
Spring arrives on the farms - the season of new beginnings and spring lambs, when the hard months of winter finally begin to pay off.\n\nIn the Lake District, Matt, Dani and Murray have their hands full. They are expecting over 1,100 lambs over the next six weeks, and while they are still setting up the lambing shed, some early lambs make an unscheduled appearance. Later, when vet Dani discovers one of their Texel ewes is struggling in the second stage of labour, she steps in to perform an emergency c-section, just two weeks after having her own c-section to give birth to son James.\n\nIn Northumberland, shepherdess Emma Gray and firefighter husband Ewan are preparing for the Whitebred Shorthorn pedigree bull sale in Carlisle. To sell as a stock bull, John Jo, their four-year-old bull, needs to be shown off in the sales ring as biddable and good natured - but with just 10 days until the auction, he’s still not fully halter trained. Tensions run high on the day of the sale, as Ewan struggles to keep John Jo under control.\n\nOn the Stoer Peninsula in the north west Highlands, Helen and Graham’s Gloucestershire Old Spot Sow, Miss Piggy, is waiting to be matched with a new suitor. In true crofting tradition, Graham borrows a boar from a neighbouring croft, and it’s not long before Butch and Miss Piggy are getting down to business. Later, when Graham discovers the pig house destroyed, he realises Butch may have been a little overzealous.\n\nIn Cumbria, father and daughter team Frank and Georgia are nearing the end of the birthing season for their 120 goats. With some of the kids now a few weeks old, it’s time for disbudding - a difficult but necessary job to stop injury from horns within the dairy herd. Their local vet, Ben, takes on the task.
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Series 3: Episode 7
In the Highlands, Raymond tests the market for valais blacknose crossbreeds at the Thainstone Rare Breed Sale, while his kids put pressure on him to buy more pets. Crofters Lynn ...
01-11-2025
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Series 3: Episode 6
In Shetland, Kirsty tackles her first breach birth. Stevie’s favourite pygmy goat Ginger struggles to give birth to twins. Raymond’s cows run amok on their way to th ...
25-10-2025
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Series 3: Episode 5
The Rodgers face a final TB test. Animals arrive at Lynn and Sandra’s croft. Raymond is kept guessing by his surrogate sheep and a calving boom starts at Kirsty and Aimee& ...
19-10-2025
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Series 3: Episode 4
A new family, dairy farmers the McLeans, are introduced. Raymond goes the extra mile to save his lambs. Stevie faces buffalo cow number 666, and Kirsty and Aimee take last year& ...
18-10-2025
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Series 3: Episode 3
Inspectors arrive to check Raymond and Johnny’s subsidy claim. Kirsty and Aimee gather the flock in from St Ninian’s Isle. Lynn and Sandra host their first workshop ...
12-10-2025
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Series 3: Episode 2
New entrant crofting couple Lynn and Sandra send their first pigs to slaughter. Raymond’s best bull Major is injured in a brawl. The Rodgers hopes of Balmoral show hang on ...
03-08-2025
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Series 3: Episode 1
As the new year begins, we meet three new farming families – father-and-son team Raymond and Johnny Irvine, Shetland sisters Kirsty and Aimee Budge and the Rodgers family ...
27-07-2025
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Series 7: 5. New Life On The Farm
On the remote island of Papa Westray, the Baker family need to pregnancy scan their 64 ewes, but their flock is running amok. They have timed lambing to happen after Mel has her ...
04-03-2025
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Series 5: Episode 9
Summer turns to autumn in Bute, Emma and Ewan are in the market for new tups or rams to produce good prime lambs the following spring. When they arrive at Kelso, the biggest she ...
25-01-2023
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Series 5: Episode 3
Ronnie and Pete prepare for a leggy new arrival, Joanna embarks on a steep learning curve, and young farmer Sean nears the end of a bumper lambing season.
10-01-2023
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Series 7: 6. Lambs, Crops And Chicken Pox
Sally is in the thick of lambing on her croft in Caithness, where unseasonal weather is taking its toll. She loses three lambs in one day and has to call out the vet for a ewe t ...
11-03-2025
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Series 4: Episode 10
It’s mid-March. Farmers across the UK are in the middle of lambing and spring calving when coronavirus grips the nation.\n\nHigh in the uplands of Northumberland, Emma and ...
05-11-2024
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Series 7: 11. Handing Over The Reins
In Dumfries and Galloway, the Thomson family meet to discuss plans for Nick’s succession, but there has been a growing change of heart.\n\nNear Glasgow, the Imrie family p ...
15-04-2025
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Series 7: 8. Royal Highland Showtime
In Fife, Andy and Jo prepare to compete at one of the biggest highlights in the farming calendar, the Royal Highland Show. The event holds a special place in their hearts, as it ...
25-03-2025
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Series 6: Episode 11
Summer is in full swing. In the Cairngorms, Robert’s cattle get their first taste of freedom and fresh grass, while Jenni’s alpacas need a short back and sides from ...
09-06-2024
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