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Landward: 2024: Episode 1

Episode 1

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As the farming season gets under way, Dougie attends the annual spring show at Thainstone.

As the farming season gets under way, Dougie attends the annual spring show at Thainstone. Meanwhile, Cammy takes a trip to Arran to scan pregnant sheep.

The Landward team returns for the new spring series. They will be digging deep into the issues and stories from across the Scottish countryside, celebrating farming, food, wildlife, environment and lots more.

In this episode, Dougie is at Thainstone Mart in Aberdeenshire, where he attends the first agricultural gathering of the year: the annual spring show. Combining top livestock, machinery and trade stands, the show is a key social gathering that kickstarts the farming year. At a packed auction, Dougie sees some top cattle go under the hammer and finds out what a prize-winning champion neep looks like.

Ahead of this year’s lambing, Cammy takes a trip to Arran to scan pregnant sheep. He has just one day to scan nearly 2,000 ewes, but time is tight, and he is under pressure to make it in time for the last ferry home.

Elsewhere, Rosie heads to Ayrshire to meet the couple who swapped the heat of the Middle East for the bracing cold of Scotland to set up a deer farm.

Following the wettest winter on record, Arlene is in Aberdeenshire to meet the scientists taking a lesson from nature when it comes to tackling flooding. She discovers that what you do upstream can have a very big effect downstream.

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