How third collection of Amazon hit Clarkson’s Farm has thrilled followers

Clarkson’s Farm fans have been thrilled by the long-awaited return of the Amazon hit series after it finally aired on the streaming service earlier today. 

The popular farming show sees the former Top Gear and Grand Tour presenter wrestle with the daily challenges of running his 1,000 acre Diddly Squat Farm located in the idyllic Cotswolds countryside. 

Series one and two, which released in June 2021 and February 2023, respectively, were are an instant hit with audiences across the UK, who were delighted by the array of quirky characters and comical calamities throughout.

And series three has continued its hot steak, delivering on a mixture of humour and  heartbreak as Jeremy and the gang continue in their quest to keep the farm afloat. 

With the first four episodes of the show having been released today, here MailOnline lists some of the shows most memorable moments so far. 

Early on in the first episode of the new series, Jeremy reveals he can no longer afford to keep all of his cows after West Oxfordshire District Council tells him has to close down his newly opened restaurant. 

Jeremy says the local authority has ‘gone completely mad’ as an enforcement notice tells him to stop close restaurant immediately and reinstate the land to its original state.

The notice then lists a number of items he isn’t allowed to keep in the area, which includes: plant pots, gravel, stone and wood chippings, and parking. 

As he watches the cows being loaded up onto the lorry, Jeremy turns to his land agent and advisor for a heart-to-heart.  

‘I’m finding today really quite sad as for the last year I’ve been opening the windows, opening the curtains in the morning and there are the cows. And I love that,’ Jeremy says.

‘Making cow noises. It just cheers my heart every morning to see them.’

His worries then turn to the calves as he affectionately asks whether they will be able to sleep tonight.

But Kaleb Cooper, 25, then tells Jeremy it is he who won’t be sleeping as they ‘will be calling all night long’. 

Clearly anxious about Pepper’s future, Charlie gives Jeremy a word of warning when he asks what will happen to her. 

‘I wouldn’t ask too many questions about Pepper,’ Charlie says. ‘Don’t ask questions you don’t want to know the answers to.’

There is an awkward moment of silence as Jeremy stares and blinks before turning away and letting out a big audible sigh and muttering: ‘Oh Christ.’ 

Jeremy took an instant shine to Pepper during Clarkson’s Farm 2, when he is asked to look after her by five-year-old Rosie, the daughter of her previous owner. 

He said: ‘This is my pet. Five-year-old Rosie, from the farm we bought her from, said this cow was her favourite.

‘She asked: “Would you look after Pepper for me?” So I said I would.’

Later in the episode Jeremy begins working on another hare brained plan to make money for the farm as he realises he only uses around half of his land for farming.

He tells the camera: ‘I wonder if you could farm the unfarmed. I wonder if I could make money about the bit of the farm I’m not farming.’ 

His latest scheme comes with some good news for his second in command Kaleb, as Jeremy reveals he is giving the 25-year-old a promotion to help him deal with the extra workload.

Jeremy tells Kaleb he is being made farm manager to look after the arable farmland, while he works out how to make money from the unfarmable areas.

Unsurprisingly the former Top Gear presenter decides to turn it into a competition as he challenges Kaleb to see who can make more money over the next year.

This then sets up the central storyline throughout the series as Jeremy and Kaleb battle it out to see who is the superior farmer. 

At the end of the first episode, Clarkson receives the heartbreaking news that fan favourite Gerald Cooper has been diagnosed with cancer during a phone call with who is thought to be the 74-year-old’s wife. 

Viewers are left in suspense as the former Top Gear and Grand Tour presenter is seen to be in dismay, before telling the cameras ‘Gerald’s got cancer. Oh s***.’

Clarkson later reveals in the second episode more details about Gerald’s cancer diagnosis. 

He tells viewers: ‘Gerald had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Something me and Kaleb discussed while trying to do what our absent friend normally does.’

The motoring star is seen rebuilding a wall with farmhand Kaleb Cooper, 25, a job that usually fell to Gerald as Diddly Squat Farm’s resident dry stone-waller.

Jeremy says: ‘I’ve been phoning around, doctors and things I know, and his odds are really good but it’s scaring him to death.’ Kaleb replies ‘He doesn’t understand, you know that.’

Jeremy adds: ‘I know he doesn’t understand and he’s bewildered because, for obvious reasons, somebody said, “Look, I’m sorry it’s cancer”, and that’s all he heard. He’s desperately upset, terrified. Poor man.’ 

Kaleb then praises Gerald for how ‘strong’ he is, adding that he has ‘worked on the land all of his life.’

It was previously revealed that Gerald has been combine harvesting on the farm for 50 years and seems to have a constant smile on his face.

His hilarious demeanour captured the hearts of the nation in the first series of Clarkson’s farm and had viewers in stitches with his strong West Country accent, which Jeremy occasionally struggles to understand.

Later in the series, Kaleb and Clarkson provide a positive update about Gerald’s recovery. 

‘He had his op three days ago. Have you talked to him?,’ Jeremy asks Kaleb.

He replies: ‘Yeah I spoke to him two days ago, I’m going to take him some pork. 

‘He wants some belly pork so he must be feeling a little bit better. He seems happier now as well.’

Jeremy later provided another positive update  telling viewers, Gerald was ‘on the mend.’

Kaleb then jokes: ‘That’s what we like to hear, there’s a few walls that fell down so we need him to be back at it.’

Gerald does not appear in person in any of the first four episodes of the series which has dropped on Amazon today. 

it is not known whether he will return for the last half of the series until will be released on the streaming site on May 10.

Although the kind-hearted tradesman does feature in some of the promotional material for the show. 

So fingers crossed he delights viewers with his long awaited return.  

At the start of the series Clarkson comes up with yet another grand money making scheme, inspired by the impassioned words of former Prime Minister Liz Truss. 

He decides to buy some pigs in the hopes that they will help him to reinvigorate the woods on the farm, despite the cautious words of his land agent Charlie Ireland, who is put off by the amount of work required to reer the animals. 

Jeremy also believes the pigs will give him and edge over Kaleb in their ongoing competition to see who can make the most money out of the farm. 

Explaining his decision, Clarkson says: ‘I got pigs into the woods: woods are normally empty of cash, no money comes from them, so I just did little bits and bobs like that to see if I could make more than he did.’

Jeremy buys mix of older male and female pigs for breeding, as well as 10 adorable piglets, which immediately capture the hearts of Jeremy and his girlfriend Lisa Hogan.   

Jeremy is over the moon with the new arrivals to Diddly Squat, which immediately dash around their field after being released from their trailer. 

He quickly dubs the 10-strong herd ‘Piggly Squat’, with girlfriend Lisa Hogan left ‘beside herself’ at the cuteness overload as they root for potatoes. 

Later in the series, the older pigs eventually give birth, which only spells out more hard work for Jeremy and Lisa. 

Most of the births happened at night in the bitter cold, but the couple had to be on hand in case the mothers ran into any trouble.

Jeremy said: ‘The sows were giving birth, but it was always in the middle of the night, and it was bitterly cold.

‘When you’ve got a sow that’s in trouble, you have to help out, and the fact is that Lisa’s hands are smaller than mine so she was the first to say, ‘It has to be me, it would be ridiculous to put your big old boxing gloves up the sow’.

‘She went literally shoulder deep. She did say afterwards at least it was it was warm up there.’

The sows give birth to five adorable baby pigs and in one adorable moment Clarkson squeals with delight as he cuddles and welcomes piglets to his farm.

The 64-year-old bends down to take a closer look at the new arrivals and coos: ‘Oh look, oh they’re adorable. Well done, Mum.’

He proudly points at the cute little piglet shouting with glee ‘look, look!’ before giving it a gentle cuddle. 

Clarkson says: ‘Your father wasn’t a pedigree Sandy and Black, but whoever he was he had produced some very brilliant offspring.’

His affections then turn to the runt of the little as he holds the ‘micro pig’ in his arms as a smiling Kaleb Cooper stands next to him.

A person can be heard shouting off camera that the pair look like proud parents, but the it takes a dark turn as Jeremy says: ‘Sadly this happy moment was short lived.’

Viewers then learn the ‘little runt piggy’ went missing the next morning as Jeremy tells his girlfriend Lisa Hogan how he had met a gruesome end – by being eaten by his mother, ‘with just a bit of an ear left’ in the sty.

Meanwhile in the same episode, it seems the local council is still on Jeremy’s case about his various business ventures as they set their sights on closing down his farm shop and car park.

Jeremy and Charlie get to grips with the latest Enforcement Notice for the shop and try to hatch a plan to prevent it from suffering the same fate as the restaurant.

At the farm shop, Charlie is tasked with making sure that Lisa is following the council’s instructions to the exact letter of the law, much to her annoyance.

Lisa is told that the shop could only sell items produced within 16 miles of their farm and failure to comply would lead to a criminal record.

Speaking about the new rules, Lisa said: ‘Charlie had to have a serious conversation with me and say that I could end up with a criminal record if I didn’t comply, it’s council regulations which I respect, especially after Charlie explained it to me in his clear and concise way.’

Episode four sees one of the saddest moments in the show so far, as Jeremy and Lisa struggle with the deaths of some of the newborn baby pigs on the farm.

In one scene Jeremy finds out that four of the piglets have died and is seen consoling an emotional Lisa as she breaks down in tears after hearing the tragic news.

Opening up about the scenes, Lisa explained: ‘It was heart-breaking. Jeremy’s always loved pigs, I didn’t think I’d be that enamoured by pigs but I did get really close to them as people will see. Farming’s just sad.’

She continued: ‘The animals become your friends and you’re isolated – there are certain farms that are really isolated – and the animals become your family. When they become unwell, you’re losing members of your animal family.

‘If that’s how sad we can get in front of a TV crew, imagine the farmers that are alone and having to do it with nobody around them when they’re losing animal after animal. It’s so difficult.

‘Every day it’s emotional whether it’s really happy because the weather is perfect and you can get on with the job at hand or it’s miserable if it’s raining the crops are failing and you can’t do a thing.

‘It’s very difficult to be unemotional about it. So, yes, I don’t want to go against what he’s said but I definitely think he’s becoming more a man of the land than a man of the road.’