Young Farmer Focus: Matt Styles - 'It feels so rewarding to build something out of nothing'

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.

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Young Farmer Focus: Matt Styles - 'It feels so rewarding to build something out of nothing'

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. Getting started Getting started was not easy...

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