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.
“There’s no filming happening on the farm at the moment,” he confirmed to The Sunday Times.
“It hasn’t stopped raining since the beginning of the year, so I can’t plant anything, and I can’t do anything with my cows either because we are still locked down by TB.”
This outbreak of bTB was a huge setback in 2025, and saw the farm face a year of climate-driven disasters. Clarkson called it the “worst year ever”, citing a “shocking” harvest due to heatwaves and drought in the UK.
The forthcoming fifth season of Clarkson’s Farm is expected to focus on the outbreak of bovine tuberculosis, which struck the Cotswolds farm in October 2025.
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.
