Young Farmer Focus - Leighton Snelgrove: "Farming is an arduous task where you have to be a bookkeeper, a vet, a midwife, an agronomist and so much more"

Leighton Snelgrove, 24, is a beef and sheep farmer from Nutley in Sussex.

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Leighton Snelgrove is a farm manager in Sussex and also volunteers at the Farming Community Network to support the mental health of farmers
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Leighton Snelgrove is a farm manager in Sussex and also volunteers at the Farming Community Network to support the mental health of farmers

I am a farm manager at an organic beef farm in Sussex. The farm turned organic in 1999 and we run 40 breeding pedigree Sussex cows, producing beef for Duchy Waitrose. I also have my own flock of...

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