Behind the udderly miraculous success of On The Farm
They emerged as unlikely heroes of lockdown: a farming family in Yorkshire who showed, even as the country was brought to a halt by Covid, that life went on when it came to rearing animals. Rob and Dave Nicholson of Cannon Hall Farm in Cawthorne, Barnsley, the stars of Channel 5’s On the Farm, kept millions of isolated viewers entertained with daily live broadcasts on social media.