Jeremy Clarkson devastated as he's dealt major blow just moments into new Clarkson's Farm series

Jeremy Clarkson faces a significant setback just moments into the new series of Clarkson's Farm, leaving him devastated. The popular show is set to return to Prime Video next week, featuring Jeremy Clarkson and Kaleb Cooper as they attempt to raise funds for their struggling farm.

However, in the opening minutes of the first episode, Jeremy receives some unfortunate news, admitting that everything that could go wrong has indeed gone wrong, as he discusses his plan to try 'unfarming'. Following an exceptionally dry summer, Jeremy finds it challenging to harvest any of the crops he had planted. His potatoes had already undergone a process known as skin hardening, preventing further growth.

In a disappointing twist for Jeremy and Kaleb, the potatoes were even too small to be collected by the machinery. In other parts of the farm, Jeremy is left heartbroken when he discovers his sunflowers cannot be harvested, and his plan to introduce something new on the farm also fails to take off.

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With no oilseed rape available for planting, Jeremy is further hit with an enforcement notice from the council, instructing him to shut down his restaurant, reports the Mirror. Jeremy had previously spoken about the "heartbreaking" loss of piglets on his farm.

Reflecting on the tragedy, he articulated: "It was just a heartbreaking time. I've never, ever seen Lisa cry - not once, ever since that all started and was unfolding. It was terrible. It is weird, because you love them and you help birth them and you feed and nurture and care for them. I mean, you don't say, 'Let's buy some pigs and hope they die," he explained, "I thought it would be fun to have them, then they all just died in alarming numbers."

"It was absolutely horrific at the time, and we had another calamity with them just the other day, but by and large they're now going OK. We're getting more robust now, though - we're a bit stronger at dealing with it. That's a lot of money. I reckoned the pigs would provide something that's sadly lacking in farming today: a bit of genuine happiness."

Adding to his comments, Jeremy said: "It was almost unbelievably sad, we had a catastrophically high level of deaths. The piglets were sadly accidentally crushed by their mothers while some died of natural causes in infancy."