Farm Crime
Farm Crime is a true crime documentary series exploring the largely unseen dark side of Canada’s agriculture industry. Each episode examines a case that wouldn’t typically make the front page. Instead of kidnappings, cold cases and serial killers, the series examines the fascinating, lesser-known incidents that unfold in the margins – the fields, farms and unassuming small towns that dot the Canadian countryside. Rare sheep gone missing. Potatoes sabotaged with sewing needles. A multi-million-dollar pigeon breeding Ponzi scheme. These are farm crimes, and they exact a real toll on rural victims who don’t always get their due. Farm Crime approaches these stories with respectful curiosity, focusing on the people at the centre of the incidents, seeking answers, closure and justice.
Episodes
Runtime: 20m
When Guardians from the Wei Wai Kum First Nation discover evidence of timber poaching in their territory, they sound the alarm to protect the remaining old growth and bring the poachers to justice.
Runtime: 26m
An entrepreneurial farmer known as the Pigeon King comes up with a proposal for farmers to make money by breeding pigeons, but investigative journalists suspect his deal may be too good to be true.
Runtime: 20m
An infamous colony of rescued rabbits from the University of Victoria face execution after they escape from their sanctuary onto a nearby farm, putting themselves and the farmer in the crosshairs.
Runtime: 18m
Following a string of bad cheques across Alberta and Saskatchewan, an RCMP Livestock Investigator must pin down a prolific fraudster and deliver justice to the farmers who were deceived.
Runtime: 17m
When sewing needles start turning up in world-famous Prince Edward Island potatoes, the island’s farmers, industry leaders and RCMP race to catch the culprits before they strike again.
Runtime: 22m
Ontario shepherd Montana Jones fights to protect her flock of rare Shropshire sheep from a government agency that alleges the animals are diseased - until the sheep mysteriously vanish in the night.
