Jeremy Clarkson has opened up about the one aspect of farming that continues to frustrate him after five years of working the land on his Diddly Squat Farm. The 66-year-old former Top Gear star, known for his candidness about agricultural struggles, revealed that attaching implements to a tractor remains a persistent challenge.
An Everyday Annoyance Becomes Infuriating
Speaking ahead of the premiere of Clarkson's Farm season five, Clarkson shared his ongoing difficulty with tractor attachments. 'After six or seven years of farming, I still can't attach anything to the back of a tractor,' he told the Express. 'I can't remember the sequence of buttons, I can't line anything up properly, and I don't know where the hydraulic hoses go. It disappoints me that I still have to get Kaleb to help. Anything practical, I can't do. It's annoying in everyday life, but on a farm it's absolutely infuriating.'
The admission comes amid a turbulent period for the farm, which earlier this year faced a tuberculosis outbreak among its cows and a farmhand's finger amputation incident requiring surgery.
New Season, New Challenges
The upcoming season of Clarkson's Farm on Amazon Prime Video, set to premiere on June 3, sees Clarkson attempting to replace traditional tractors with a driverless model, much to the dismay of farm manager Kaleb Cooper. The trailer shows a new flock of sheep arriving to cause chaos, and the impact of a government budget that has stirred uproar in the UK farming community.
A synopsis for the season states: 'Clarkson's Farm is back, and amidst a government budget that sends the UK farming community into uproar, Jeremy decides some big changes are needed to make the farm run more smoothly. But while the farm tries to go high-tech – resulting in Kaleb's first ever trip abroad – even bigger developments are heading for Diddly Squat that are going to prove much more of a challenge.'
Health Scare Revealed
The new season also shows Clarkson being hospitalized for a heart condition. The 66-year-old is seen with tubes and wires attached in a hospital bed, telling Kaleb: 'My heart wasn't getting any blood.' Writing in his Sunday Times column last October, Clarkson described being 'days from death' after experiencing sudden severe symptoms during a holiday. A doctor reportedly told him he was 'days away' from catastrophe.
Clarkson's Farm series 5 begins streaming on June 3 on Amazon Prime Video, with episodes releasing weekly: Episodes 1-4 on June 3, Episodes 5-6 on June 10, and Episodes 7-8 on June 17.
