Young Farmers and Careers

When opportunity knocked, Damian Barson answered. His lifelong dream of becoming a farmer has recently become a reality after being given the chance to farm 26 hectares (64 acres) at Warton, near Preston, Lancashire.

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.

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. 

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

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.