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Feirm Factor - on TG4

  • 07-01-2010 12:06pm
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    JP Liz
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    FEIRM FACTOR’S brand new 10 part series for TG4 begins Thursday January 14th 2010.

    Early 2009 saw the launch of the new TG4 programme Feirm Factor.
    The groundbreaking series took 12 farmers from across the country and challenged their farming skills, business acumen and physical and mental endurance.
    Now Feirm Factor is back for a second series…along with another brand new Land Rover Discovery!

    Who is Ireland’s premiere farmer? Is he, or maybe even she, a good representative of Ireland’s ever demanding agricultural workforce?
    The groundbreaking new ten part television series will give the people of Ireland another insight into the world of today’s Irish farmer. Produced for TG4 by Good Company Productions, the series requires the contestants to prove their worth as farmers through a myriad of tasks and wider world challenges. As the farmers travel throughout the country we view Ireland at its best as Feirm Factor bases itself in the various Agricultural Colleges Nationwide.

    2009 saw 12 strong and worthy contestants raise the bar for Season 2. This year the tasks will be bigger, the challenges tougher, and each of the chosen 12 will not only be forced to face their strengths and weaknesses head on, but will also be expected to continually prove their salt as a farmer and agricultural entrepreneur in order to keep their place within the competition.

    With the success of series one, applications for series two came flooding in. After the difficult task of reducing hundreds of applicants to only 12, TG4 and Good Company Productions were confident they had a final bunch of contestants we could all be proud of. Hailing from Meath, Longford, Mayo, Tipperary, Cork, Kerry, Donegal and Oxford England, the aspiring twelve were more than capable of making their own mark in the world of Irish farming.

    Each week will see the farm friendly twelve battle it out in a carefully selected series of tasks and missions to determine who gets to stand their ground for another week and move closer to winning the fantastic top prize of a Land Rover Discovery, and of course the title of Feirm Factor Champion.
    The decisions will be made by Feirm Factor’s three resident judges, presenter and TV personality Maura Deranne, former Minister for Agriculture Alan Dukes and Cork based dairy farmer Sean O’ Lionaird.
    The trio will carefully assess each farmer and the tasks they complete in order to each week confidently eliminate one of the aspiring contestants.

    The challenges and tasks are tough and will compel the farmers to evaluate their own accomplishments and farming experience. We will see them undertake a variety of farm related projects , such as cattle dosing, selling, fencing, welding, computing, tractor skills, weighing and pricing animals as well as testing their business acumen and market sense. This is just a fraction of the multitude of duties the contestants will be assigned throughout the programme, and many of the tasks will enlighten and introduce viewers into the extensive and backbreaking vocation of the Irish farmer.

    A selection of guest judges will be making appearances throughout the series, offering their own expertise and experience to the contestants whilst helping the three main judges make their final elimination decisions. In series two Feirm Factor will travel to Cork, Kilkenny, Galway, Tipperary, Cavan, Wicklow and the Aran Islands. This picture postcard journey of Ireland gives an uninterrupted view of our homeland in all its beauty, rural Ireland has never been so appealing.

    The series will be another roller coaster through the farmyards and agricultural college’s of Ireland. It will be an exploration into Ireland’s oldest and most necessary profession, infusing traditional farming with the modern farming businesses of today.
    Whatever you believed you knew about farming forget it, prepare yourself to be acquainted with a world you thought you understood but in reality knew nothing about.

    FEIRM FACTOR’S brand new 10 part series for TG4 begins 9:30pm Thursday January 14th 2010 with repeats following Saturday @ 7:15pm.


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