Jeremy Clarkson says one of his recent ideas to boost income on his Oxfordshire farm made his land agent 'roll his eyes'. The former Top Gear presenter has presented several Amazon Prime shows, including The Grand Tour, since being forced to leave the BBC series in 2015.
One of these programmes is Clarkson's Farm, which charts Jeremy' life on Diddly Squat Farm. He first purchased the farm in 2008, but his Amazon Prime series has documented his attempts to make the farm productive again, the Daily Express reports.
The 62-year-old now says that his latest plans made his Clarkson's Farm co-star, Kaleb Cooper, leave Oxfordshire for a week. Writing in his weekly column for The Sunday Times Magazine, Jeremy said it was his plan to become a pig farmer that provoked opposition.
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He said: "Cheerful Charlie Ireland, my land agent, says this is the stupidest idea I've had yet and wants no part of it. Kaleb was so unpleased that he got into his pick-up truck and went to Cornwall for a week," Jeremy continued.
Jeremy explained why he felt his "logic was sound" as he laid out his plan for the pigs. He suggested that pigs are "much cheaper" to buy than other livestock, including cows or sheep.
Describing how pigs "hosed out" piglets like "machinegun bullets", he wrote: "You buy ten pigs for a few quid and three months later you have ten million. That's profit, right there. Pure, naked profit."
"Charlie responded to this argument by rolling his eyes and going home. Which meant that Lisa and I had to spend a week or two learning an all-new language: pig." Prime Video says that Clarkson's Farm will return for a second series on February 10.
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