TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has provided insight into farming life and warned that this year’s harvest “will be catastrophic”.

It comes after the former Top Gear star, 65, said bovine tuberculosis had been found on his Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire last week.

On Friday, in a post to X, formerly Twitter, 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.”

In response to a person in the comments section saying that drama makes good TV, he said: “Yes. But most farms don’t have TV shows to keep them going.”

Asked if the farm would be able to survive without adjacent businesses like Clarkson’s pub and shop

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