Jeremy Clarkson has shared a worrying update about Diddly Squat farm after making a big decision. In his column for the Sunday Times, Clarkson revealed he is trying his hand with hops by investing millions of pounds to help fund hop farmers.

His Hawkstone brewery is buying output from Charles Faram Farms, Britain's main hop farming collective, to give farmers security with "a lack of government direction or help", according to Clarkson. The TV farmer considered trying to grow hops on his own land, but the farm was not suitable, as he penned: "Ideally, you need deep, fertile soil and protection from the wind. I'm 1,000 feet up in the Cotswolds, where conditions unfortunately aren't right." He continued: "We have got a very problematic year coming up. We know for a fact we won't make money on wheat and barley. And we're still closed down with TB [cattle tuberculosis]."

His worrying admission comes after he admitted he has been forced to halt filming for his Amazon Prime series Clarkson's Farm due to the weather. He said last week: "On the face of it, I'm a busy man. I have a television show to make about the farm I run.

"I have a brewery, a shop and a pub, and I host Who Wants to be a Millionaire? and its new spin-off series, and I write three newspaper columns every week. I'm therefore a one-man blizzard of productivity and action. A human whirlwind.

"Except I'm not. There's no filming happening on the farm at the moment. Or farming. It hasn't stopped raining since the beginning of the year, so I can't plant anything, and I can't do anything with my cows either because we are still locked down by TB."

However, he has seemingly confirmed that his series is running on schedule as he spoke to a fan on social media. They asked him: "Can you please clarify when the new series of the farm is starting? "My son is doing my head in asking. Like I f*****g know. Did he keep the pups? I don't know."

Clarkson replied: "May. I think. It's not up to me."