Clarkson’s Farm star Kaleb Cooper will sit as a judge for a new category in the Young British Farming Awards 2025.
The British Farming Awards is an annual celebration of the achievements of individuals in the farming industry in the UK, and this year the young farmers will have the chance to win a new award hosted by the TV personality.
The Kaleb Cooper New Entrant of the Year award, introduced for the first time in 2025, will recognise a farmer aged between six and 17 who recently started working on a farm despite having no farming background.
Farmers Guardian, the publication which hosts the British Farming Awards, made the announcement about Chipping Norton area local Mr Cooper’s involvement this week.
A spokesperson said: “We’re thrilled to announce that Kaleb Cooper will be judging this year’s Young British Farming Awards new entry category.
“If you have forged your own path in the industry, or know someone who deserves recognition, enter now.”
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The TV personality shot to fame through his appearance on Jeremy Clarkson’s comedy docuseries set on Diddly Squat Farm in Chadlington.
However, the 26 years old farmhand is absent from the first few episodes of the hit Amazon Prime shows fourth season as he was on his book tour, The World According to Kaleb.
Even so, he’s been a key member of the cast since his debut TV appearance in series one in 2021, and has also penned two other books in that time, It’s a Farming Thing and Britain According to Kaleb.
Although he’s now soared to celebrity status, the media personality remembers his roots, as he once admitted he earned a “pittance”, paying himself just 50p per day having started working on a diary farm at the age of 13.
He worked at Diddly Squat Farm as a farmhand and tractor driver before former Top Gear star Mr Clarkson decided to take over farming the land, which he bought in 2008.
The Young British Farming Awards will recognise eight industry workers across the categories of farm worker, a junior and senior handler, farming hero, farmers club, famers club community hero, farmers club leader and new entrant.
Winners will be announced at an award ceremony at Cannon Hall Farm in Yorkshire, in a glamorous event hosted by farmer and content creator Tom Pemberton.
The British Farming Awards will be held at the Vox Birmingham in October this year, sponsored by Morrisons and hosted by Farmers Guardian, and will welcome more than 800 farmers and industry professionals in its 13th year.
