Springtime on the Farm

1. Episode 1

Air Date: 2018-04-09

Adam Henson and Lindsey Chapman celebrate the hard work of farmers around the country battling all year round to keep providing food for the nation's tables, and are joined by Yorkshire Vet stars Peter Wright and Julian Norton. In the first edition, there is a look behind the scenes at how the show's hosts at Cannon Hall Farm near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, stay afloat as a business, and bring over a thousand lambs into the world. Plus, Gloria Hunniford recalls childhood days on her granny's farm in Northern Ireland, and actor Kelvin Fletcher mucks out on a dairy farm.

2. Episode 2

Air Date: 2018-04-10

JLS member-turned-farmer JB Gill helps out on a night shift. A highland cattle farmer reveals the efforts it takes to tend his flock, and Gloria gets a tasty treat or two as she tours Cannon Hall's kitchen.

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 2018-04-11

Celebrating the hard work of farmers around the country, who battle all year round to keep providing food for the nation's tables. This time, Three sisters from East Yorkshire reveal their pioneering pig farming techniques, and Kelvin tries his hand at working with a sheepdog. Meanwhile, JB Gill learns about a cheese making process.

4. Episode 4

Air Date: 2018-04-12

A report from the lamb hospital at Barnsley's Cannon Hall Farm, a host of newborn chicks get a check-up and JB Gill looks at the rise in alpaca farming. Presented by Peter Wright, Julian Norton and Adam Henson.

5. Episode 5

Air Date: 2018-04-13

The final programme celebrating the hard work of the great British farmer, who battle all year round to keep providing food to go on the nation's tables. Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher gets to go on a date in a rhubarb triangle, plus there are updates from all of the stories covered earlier in the week.

1. Episode 1

Air Date: 2019-04-08

The return of the programme celebrating the hard work of farmers around the country, checking in with them on every day of the busiest week of the year from the base at Cannon Hall Farm in Barnsley.

2. Episode 2

Air Date: 2019-04-09

Coverage from Cannon Hall Farm in Barnsley, where former Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher lends a hand, while colleague Dominic Brunt spends time with Peter Wright and Julian Norton, stars of The Yorkshire Vet.

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 2019-04-10

Celebrating the hard work of farmers around the country, who battle all year round to keep providing food for the nation's tables.

4. Episode 4

Air Date: 2019-04-11

5. Episode 5

Air Date: 2019-04-12

The final programme celebrating the hard work of the great British farmer, who battle all year round to keep providing food to go on the nation's tables. Former Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher once again lends a hand at Cannon Hall Farm in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, where the week-long series has been based.

1. Episode 1

Air Date: 2020-04-13

The return of the programme celebrating the hard work of farmers around the country, with Helen Skelton and Adam Henson seeing how they are responding to the Covid-19 crisis, and showing how nature carries on regardless. Working safely within the new social distancing guidelines, Helen presents from her Yorkshire country garden and Adam from his Cotswold farm, while Cannon Hall Farm's Rob and Dave Nicholson will be filming the all-important lambings themselves as they attempt to catch all of the last-minute action.

2. Episode 2

Air Date: 2020-04-14

Helen Skelton and Adam Henson continue their celebration of the hard work of farmers around the country, seeing how they are responding to the Covid-19 crisis, and showing how nature carries on regardless. Working safely within the new social distancing guidelines, Helen presents from her Yorkshire country garden and Adam from his Cotswold farm. JP Gill becomes a vet for the day, and alpacas and Stirling bulls put in an appearance.

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 2020-04-15

Helen Skelton and Adam Henson continue their celebration of the hard work of farmers around the country, seeing how they are responding to the Covid-19 crisis, and showing how nature carries on regardless. This episode follows a 24-year-old farmer as he prepares for one of his cows to give birth, and another farmer who is trying to get his land back to normal after it had been flooded.

4. Episode 4

Air Date: 2020-04-16

The final programme celebrating the hard work of the great British farmer. Helen Skelton and Adam Henson present reports about Cumbrian cows and a goat playground, and JB Gill visits a shepherdess who demonstrates how she trains sheepdogs.

1. Episode 1

Air Date: 2021-04-05

Helen Skelton and Adam Henson return with the programme celebrating the hard work of farmers, following them as they prepare for the lambing season. From his own farm in the Cotswolds, Adam gives his horses and ponies a springtime MOT to make sure they've shaken off any winter blues, while at Cannon Hall Farm in South Yorkshire, Helen and Jules Hudson are on hand as brothers Rob and Dave Nicholson try to keep their heads above water in the lambing sheds.

2. Episode 2

Air Date: 2021-04-06

Adam Henson celebrates the `golden fleece' of the rare-breed Cotswold sheep that brought wealth to the region, while in South Yorkshire, Helen Skelton and Jules Hudson join farmers Rob and Dave Nicholson as they face a pig emergency. Elsewhere, Plus, The Yorkshire Vet's Shona Searson tries to save a sow and her litter of piglets and sheep farmer Phil Heard dons his ten-gallon hat to drive his flock onto Dartmoor, cowboy-style.

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 2021-04-07

At Cannon Hall Farm, Helen Skelton and Jules Hudson witness dramatic arrivals as farmers Rob and Dave Nicholson welcome some `new kids' on the block. JB Gill visits the final contender in the Young Farmer of the Year contest, 28-year-old Adam Walton, who is following in his late father's footsteps to helm the family pig farm, while in north Wales, teenage champion shepherdess Erin McNaught is handed the reins by her retiring grandfather - right in the middle of lambing season.

4. Episode 4

Air Date: 2021-04-08

The final programme, Adam Henson is hoping one of his pregnant pigs will boost the future of the rare Large Black breed, and JB Gill reveals the Young Farmer of the Year. Plus, Rob and Dave rescue a rejected lamb.

1. Episode 1

Air Date: 2022-04-18

Helen Skelton, Adam Henson and Jules Hudson present the series that celebrates the UK's farmers during Spring, their busiest season. Adam delivers a pair of Boer goat kid twins.

2. Episode 2

Air Date: 2022-04-19

Helen and Jules Hudson are surrounded by new arrivals as farming brothers Rob and Dave Nicholson are in a fight for survival as they are faced with the difficult labour of triplet lambs.

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 2022-04-20

Tonight we witness the resident alpacas during their springtime mating and farming brothers Rob and Dave face a battle for survival as they care for Young Farmer Joes pregnant ewes.

4. Episode 4

Air Date: 2022-04-21

Adam introduces us to one of his newest farm residents, a newborn calf. Rob and Dave are waiting on tenterhooks for two big arrivals, a newborn calf and a shire horse foal.

1. Episode 1

Air Date: 2023-04-11

Featuring Cannon Hall Farm where more than 1000 animals come into the world each spring.

2. Episode 2

Air Date: 2023-04-12

Adam Henson introduces us to a donkey foal as he begins the task of halter training. Rob and Dave Nicholson face a tough day as one of their prize cows struggles to deliver twin calves.

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 2023-04-13

Adam Henson is back in the lambing barn as the wave of births hits a new high. Yorkshire Vet Rohin Aojula attends a life-or-death emergency as a pygmy goat struggles to give birth.

4. Episode 4

Air Date: 2023-04-14

Adam Henson gets to grips with his Highland Bull as he gets his annual spring manicure. Helen Skelton and Jules Hudson join Rob and Dave Nicholson in the farm's makeshift animal A&E.

5. Episode 5

Air Date: 2023-04-18

A rare type of Swiss sheep is in danger, and a foal fights to recover froma difficult birth. Adam Henson reports from his Cotswolds farm, and we visit a remote farm in the Pennies.

6. Episode 6

Air Date: 2023-04-19

The farmers work through the night to keep up with the lambing. Shire horse Blossom heads to a stud farm in search of a new mate, and our cameras head to the wild North York Moors.

7. Episode 7

Air Date: 2023-04-20

Adam Henson has some urgent work to do with his herd of dairy cows, and our camera head to South Wales to visit a farmer who cares for stunning wild ponies.

8. Episode 8

Air Date: 2023-04-21

Excitement mounts as Coco the cow gets ready to give birth, farmer Ruth takes her precious Shire horse Rosie to her first country show, and it's busier than ever at Adam Henson's farm.

1. Episode 1

Air Date: 2024-04-15

The series returns for the biggest lambing season yet, as Channel 5 delivers an avalanche of new life in a week of thrills and spills. Rob and Dave start lambing their 250-strong flock.

2. Episode 2

Air Date: 2024-04-16

Rob and Dave Nicholson welcome the arrival of a shire foal, JB Gill looks at how the sea can help heal the body and soul, and chef Tim Bilton hand harvests the superfood kale.

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 2024-04-17

Bambi, the pregnant miniature donkey, is due to give birth any day now. And we meet a jockey who found solace in farming following a devastating accident on the racecourse.

4. Episode 4

Air Date: 2024-04-18

Rob and Dave Nicholson treat a very poorly ewe about to give birth, plus they meet a skilled stone carver. JB Gill heads to the Jurassic coast to unearth some prehistoric wonders.

5. Episode 5

Air Date: 2024-04-19

Helen and Jules cover all the drama of a day with births all around, from Bonnie the Highland Cow going into labour early, to Penelope popping out her piglets.

1. Episode 1

Air Date: 2025-04-15

The highs and lows of modern farming at Cannon Hall Farm in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, with Helen Skelton, Jules Hudson and JB Gill leading the way. JB Gill explores a green revolution taking root down some forgotten back streets in Manchester and, in honour of 75 years since the Land Girls Army, there is a celebration of the women in farming keeping the nation fed today.

2. Episode 2

Air Date: 2025-04-16

Rob and Dave Nicholson welcome the arrival of a shire foal to their beloved mare, Sapphire. The pint-sized farmers taking the countryside by storm are introduced, as well as six-year-old Olivia, who isn't scared of getting her hands dirty. Helen, JB Gill and Jules also have their hands full bottle feeding five orphaned goats.

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 2025-04-17

Helen Skelton meets a donkey foal at Cannon Hall Farm that had a dramatic journey into the world, while JB Gill talks to a farmer giving a voice to those often under-represented in agriculture. Plus, there are plenty of births at the farm with Rob and Dave Nicholson.

4. Episode 4

Air Date: 2025-04-18

On their farm in South Yorkshire, brothers Rob and Dave Nicholson have to look after a very poorly cow about to give birth. Jules Hudson heads off into the great outdoors to soak up the magic of spring, while there's an egg hunt on around the farm in the spirit of Easter.