Young Farmer Focus - Molly Mead: "We have lost 12 animals to bovine TB"

Molly Mead, 24, is a veterinary technician and TB tester from Tring, Hertfordshire

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Molly Mead is an NFU student and Young Farmer ambassador
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Molly Mead is an NFU student and Young Farmer ambassador

I live on my family's mixed-arable farm in Hertfordshire, where we have Aberdeen-Angus beef cattle and breeding ewes. The business has diversified in a variety of ways, including having its very own...

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