Jeremy Clarkson confesses worrying Diddly Squat Farm issue set to 'get worse'

Jeremy Clarkson has warned that British farming is facing an 'impossible' future, with his own Diddly Squat Farm leaving 200 acres unplanted due to guaranteed losses

Liam McInerney Content Editor and Carly Hacon Showbiz Reporter

10:49, 25 Jul 2026Updated 10:51, 25 Jul 2026

Jeremy Clarkson(Image: Getty)

Jeremy Clarkson has offered a grim perspective on the state of farming in Britain, stating that making a profit from crop cultivation is now "impossible".

The former Top Gear host also shared his own challenges at Diddly Squat Farm which he anticipates will only worsen next year. The 66 year old expressed these views while discussing the possibility of Andy Burnham replacing Keir Starmer in Number 10 - a change for which he doesn't hold "much hope".

Speaking about the difficulties faced by the agricultural sector, he penned in The Sun: "Action is needed now because farmers have reached the point where it is quite simply impossible to make money from growing food.

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Jeremy Clarkson raised the issue in his latest column(Image: Getty)

"This year, I have 200 acres on my farm where we grew nothing at all. We knew that if we planted it with wheat or barley, we would definitely make a loss." He predicts that next year "things will be even worse" due to the implementation of a Net Zero carbon tax on fertiliser, reports the Express.

Proposing a solution, Clarkson suggested that farmers might need to lease land to a massive global agri-company capable of cultivating plants that can then power anaerobic digesters.

Alternatively, he sarcastically proposed that farmers could install solar farms or a data centre. He added: "Or sell the whole farm to a Chinese company who'd build a multistorey high-intensity piggery on it."

Clarkson stated he wasn't merely being absurd and highlighted that people in 1926 would never have believed you if you told them factories would be gone by 2026.

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