Young farmer focus: Benjamin Middlewood - 'Explaining the effects of a so-called 'invisible' illness is not always easy'

Benjamin Middlewood, 24, works on his family’s 182-hectare (450-acre) arable farm in Driffield, Yorkshire Wolds. They grow a typical range of combinable crops, as well as vining peas for a local group, and sugar beet for the Newark factory.

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Young farmer focus: Benjamin Middlewood - 'Explaining the effects of a so-called 'invisible' illness is not always easy'

Benjamin Middlewood, 24, works on his familys 182-hectare (450-acre) arable farm in Driffield, Yorkshire Wolds. They grow a typical range of combinable crops, as well as vining peas for a local group,...

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