Lifelong British farmer gives honest thoughts on Jeremy Clarkson after watching Clarkson's Farm season five

A British farmer has given his verdict on the latest season of Clarkson's Farm and it probably won't be much of a surprise to hear he found it 'fantastic'.

After spending much of the previous season away from Diddly Squat Farm trying to sort out his pub, The Farmer's Dog, season five has seen Jeremy Clarkson back on the farm a lot more.

Fans of the show have been glowing about seeking Clarkson and the Diddly Squat crew spending more time on the farm again, though the presenter warned us the last couple of episodes were going to be a tough watch.

Many would have expected that was because of the trailers suggesting there would be a TB outbreak among his herd of cows, but Clarkson revealed he had been diagnosed with cancer.

Speaking to LADbible's Brenna Cooper, Bristol based farmer Harry Churchill said Clarkson's Farm had inspired him to share content from his own farm, calling Clarkson 'so inspiring' and saying he was 'a perfect example' of educating people on the importance of British farming.

"I think they've really tackled some fantastic things in this whole series," Harry said of the latest offerings of Clarkson's Farm, which saw Jeremy bid farewell to his beloved pigs, invest in easy-birth sheep and learn more about new farming techniques and technologies.

Harry's a big fan of the way Clarkson has improved as a farmer and his continued efforts to promote British produce, especially in his pub.

He said: "Slowly but surely, I would say that he has become and morphed into a full-fledged farmer. He knows his stuff better than from the first season,100 percent.

"I think the big thing is he's wanting to support and grow the industry and get British farming on the map. What he's done with his pub is fantastic, and showing those challenges of what he's facing with that.

"For example, the amount of cups that he was getting stolen, all that, he's not without adversity, he's still going above and beyond to try and produce products for the farm shop and the pub no matter what."

Saying he thought it was a 'fantastic season', Harry found plenty to identify with when it came to Clarkson's cows as he runs a beef farm himself.

"I think the thing that I related to the most of it this year is past when he first got the cows, obviously we being a beef farm, he was showing the effects of what TB has done to his herd," the farmer explained.

"That is something that every farmer who owns cattle is dreading, and I show massive respect for including that in the show, going through all that.

"It helps people understand what's going on with that particular sector of the livestock industry, it's a very tough, a very outdated sector. There's lots of rules I could go into for hours.

"It's one of the things that I'm very happy Clarkson went into that, because he could have very easily just wiped over that and just not shown it.

"I think it's very important that the general public see that and understand as soon as that has gone, that's a loss, and also effectively your business is shut down until you have a clear test."

Harry reckoned it was one of the sides of farming people wouldn't see without a show like Clarkson's Farm, and that people might think 'typical farmers' when they hear about it if they didn't see the damage done.

In addition to his farming work Jeremy Clarkson has a number of other irons in the fire including his TV work, and he gets paid to make a TV show about his farm as well, while Harry has said that a bad TB outbreak can close a farm down.

"I would probably say that is a major reason why a lot of young farmers second guess buying livestock now," the farmer said of one of the other various dangers a herd of cattle getting TB could cause to the farming industry at large.

Those weren't the only things Clarkson tackled this season, as he also attended a rally in London protesting inheritance tax changes, which Harry said had come as a 'massive shock' to farmers.

A fifth-generation farmer himself, Harry said it was a 'way of life' and praised Clarkson for doing an 'an amazing job in supporting his local farmers', and he was glad that since the protests and the Clarkson's Farm episodes were filmed the government has since raised the thresholds so fewer farms will be affected.

Something else he was really happy to see on the show was 'showing the future of what farming can be', as Clarkson and Kaleb Cooper looked at farming robots and other ways of growing food outside the traditional fields.

"Lots of people think farming is a dead industry that it's old fashioned and it's one of those things that needs to be revamped," the beef farmer said.

"One thing Clarkson did that I really like is he showed what the future is. When he went to those places in Holland, he saw that floating dairy farm, which was absolutely incredible.

"I mean, that blew me away, seeing something on that level, on that intense of a scale as well. Literally in the middle of a city is amazing.

"It shows that the industry does have a future, but also at the same time it still needs those characters from the past and the teachings from the past to go forward."

All in all, Harry has been a huge fan of the latest series of Clarkson's Farm and what we've seen on our screens, saying he has 'massive respect' for Clarkson 'constantly' looking at new ways to improve his farm.

Given his recent health announcement, Harry also said he was hopeful that Clarkson would make a 'speedy recovery back to the field' and know that he had massive support from the wider farming community in the UK.

He said: "All of my thoughts go to the family and himself, and I just hope that he knows that the farming community, every single one of us, and all of us here at Churchill Farm are behind him."

The full fifth season of Clarkson's Farm is available to stream on Prime Video.