Jeremy Clarkson’s latest column has hinted at what we might be watching next year
Jeremy Clarkson has spoken out about what fans can expect from the next season of his beloved Prime show.
Despite Clarkson’s Farm season three only just recently being released, all eyes are on what the fourth outing of the hit Amazon Prime Video show might give us. And now, the man after which the show is named has given us the latest hint as to what we can expect.
Already a household name for a number of decades, Jeremy Clarkson has re-established himself in the British psyche for his venture in to the world of full-time farming, following a career created in the world of journalism and cars.
Teaming up with his partner, Lisa Hogan, and young farming wizard Kaleb Cooper, the team – that also includes lovable farmhand Gerald Cooper and farm agronomist Charlie Ireland – have spent the last five years transforming Diddly Squat Farm in to a fully fledged UK tourism attraction.
With people queueing hours just to get access to the Diddly Squat Farm Shop, it is being treated the same as waiting for a rollercoaster at a top theme park. People want their Hawkstone Lager and they want it now.
The third outing of Clarkson’s Farm saw Jezza take on West Oxfordshire District Council once again and, this time, coming away with a massive win.
It also saw him attempt to diversify the farm’s revenue streams once more; with an outcome that left some shocked.
Now, Clarkson himself has issued an update on what people might be able to watch in the fourth season of the show – and it follows a similar trend.
With it increasingly hard for farmers to make a decent living, it looks like Clarkson is set to diversify Diddly Squat Farm once again. Except this time, for stuff we won’t be able to buy from the farm shop to eat or drink.
In his latest column for The Sunday Times, Clarkson ranted about the environment and reaching net zero; where our carbon emissions become negligible.
After stating he produces ‘more greenhouse gases than India, Brazil and China combined’ in one day of using his tractor and plough, Clarkson focused on the issue of securing government subsidies – something you can only achieve if you show you’re doing ‘environmental work’.
“I could use chemicals but they are bad for the soil and, we are told, bad for the nation’s streams and rivers. It’s better and cheaper, therefore, to use cow muck. But that means keeping cows and that, again, is a global warming no-no apparently because of their endless burping and farting,” Jezza writes.
He adds: “There are pages and pages and pages of rules and regulations on [government subsidies], and I’ll be honest I haven’t read many (any) of them because that’s Cheerful Charlie’s job. But what I do know is that this year the biggest field on the farm is being used to grow a herbal ley called GS4.
“And all you need to know about this is: you can’t eat it.
“The second biggest field has been given over to rye grass and you can’t eat that either. But the government pays me to do this because less farming is needed, which means I’m producing less carbon dioxide. And I’m helping to replenish the nitrogen content of the soil. Which I approve of.”
It has also seen the field used by Andy Cato from Groove Armada in season three, to focus on wild farming, turned in to another plot for a ‘beige plant’ we can’t eat.
Ultimately, Jezza says that since season three, a whopping 20 per cent of his farmland has been transformed into land that won’t produce any food this year but will instead help produce a profit and focus on environmentally friendly outcomes.
But as he states: “And all of this is tremendous if you are a global warming enthusiast. It frees you up to go on more marches. But what if you want a sandwich?”
