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Young Farmer Focus - Daniel Blacker: "Legislation has been a consistent roadblock"

Daniel Blacker is passionate about creating extra revenue streams for farmers, having helped work on his diversified family farm which now runs holiday cottages

Mia Willemsen
News and business reporter
clock • 3 min read
Daniel Blacker, 29, is from York and currently studying at the Royal Agricultural University
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Daniel Blacker, 29, is from York and currently studying at the Royal Agricultural University

Growing up in York I spent a lot of my time around farms as my family have always been involved with the agricultural world in one way or another. It wasn't until my late teens that my parents bought a...

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