Kaleb Cooper has revealed the emotional toll of the latest season of Clarkson’s Farm, admitting he struggled mentally as tensions with Jeremy Clarkson flared once again during harvest.
The hit Prime Video series returns for its fourth season on Friday, May 23, with Clarkson continuing his chaotic efforts to manage Diddly Squat Farm and a new pub.
But this time, Cooper wasn’t always by his side.
Cooper opened up about his recent nationwide tour – a one-man show about farming – which pulled him away from the farm.
While he said the tour was “great,” the timing meant Clarkson was left to handle more than usual.
“There was so much rain we couldn’t really do much farming anyway,” Cooper explained.
“Jeremy and I argued quite a bit in harvest because it was so stressful for me trying to do my very best again as a contractor.”
“It’s never ideal to be away, but because of the weather it was a perfect time to not be on the farm,” he added.
But when it came time for harvest, Cooper returned to familiar frustrations, particularly with Clarkson’s less-than-perfect farming methods.
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“It was pretty tough mentally,” Cooper admitted.
“The problem with the harvest was because I’m still young, I’m 26, I think a lot of people can doubt me sometimes.
“And I doubt myself sometimes because I think everyone does ask themselves if they’re doing things right.”
He continued: “Jeremy really enjoys doing the harvest, but he’s a pain. Life would be easier if he wasn’t there during harvest, just because he’s a bit incompetent!”
Clarkson, for his part, doesn’t deny his own struggles when left to manage the farm solo. In fact, he described the experience as a “slow-motion accident.”
“I did do some of the farming for the first time ever, completely on my own, with Kaleb not being around,” the 65-year-old said.
“I had to take care of the pigs on my own. I had to take care of the cows on my own, and I had to get the crops planted on my own…”
He went on: “When you’re doing it completely on your own – well, things had to be redone a few times… When you have planted an entire field and it’s taken days – it shouldn’t have taken days, but it did take me days – you finally get it in, and then three weeks or a month later, absolutely nothing grows out of it.
“That’s a slow-motion accident, and it’s extremely disheartening when you’ve worked your socks off and nothing grows. Nothing. Not one single thing grew out of the soil.”
Clarkson called it a major “wake-up call” in terms of understanding the challenges of real farming.
Fans can watch how it all unfolds when Clarkson’s Farm returns to Prime Video on 23 May.