This Farming Life

  • Premiered: Mar 2016
  • Episodes: 84
  • Followers: 2
  • Running
  • BBC Two
  • Tuesday at 20
  • Documentary Reality

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Season 3
3x1
Episode 1
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 13, 2019
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 in Co Down, Northern Ireland - and buffalo farmer Stevie Mitchell returns.
3x2
Episode 2
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 20, 2019
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 a clear TB test and buffalo farmer Stevie goes shopping in Holland.
3x3
Episode 3
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 27, 2019
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 at the croft. The Beast from the East wreaks havoc on Stevie’s buffalo farm.
3x4
Episode 4
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Air date
Mar 06, 2019
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’s calves to market.
3x5
Episode 5
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Air date
Mar 13, 2019
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’s farm.
3x6
Episode 6
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Air date
Mar 14, 2019
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 the fields and the Rodgers take young heifer Nadia to the Balmoral Show.
3x7
Episode 7
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Air date
Jul 25, 2019
Raymond tests the market for his cross-bred valais blacknose sheep. Lynn and Sandra go to their first ever auction to buy sheep and hens for the croft.
3x8
Episode 8
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Air date
Aug 01, 2019
Lynn and Sandra face the danger of a drought on the croft. Stevie’s buffalo herd go for a cooling dip in the loch. And at the Royal Highland Show, Raymond and Johnny aim high with their Charolais, while Aimee puts her pony skills to the test.
3x9
Episode 9
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Air date
Aug 08, 2019
Lynn and Sandra harvest their first honey. The Rodgers give bull Mario a send-off. Raymond’s flock is under threat from flystrike, and 50 of Stevie’s buffalo escape.
3x10
Episode 10
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Air date
Aug 15, 2019
Raymond and a team of volunteers give the valais blacknose sheep a bath. Kirsty and Tom rescue fallen sheep on the isle. Stevie attempts to milk his first buffalo.
3x11
Episode 11
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Air date
Aug 22, 2019
It is autumn and in the Highlands, Raymond’s bull Major, who was injured earlier in the year, finally goes to work but getting him to the field of cows involves a soggy .. show full overview
3x12 Season finale
Episode 12
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 05, 2019
In the Highlands, new crofters Lynn and Sandra welcome more new sheep and take delivery of a batch of hens that they hope will lay the foundations of an egg empire. In Northern .. show full overview

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