Farmer Wants A Wife: Fans promised the real deal after last season’s stunt farms

The hit matchmaking show has introduced a new ban this season after last year’s farmers were discovered to be grazing cattle hundreds of kilometres from home.

Channel 7’s rural romeo’s show, Farmer Wants A Wife, will be a fake farm free zone this year.

Last year the Sunday Herald Sun uncovered the show’s dirty little secret – that two of that year’s farmer’s were wooing their potential partners on farms that were not theirs and were hundreds of kilometres, and in different states, from the properties they did own.

A third farmer was also based on a borrowed farm during filming as they did not have acreage of their own.

Paige Marsh is a 28-year-old sheep and cattle farmer from last year’s Farmer Wants A Wife. Picture: Supplied

A show insider has now confirmed this season there will be no stunt farms and what viewers see will be real reality – the hay the couples roll in is actually owned by the farmer.

Seven resorted to the stand in farms last season because of the Covid restrictions that were still in place when the series was filmed.

The network is confident it has plenty of country loving to offer fans when the show launches on April 10, so much so it is marketing the show with the line that all the farmers find love this year.