Jeremy Clarkson shares bleak and very blunt Diddly Squat update amid UK heatwaves
Jeremy Clarkson has shared a rather bleak and blunt update into life at Diddly Squat following the recent heatwaves.
As the country gears up for its fifth heatwave of 2026, Clarkson, 66, shared a screenshot showing the weather forecast for Chipping Norton, where his farm is based, which had a very warm high of 29C yesterday (Sunday 9 August).
And he confirmed that the current weather situation hasn't been ideal for growing crops in the UK.
Alongside the screenshot, Clarkson wrote: “Harvest already f***ed. May as well just enjoy it now.”
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Well, that’s one way to look at it.
Chipping Norton, in Oxfordshire, could hit highs of up 33C this week as Brits get set to bask in yet another heatwave.
Clarkson’s 1,000 acre Diddly Squat farm has previously grown a range of different produce, including wheat, barely, potatoes, rapeseed, and mustard.
However, this year, he revealed that he had left around 200 acres without crops as he believed growing either wheat or barley would have led to big financial losses.
Just last month, Clarkson opened up about the impact the ongoing hot and dry weather was having in his column for The Sun, saying it had left him feeling ‘scared’.
The TV personality wrote: "Since I started farming seven years ago, the harvest has always been a nail-biting affair because you have to stop when the grain is too wet. Drizzle, dew and even humidity can halt proceedings for days.
"This year, though, I have a new problem. The grain is too dry.
"It's Thursday as I write this and I should be out there in the tractor, but I'm stuck. And genuinely scared.
"Because all it would take is a discarded cigarette end, or the spark from a piece of faulty equipment and in a matter of moments, my whole crop would be turned into ash.
"A year's work, literally, up in smoke.”
Clarkson warned that it was currently becoming ‘simply impossible’ for farmers to make money from growing food and said that could lead to them being forced to use their land for other reasons.
“It’s the same story for farmers across the whole country, so you can kiss goodbye to our green and pleasant land,” he warned.
Last August, Clarkson said the lack of ‘normal weather’ was causing major issues, writing on X that it ‘never stopped raining in 2024 and never started in 2025’.
Speaking back then, he wrote: “It looks like this year’s harvest will be catastrophic.
“That should be a worry for anyone who eats food. If a disaster on this scale had befallen any other industry, there would be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth.”
He also noted that he was in a better position than a lot of other farmers thanks to his farm shop, pub and Amazon Prime TV show, telling one follower: “Most farms don’t have TV shows to keep them going.”
Clarkson isn’t the only person to issue a warning about the situation.
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) said last week that the country could face food shortages in the autumn due to the low levels of rainfall and excessive temperatures.
Topics: Jeremy Clarkson, Clarkson's Farm, Weather
Claire Reid