Young Farmer

Ifan Roberts is a new entrant who has established a contract farming agreement milking 500 block calving cows in Cheshire, and is aiming to improve the land farmed, encourage others to participate in the industry and deliver attractive returns to his stakeholders

With no experience in the sector and an unused poultry building to fill, Esme Marsh took a chance on a pig finishing scheme and has not looked back

Henry Morris is seven-and-a-half years of age, and everyone knows he is mad about farming

Milly Denning, 23, is from Bath in Somerset. She is currently studying an MSc in sustainable agriculture and food security at the Royal Agricultural University

Tori Squire, 22, is a third-generation beef and sheep farmer from Newton Abbot in Devon

Reggie Deakin, 21, is an assistant farm manager at Wigborough Wick Farm in St Osyth, Essex

Lewis Thomas, 17, is owner of Chickwood Poultry. He is from Coed Cyw Fawr Farm in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire

Ifan Roberts is a new entrant who has established a contract farming agreement milking 500 block calving cows in Cheshire, and is aiming to improve the land farmed, encourage others to participate in the industry and deliver attractive returns to his stakeholders

Jodie Nutsford from Western Holstein Young Breeders (HYB) was announced as the winner of the 2025 award

The first generation beef and sheep farmer from Sussex writes about mental health in agriculture, educating the public about the importance of farming, and meeting King Charles at Clarence House last year