on Friday or 10am-2pm on Saturday, or visit: www.eastonotley.ac.uk