Young Farmers and Careers

Charlotte Taylor, 27, is Wiltshire Young Farmers County Chair and farms beef cattle alongside a floristry business.

Olivia Richardson, near Darlington, on the North Yorkshire and Durham border, is vice-chair of the NFU Next Generation Forum.

Research by The Prince’s Countryside Fund shows barriers new entrants face.

EX-teacher Ionela Bacioiu (known as Dana) has become the UK’s first female to complete her Level 2 FDQ Abattoir Worker Apprenticeship, blazing a trail for other women to carve out a career in the meat sector. 

It is not the usual thing to be able to willingly walk through the doors of a prison for any given reason. But what is more unusual is to see a working mixed farm.

Joe Bramall, 22, is a final-year student at Harper Adams studying agri-business.

I have joined the NFU, which is not a phrase I ever thought I’d say.

Meg Goring, 22, is from Tosside, North Yorkshire. She works as a key accounts manager in external sales for Woodheads Bros, Morrisons.

A love for the Jersey breed, and the nostalgic taste of traditional Jersey milk, has seen one young farmer in Cumbria develop a flourishing on-farm dairy business.

Sophie Bould-Lynch, 24, is a farmer and Red Tractor auditor from Yelverton, Devon.