Fferm Ffactor

Synopsis

A series to find the best farmer in Wales. Ten farmers are each given a key to the main prize, a brand new 4x4. If they don't please the judges, they have to give back their key and leave the competition.

Over the course of the contest, the farmers will be tested on practical and theoretical skills. Expect to see traditional tests, like shearing a sheep and milking a cow. Expect to see gentle inquisitions, tests of memory and general farming knowledge. And, as the business of farming is a business, expect to see tests of marketing and advertising.

There are serious points, there are laughs along the way, there's even a tractor converted into a "confessional cab". Each episode ends with a very staged elimination in a barn.

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Champions

2009 Aled Rees
2010 Teifi Jenkins
2011 Malcolm Davies
2012 Dilwyn Owen
2013 Gwenno Pugh
2014 Roy Edwards

Trivia

Fferm Ffactor tapped into a rural-agricultural experience shared amongst the Welsh-speaking heartland. It proved sufficiently adaptable to be picked up by Irish-language channel TG4. We're not aware that it's been shown in an English-language version.

One-shot spin-off show Her y Ffermwyr Ifanc asked teams of four farming students (couldn't be all male, one of school age) to compete on an obstacle course, based on a regular task in the opening episode. Pulling a tyre or steering a trailer of straw is the sort of thing a farmer might do; rescuing eggs from a hen house while the hen fires a water pistol, less so. It went out in an early Saturday evening slot where we might see Total Wipeout.

Web links

Official site (English version)

See also

Weaver's Week review (2013)

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