Jeremy Clarkson, 62, has turned to farming after the former Top Gear presenter bought an Oxfordshire Farm in 2008. His attempts at running Diddly Squat Farm are documented on his Amazon Prime TV series Clarkson’s Farm.
The Grand Tour star has detailed the various challenges he has faced farming, most notably during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The success of the series has seen visitors flock to the Diddly Squat farm shop to buy products such as Cow Juice, rapeseed oil, chutneys and jams.
Appearing on The News Agents podcast, Jeremy told presenters Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel that he believes food prices should be double what they are.
His comments come not long after his co-star Kaleb Cooper revealed he only pays himself 50p an hour through his own farming work, having broken down the costs involved.
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Last month the former Top Gear presenter said the rising cost of gas ‘doesn’t bother him’ and insisted others could learn to not feel the cold like him.
His comments come after Dave Ramsden, the deputy governor of the Bank of England, gave a speech today about the uncertain and unpredictable UK economy at the Bank of England Watchers’ Conference.
Elsewhere, Jeremy has addressed plans to quit farming altogether amid the ongoing costs.
The Grand Tour presenter said he would have to pay upward of £130,000 for chemicals to use on his land but he admitted it was not justified.
Jeremy wrote in The Times: “This question has been troubling me all year.
“As fertiliser prices went through the roof, past the chimney pots and the lightning conductor and then continued going upwards, from £200 a tonne to more than £1,000, I started to wonder if I’d be financially better off if I took up wilding and went to bed for a year.
“I couldn’t really afford to use fertiliser, and I couldn’t afford not to because the soil round these parts, and the altitude, conspire to make the organic option a nonstarter. Maybe I really should just say phooey and not do any farming at all.”
The Grand Tour presenter shared he made a U-turn on his decision after meeting local farmer and Groove Armada founder Andy Cato, before he added his Clarkson’s Farm co-star Kaleb Cooper was not too pleased.
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