Clarkson's Farm star Kaleb Cooper says it 'would be easier' if Jeremy wasn't there

Clarkson's Farm star Kaleb Cooper has opened up about the difficult harvest Diddly Squat has faced this year and admitted that sometimes it would be easier if Jeremy Clarkson wasn't there.

Kaleb rose to fame as Jeremy's farm manager on the Amazon Prime Series and has since branched out and landed his own solo tour.

Ahead of the latest series, which is available to watch now, Kaleb confessed he and Jeremy argued "quite a bit" during the farm's harvest.

He shared: "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 was pretty tough mentally. The problem with 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 going doing things right."

He added: "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!"

During the new series of Clarkson's Farm, fans were introduced to a new star, Harriet Cowan. Harriet stepped in to replace Kaleb while he had other work commitments away from the farm.

This meant Jeremy had to step up and take on a lot of Kaleb's work. He explained for the "first time ever", he did some farming completely on his own.

The former Grand Tour star stated: "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. It was the first time I was farming without an instructor, and we all know what that's like.

"You learn how to drive, you think, 'Okay, I've got the hang of this', but the first time you drive a car when you don't have somebody in the seat, no matter how cocky you might be, is unnerving. It's like that times 1000 when you're in a tractor.

"It's not that Kaleb sits in the tractor with me, but he's never more than a walkie talkie away. He's always on the farm somewhere, and he can come and help me if I get stuck.

"But when you're doing it completely on your own and, well, things had to be redone a few times. You think you should know when you have planted an entire field and it's taken days."

Jeremy continued: "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. It does cost. It's probably £600 when you make a mistake like that, which is a lot. That, in terms of farming, was my big wake up call."

Clarkson's Farm is available to watch on Amazon Prime Video.