Jeremy Clarkson makes devastating Clarkson's Farm announcement after huge loss

Jeremy Clarkson has revealed a "gruesome" loss at his Diddly Squat Farm just months after a difficult year at his Oxfordshire farm. The 65-year-old broadcaster purchased his 1,000-acre farm in Chadlington back in 2008, but it wasn't until 2019 that the former Top Gear star transformed it into his own farm. And the motoring journalist made sure to bring his fans along for the journey, documenting his efforts for the hit Amazon Prime show Clarkson's Farm, which is gearing up for its fifth series next year.

In his first full year, his humble farmstead famously made only £144 in profits, largely due to the pandemic, significant expenses, and terrible weather. Now, Clarkson has revealed his losses for the past year (2024/2025) are even worse.

Writing in his Sunday Times column, he revealed: "The upshot is that Cheerful Charlie came round last week with the figures, and in the farming year of 2024/2025, I've lost about £5,000.

"Which is pretty gruesome considering that last year, when it didn't stop raining, I made less than £15,000. If those numbers are typical, it means farmers are working twice as hard as anyone else and not even getting the minimum wage."

He fumed: "In the past, they were, of course, cushioned from weather events by government subsidies and grants. But those are now being phased out.

"Sir Starmer wants to spend the nation's cash on bicycle lanes and transgender lavatories, and, when it comes to food, he can't see why people don't do what he does and simply import their avocados from Ecuador."

In the last financial year, the journalist has been the voice piece for the problems farmers face across the UK, following the impact it has had on his own business.

This includes the dry and hot weather. It was the driest spring in over a century and England's warmest June on record, with the Environment Agency putting the Thames Valley area in "prolonged dry weather" status.

As a result, when it came to harvesting, Mr Clarkson said his crop yield was down too. Speaking about the impact it had on his durum wheat, he confessed: "In a reasonable year, I'd expect to get six tonnes of grain per hectare.

"But in large parts of the farm, I wasn't even getting two. And straw? We will need a lot of bedding for the cows over the winter and what we've got wouldn't even fill a Hoover bag. God knows what they're going to sleep on. And God knows what they're going to eat because we don't have much hay or silage either."

Looking at his bleak future, Clarkson added: "It gets worse because next year, there's the risk that the weather will do something bonkers again, and the certainty that all of Rachel Reeves' exciting new taxes will come into being."