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The Farmers' Country Showdown: Series 5: Melton Mowbray

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BBC One - The Farmers' Country Showdown, Series 5, Melton Mowbray

Our farmers are selling their rams at Melton Mowbray livestock market.

At one of the UK's oldest livestock markets in Melton Mowbray, sheep farmers Elizabeth and Mitchel, with fellow sellers Sheila and Julia, are hoping to sell their breeding rams.

At one of the UK's oldest and biggest livestock markets in the town of Melton Mowbray, young sheep farmer Elizabeth – with her partner Mitchel - is hoping to impress her dad by selling four of their breeding rams, while experienced mum Sheila and daughter Julie intend to cement their national reputation for sheep breeding by selling theirs. 

The Farmers' Country Showdown: Series 5

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This heart-warming series returns to follow a new group of inspirational farming families.

This heart-warming series returns to follow a new group of inspirational farming families as they work tirelessly to bring their prized produce to events up and down the UK.

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