Young Farmers and Careers

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.

BASF Agricultural Solutions has won the Crop Science Award for the Best Public Outreach Programme category for its public advocacy campaign,Farming, The Biggest Job on Earth.

BASF Agricultural Solutions has won the Crop Science Award for the “Best Public Outreach Programme” category for its public advocacy campaign,?‘Farming, The Biggest Job on Earth’.

A new Agricultural Growth Zone has been created to boost support for Lincolnshire and Rutland’s farming and producing sectors.

Emily Mosley, 23, is originally from Derbyshire, but currently works as a farm administrator for Fearn Farm in Tain in the Scottish Highlands. She is also the current vice-chair of Ross-Sutherland Young Farmers Club.

Women are being put off farming because of a perception that the work is unsuitable for them, according to a new Scottish Government report.

Perry Parkinson, 28, is from Northumberland, but works as a head shepherd for the Barony college farm, SRUC in Dumfries, Scotland.