Young Farmer Focus

Born a farmers daughter, I cannot recall exactly when my love for farming first began I would spend every evening after school and weekends out on the farm with my parents and grandparents.

Hamish Evans, 25, a farmer and head grower at Middle Ground Growers, from Bath, Somerset.

Matthew Ingram, 26, is from Tamworth, Staffordshire and a member of Coleshill YFC in Warwickshire.

Michael Burley, 27, works as a head shepherd on an upland farm running 750 ewes and 80 head of cattle in the Rhondda Valleys, South Wales.

Clover Crosse, 25 is second in command on a 530ha arable farm near Salisbury.

Rhea Auton, 22, is studying to become a land agent in Northumberland.

Emily Jones, 24, is a safety adviser with CXCS, based in Herefordshire.

James Nixey, 26, is from Chinnor, Oxfordshire and works as a self-employed electrician while supporting and getting stuck in on the family’s mixed farm.

Eleanor Durdy, 28, works on a family-run arable farm alongside being a criminal barrister.

Rhianna Deeble, 30, from London, draws her earliest experiences of farming from the time spent with her grandmother in Somerset. After graduating from Aberystwyth University, she found her dream job and her own farming story began.