Young Farmer Focus

Catherine Hynd, 27, is from Jedburgh, Scottish Borders. She graduated from Heriot-Watt University with a degree in business management and is working towards becoming a rural bookkeeper.

William Lea, 24, is a poultry farmer based at Church Stretton, Shropshire, and works for Lloyds Animal Feeds.

Martha Hayes, 24, is manager of media and communications at Innovation for Agriculture, which she does alongside running her herd of Lincoln Red cattle and helping out with the family farm in Lincolnshire.

Connor Tindall-Read is a 24-year-old tractor driver who has worked on the Holkham Estate, North Norfolk, for the past four years.

Rachel Murdoch, 27, is a shepherd on an estate in Ryedale, North Yorkshire.

Harriet Bartlett is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge and a recently appointed NFU Student and Young Farmer Ambassador. She is based in Epping, Essex.

Tom Bruce, 27, lives in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Brought up on the family farm, he studied a masters in engineering and is now back working the land.

Flavian Obiero, 29, is a pig unit manager at Plumpton College in East Sussex.

Matt Styles is 25 and lives and works on a 1600 acre arable farm in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Along with his wife Floss, he runs a flock of 70 sheep.