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How much Jeremy Clarkson has made from farming ahead of Clarkson's Farm series three

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Published 11:47 2 Feb 2024 GMT

How much Jeremy Clarkson has made from farming ahead of Clarkson's Farm series three

Clarkson's Farm season three may be on its way, but it's been a tough year at Diddly Squat Farm

Jess Battison

Jess Battison

Ahead of the series three release of his hit show, Jeremy Clarkson previously broke down how much he has made from his farm.

Prime Video recently announced that new episodes of Clarkson’s Farm would premiere on 3 May.

And it seems we’ll see the former Top Gear host face a number of challenges on his Diddly Squat Farm as ‘Britain’s most unlikely farmer’ tries to make his Cotswolds spot a success.

Back in the autumn of 2023, Clarkson bemoaned about how bad the year had been In his column in The Telegraph.

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And aside from his usual ranting, he did go into some detail about how much he actually earns as a farmer.

Farming is tough, it is often thankless, and it relies a lot on stuff that you have to predict well in advance, and have absolutely no control whatsoever over.

The weather being chief among those factors.

In 2023, Clarkson claims that most of his crops either failed tests or failed altogether, meaning that he’s chucked a load of cash at the famous farm with very little to show for it.

A new season of Clarkson's Farm will premiere in May.
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Explaining what happened, he said: “This year, though, it was noticeably bad. Very bad.

“And what made it worse is that I normally invest maybe £40,000 in seeds, fertiliser and sprays.

“But last year, thanks to the war in Ukraine and the inflation that resulted, I had to invest £110,000.

“And then, having done that, all I could do was hope the weather would be good. Which it wasn’t.

“In my first year of farming I made a profit of £114.

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“That will look like a dream result when I get the figures for this year.”

Clarkson went on to describe 2023 as a ‘disaster’ for farmers, and revealed that he’d even considered selling up the farm.

He explained: “I’ve tried farming conventionally and it didn’t work. I’ve tried diversifying and that hasn’t really worked either.

Season 3 is coming.
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“And I’ve tried with sheep and pigs and cows and that has been a bit of a disaster as well.

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“So I arrived at a crossroads. And was not sure which way to turn.

“I could sell the farm and earn far more from the interest than I do from growing bread and beer, and vegetable oil.

“But I like having it and for very good reasons there are no death duties on farmland.

“So my children like me having it too.

“This means I have to hang on to it, but what then? Do nothing?

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“That would be heartbreaking. So I have to do something. But what?”

At the end of his article, he reveals that the fertiliser for next year’s farming has already been bought and his helper Kaleb Cooper has been put to work, so ‘the farming cycle has begun all over again’.

Hopefully 2024 will be a better year for all the farmers out there who are toiling away.

Featured Image Credit: Prime Video

Topics: Money, Jeremy Clarkson, Celebrity, TV and Film, Clarkson's Farm

Jess Battison
Jess Battison

Jess is a Senior Journalist with a love of all things pop culture. Her main interests include asking everyone in the office what they're having for tea, waiting for a new series of The Traitors and losing her voice at a Beyoncé concert. She graduated with a first in Journalism from City, University of London in 2021.

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