Gerwyn Price is proof of the old farmers’ adage: There’s one barn every minute. For his latest incarnation – after owning greyhounds, running a chip shop and building his ‘forever’ home from scratch – the ‘Iceman’ has now bought a farm. And he fancies doing a Jeremy Clarkson-style documentary to chronicle the tales of a former darts world champion counting his chickens before they are hatched.

Price has followed Michael ‘Bully Boy’ Smith and Peter ‘Snakebite’ Wright into the ranks of top-class marksmen with farmsteads to keep them busy away from the oche. When Smith had enough turkeys on the ranch, one of them would end up being served as the family Christmas dinner, while Wright brings trays of freshly-laid eggs to tournaments in the hope they will end up like his rivals’ minds when he’s beating them – scrambled.

Now, after the Amazon Prime series Clarkson’s Farm, get ready for the Price’s Welsh version: Land of my Farmers.

The No.9 seed, who lifted the Sid Waddell Trophy behind closed doors in 2021, begins his PDC World Championship crusade against Czech qualifier Adam Gawlas on Tuesday night, admitting: “Sometimes you’re trying to fill a void.

“When I didn’t get into the Grand Slam last year and I had 10 days off, I just didn’t know what to do with myself.

“It’s good to have a different focus and some way to just take your mind off the darts and fill that space.

“We built a property which I thought was our forever home, but it’s not. We’ve only been living there two years and now we’re on the move again.

“I’ve just bought a farm and I’m in the process of hopefully getting the farmhouse taken down and rebuilt. What’s the bloke who does the farm? Jeremy Clarkson? Yeah, that’s him – it’ll be a new series coming out soon, hopefully!

“I wouldn’t mind doing some sort of thing where it gets filmed from start to finish. Right now I could never be a full-on farmer as I just haven’t got the time for it.

“I would lease out most of the land because it’s quite a big farm – about 185 acres with 100 acres of woodland, but I’ve got a lot of plans I want to do with it over the next couple of years.

“If I retire when I’m 50, I might become a farmer then, but my daughter’s already planning to have cats and dogs, mini-pigs, definitely some chickens and other bits and pieces.

“I want to try and maybe get a barn conversion there as well. Obviously I want to try and keep somewhere for my daughters to stay around us. Yeah, it’ll be good.”

Price, who arrived on the darts scene as a muscle-bound former rugby union hooker with Cross Keys, has cut a lean figure on the oche since losing three stone on a bulk-down diet.

But the new-look Gezzy has not won universal approval and he admitted: “I still eat what I want, but less of it.

“I’ve seen videos on my daughter’s phone or on apps from 12, 18 months ago, and my wife was like, ‘Oh, no, no’ because I needed to get back in the gym. You look back and you’re like, yeah, I was carrying a few pounds.

“And now, when you lose a bit of weight, people can be like, ‘Oh, no, he looks too thin.’ You can’t win, can you?

“When I started (losing weight), I was around 16 and a half stone, which is about 104kg. Now I’m down to like 85kg, so I’ve lost 20 kilos – almost three stone.

“I wouldn’t say you have to be an athlete to play darts, but it’s obviously in your own interests if you are not overweight, especially when it gets to the bigger tournaments where it’s longer formats.

“Sometimes in the European events on a Sunday, when you’re playing three or four games in a day, it can definitely help.”