Jeremy Clarkson issues warning in latest 'catastrophic' Diddly Squat Farm update
The Top Gear and Grand Tour star originally purchased the Chadlington-based farm back in 2008.
It has since been the focus of four series of the Prime Video hit show Clarkson's Farm, giving an insight into what it is really like to run a farm.
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The 65-year-old announced last week that Tuberculosis (TB) had broken out at Diddly Squat Farm in Chadlington.
Mr Clarkson later said in an interview with Times Radio that Diddly Squat Farm "will be closed for two months" as a result of the outbreak. The shop remains open.
He has today (August 8) issued another farming update.
Taking to X, he said: "It looks like this year's harvest will be catastrophic.
"That should be a worry for anyone who eats food.
"If a disaster on this scale had befallen any other industry, there would be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth."
One user responded saying: "We've been the same, about 10 miles from you in Banbury. Ground has been hard as concrete most days.
"Thought it was going to be a high yield this year!!"
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At the beginning of July, UK farmers reported that a record early harvest had already begun, amid a heatwave bringing temperatures of up to 34-35C this week risking some crops "shutting down and shrivelling" in the field.
"Temperatures of 34C really b*gger up crops. They can't function and start dying off while the warm winds have compounded things by working to pull moisture out of the plants in the field," Arable farmer Martin Lines said at the time.
Mr Lines, who is also CEO of the Nature Friendly Farming Network, confirmed he was preparing to begin harvesting winter barley and oil seed rape this week, the first time he's ever harvested in the first week of July.
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