Opinion

Jessica Rippon, 24, is a farm consultant at The Farm Consultancy Group and she is from Nottingham

Neil Lindsay is managing director at BLC Energy, a renewable energy development company specialising in utility scale solar PV and co-located battery storage projects across the UK

Calum Smith, 28, from Grantown-on-Spey in Moray is a beef farmer

AHDB have made an official complaint to Ofcom regarding Channel 4's The Big British Beef Battle

"British farmers are more than just farmers, they are a lifeline for the country"

"In order to make farms more sustainable, farmers have faced heightened pressure to diversify or change their practices to attain another income stream"

Liz Tree, 25, is a farmer from Croydon in South London: "My own experiences of seeing farms at a young age had completely changed the course of my life"

Dr Marius Ostrowski, executive director of the Lifelong Learning Institute, said the agri-food sector 'needs significant investment in the qualifications and skills system which are the backbone of the UK's future productivity'

Rachel Barr, 20, from Dumfries and Galloway, is a beef and sheep farmer

George Elliott, 23, is a farmer from Ashbourne in Derbyshire