Agricultural show 'This Farming Life' back on screens tomorrow

The series will run for four weeks on BBC 2 (Photo: BBC)
The series will run for four weeks on BBC 2 (Photo: BBC)

The popular BBC Two series 'This Farming Life' is back and will begin airing on screens tomorrow.

The farming programme gives viewers an insight into the spectacle of UK agriculture experienced by five new farming families across Scotland, while revisiting one from last year's series.

The second series episodes will include new entrant farmers Janet and Alastair from the Isle of Mull, who take their lambs to auction.

In Dumfries and Galloway, three generations of the Roan dairy-farming family enter a cow and a young heifer into competition at the South West Scotland Dairy Show.

In Argyll, hill farmers David and Sandra prepare for autumn by gathering in their sheep for a mineral dose and spreading slurry.

And in the far north in the Highlands, crofters Robin and Penny's cattle are tested for bovine TB.

Covering a year in the lives of its subjects, the show proved to be a huge hit in 2016, quickly gaining a large and passionate audience.

The series, consisting of twelve hour-long episodes broadcast over four weeks, was not only popular with viewers, it was embraced by the UK farming community for showing farming “as it really is”.

This Farming Life also went on to win the Scottish BAFTA for Best Factual Series, and fans of the show even raised a petition to Government calling for more episodes.

The series will run for four weeks on BBC 2, with episodes airing on Wednesdays, Fridays and Mondays.