Jeremy Clarkson reveals how much money Diddly Squat farm made in sixth year

The newest season of Clarkson’s Farm sees the Diddly Squat farm go through some incredibly tough times, with health scares for Jeremy, a Bovine TB outbreak, and a drought.

Clarkson spoke about one of these health scares in the penultimate episode of season five, revealing that he had been diagnosed with an ‘aggressive’ form of cancer.

In the finale he ends in hospital, saying that if ‘all goes well’ viewers will see him again in season six, but that if not this may be the end of the show.

This emotional moment comes, however, shortly after Clarkson revealed how much the Diddly Squat farm had made in its fifth year since the Top Gear presenter took it over.

Clarkson famously made just £144 in profit in his first year of owning the farm (but probably didn’t mind too much because Amazon paid him £160 million for the first three seasons of the show).

In his fifth year Clarkson brought in a huge amount of new technology to try and modernise the farm, telling Kaleb a story in an earlier episode about how his family’s business collapsed in the 19^th century because they refused to modernise.

Despite his major moves to modernise the farm however, and the fact that Clarkson and Kaleb have clearly hit a groove in their work on Diddly Squat, poor luck meant that the fifth year of owning the farm was far from successful.

Sitting down with Charlie Ireland, the man behind Diddly Squat’s finances, Clarkson was told that the planned profits for this year’s harvest was £37,000. The reality, however, was far, far lower than this.

Charlie Ireland reveals the yields were all down this year (Prime Video)

Ireland reveals in the finale that they actually lost £5,152. Clarkson and Ireland confirm that it is ‘weather related’, stating that they got 30% less wheat and 40% less barley than expected because of the 2025 drought which plagued the farm.

Clarkson said: “This is bloody dispiriting Charlie, it’s dispiriting. It was pretty depressing in year one when we made a profit of £144, but here we are in year six losing £5,000.”

Ireland admitted that it was ‘galling’ because they had gone about everything in the right way, but simply found themselves losing money due to factors outside their control.

Writing on X last year, Clarkson said that the harvest was set to be ‘catastrophic’, adding: “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.

“Our beans died. Our barley yields were dismal. And I won’t grow chickpeas because they are disgusting.”

Clarkson’s Farm season five is available to stream on Prime Video now.