Timo Cooper - Young Farmer Focus: "I think you have to accept mistakes do happen and it is a very natural process of learning a job"

Timo Cooper, 20, is from the village of Great Paxton in Cambridgeshire and is a student at The Royal Agricultural University

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Timo Cooper said he hopes to progress his career into farm management following the completion of his studies at the Royal Agricultural University
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Timo Cooper said he hopes to progress his career into farm management following the completion of his studies at the Royal Agricultural University

I am originally from Cambridgeshire and was not born into a farming family. The agricultural industry is bursting with generations of family farmers, so when I became interested in creating a progressive...

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