
As spring arrives on the farms, it’s all hands on deck to get through the busiest time of year.\n\nOn Orkney fourth generation farmer Sean wants to one day own his own farm. For now he works alongside his dad and uncle. When their bumper lambing season is in full swing, his sister and her three you children also pitch in.\n\nIn Stranraer Kayleigh’s husband Rab has an important hospital appointment. Meanwhile it’s full steam ahead with plans for their new, independent dairy business. The couple visit a dairy farm in Ayrshire, discovering how they’ve made a success of diversifying into milk shakes.\n\nOn the Isle of Bute, Emma and Ewan are struggling to get to grips with their new farm, seven times the size of their old one. There’s confusion in the fields as the ewes steal each other’s lambs. They’ve still got weeks of lambing to get through and Emma is shattered.
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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 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
BBC 2
Series 7: 7. Island Farming On The Edge
Nick and Derek get some bad news, putting plans for taking over the family farm into sharp focus in Dumfries and Galloway. They are losing 300 acres of leased grazing land to fo ...
18-03-2025
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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 2: Episode 9
As the weather gets warmer, Mel and Martin's cows go back out to the fields, Janet and Alastair have to de-horn their newborn calves, weaning time at the buffalo farm gives Stev ...
28-12-2018
BBC 2
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
BBC 2