TV star Jeremy Clarkson admits he feels "embarrassment" over a major issue at his Diddly Squat Farm.

The former Top Gear host is gearing up for a new series of Clarkson's Farm, which drops on Amazon Prime at the start of June. Despite this things have not been going perfectly at the farm, as he revealed that one problem means "not much actual farming is going on".

In June, Diddly Squat will be hosting a farming event called Cereals, an annual meet-up of farmers from across the UK to chat about the industry over the course of two days.

While Jeremy says he is "very proud" to be hosting the event at the Cotswolds venue, he admitted to being "a little embarrassed".

Writing in the Sunday Times, he said: "I'm very proud that we've been selected to host this prestigious event, but also a little embarrassed, because 30,000 farmers will be talking nonstop about farming on a farm where not much actual farming is going on."

Jeremy went on to explain that his land agent, Cheerful Charlie, told him there is no point planting the spring barley and durum wheat in his fields.

This is because even if the weather is perfect and he makes no mistakes, he would still apparently be guaranteed to lose money.

He continued: "This surprised me because last year, thanks to the long, hot summer, the harvest was terrible. The second worst in living memory. Yields were down by as much as 40 per cent.

"It turns out, however, that only northern Europe had a bad harvest last year. For the rest of the world it was bountiful, so as a result the market is drowning in grain, and as a result the price is extremely low. So if I grew wheat this year, in the UK, where energy, labour costs and taxes are extremely high, I'd be screwed."

Jeremy said that rather than look over his 1,000 acres of land that had been "made redundant", he decided to hire a 13-tonne digger.

He admits that having a digger and some time on your hands if the "most dangerous combination in the world" for a man.

The TV star said: "Ordinarily a man will look at a big job and think, that looks like it requires too much effort so I shall go to the pub instead. But when you're in a digger, no job is too big."

He jokes that he dug a pond and a dam before pulling a hedge apart after lunch. The fifth series of the hugely successful reality show Clarkson's Farm drops on the streaming service on June 3.

The programme sees the Top Gear icon and his crew navigate challenges on the fields and with the animals. There have been a number of these over the years including a Bovine TB outbreak, planning permission rows and financial pressures.