Jeremy faces several obstacles as he attempts to manage a 1,000-acre farm
Jeremy Clarkson has admitted he is having sleepless nights over the financial concerns and health woes that come with farming life.
The Clarkson Farm star faces several obstacles as he attempts to manage a 1,000-acre farm and viewers get a glimpse of his life on his Amazon Prime show, which aired its second season earlier this year. In his latest column for The Sunday Times, Clarkson described how arduous farming work was having an impact on his health.
He wrote: “There’s a lot of jumping involved in farming. You spend a great deal of time hurling yourself off gates and trailers and straw bales, and that’s fine when you are 14. But like almost every other farmer in Britain these days, I’m in my early sixties, and so are my knees.
“Which means that while I can get on top of things, I can’t jump off them any more for fear that my legs will bend the wrong way and that’ll be that for six months.”
He then went on say that such health concerns, as long as financial worries, were causing a great deal of anxiety.
Clarkson continued: “And on top of the physical issues, which will only get worse, there are financial problems too. And they’re going to get worse as well.
“Because the grants and subsidies that I used to get from the EU, to recompense me for selling food at a loss, are dwindling until, in three years’ time, they will dry up completely. These, then, are troubling times, because what am I to do?
“Farming hurts my back and my knees, and if I attempt to use my land to grow food, I’ll lose money. It has been causing me some sleepless nights, that’s for sure.”
