Young Farmer Focus: Archie Benson - "Our apple juice is sold at Jeremy Clarkson's Diddly Squat Farm Shop"

Archie Benson, 22, is studying Agriculture at Harper Adams University and he is from Sherborne in the Cotswolds

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"My main passion is tending to livestock."
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"My main passion is tending to livestock."

I grew up on a National Trust farm, just outside a small village called Sherborne in the Cotswolds, where my parents make apple juice. We had a few animals around the farm while I was growing up, including...

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