Jeremy Clarkson shares frustrating reason Clarkson’s Farm can’t film
Clarkson’s Farm showcases Jeremy Clarkson’s struggles to run a 1,000-acre Oxfordshire holding – but getting the show made is a hardship all in itself.
The presenter will return for season five this spring and recently said he’d only make the now-confirmed sixth season if “there was a good story” to focus on. However, the rainclouds hovering over Diddly Squat have meant that no farming can actually take place.
Clarkson said that production has been temporarily put on hold as there’s currently nothing to shoot.
Clarkson’s Farm showcases Jeremy Clarkson’s struggles to run a 1,000-acre Oxfordshire holding – but getting the show made is a hardship all in itself.
The presenter will return for season five this spring and recently said he’d only make the now-confirmed sixth season if “there was a good story” to focus on. However, the rainclouds hovering over Diddly Squat have meant that no farming can actually take place.
Clarkson said that production has been temporarily put on hold as there’s currently nothing to shoot.
Bovine TB (bTB) is a chronic respiratory disease caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium bovis. The disease can be catastrophic for farmers, and forces the culling of infected cattle. Due to a bTB incident in England between October 2021 and September 2022, 22,934 cows were killed.
The disease, which can also infect badgers, deer, goats and pigs, is the biggest challenge facing the farming industry today.
Clarkson bought the now-famous land in 2008 and, after the villager who ran the farm retired in 2019, he decided to see if he could run it himself – a venture tracked in Clarkson’s Farm.
It has become one of Prime Video’s most-streamed TV shows and in July 2024, Clarkson extended his business empire by taking over rural country pub The Windmill in Asthall – a “village boozer” on five acres of countryside near Burford.
The purchase of his pub, which is called The Farmer’s Dog, featured in the latest series of Clarkson’s Farm. But Clarkson recently ruled out any similar ventures in the future, telling The Times he is “done with business” as he “doesn’t understand it”.
“I am not motivated by money. I just want a good craic,” he said.