Kaleb Cooper “immediately” left Diddly Squat Farm after Jeremy Clarkson issued him a farming task. The 26-year-old farmer rose to fame on the former Top Gear star’s hit Amazon Prime series Clarkson’s Farm.

The show documents the broadcaster’s journey into farming after purchasing a barn in the heart of the Cotswolds. In recent weeks, Jeremy has shared his plans to give his 1,000-acre farm a spring clean in his latest column for the Sunday Times but admitted that it will be no mean feat. He described sprucing up his fields as a “task Hercules himself would describe as ambitious”.

The 65-year-old broadcaster admitted that one problem many farmers face is that they “never throw anything away”. Instead, he explained how they believe “every single thing ever made could come in handy one day.”

Jeremy revealed that this issue is something his co-star Kaleb particularly suffers with, explaining: “Ask him to put something away and he acts like a seven-year-old who’s been told to tidy his room.

“He’s not interested in tidiness because it takes time and time is money. What does it matter if he’s left a 60-year-old chain harrow in the field? ‘Er, because it’s ugly, Kaleb’. He can’t get that at all. In his world, ugly doesn’t matter.”

He added that the issue of Kaleb leaving equipment lying around came to a head when he asked him to help with the spring clean. The dad-of-three went on: “When I asked him to help me tidy the farmyard, he immediately got into his ugly pick-up truck and went for a weekend mini break with his family in the Yorkshire Dales.”

It is understood that in 2008, the broadcaster purchased the enormous Sarsden estate in Chipping Norton. The land included Curdle Hill farm, which previously grew barley, rapeseed, and wheat in rotation.

When its tenant decided to retire in 2019, Jeremy decided he would attempt to branch out into farming, changing its name to Diddly Squat Farm and documenting his journey on Prime Video.

The series has gained critical acclaim, with many active farmers taking a favourable stance on Jeremy for raising issues facing the rural community. Author James Rebanks told The Telegraph: “I can report back from within the farming community: they all loved that programme.

“They loved it. Ok, he’s clowning around and he plays to that audience, and a lot of farmers are lads that like machines and they would have watched Top Gear and all the rest of it.”

Kaleb meanwhile first ventured into the farming industry aged 13, when he began helping out at a dairy farm. He worked at the farm when it was managed by Howard Pauling before continuing as a farm hand under Jeremy.