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

Chris Brayford
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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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