Young Farmers and Careers

Young people working in Scotland’s food and drink industry are being encouraged to enter this year’s ‘Inspirational Young Person Award’, which has been launched by NFU Mutual.

Nearly 4,000 school children in Surrey and Sussex are being offered the chance to find out more about farming thanks to the Loan a Lamb initiative.

James Nixey, 26, is from Chinnor, Oxfordshire and works as a self-employed electrician while supporting and getting stuck in on the family’s mixed farm.

Few farmers can keep beef cows as economically as Duncan and Claire Morrison at Meikle Maldron, an upland farm near Torphins in Aberdeenshire. Ewan Pate reports.

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Eleanor Durdy, 28, works on a family-run arable farm alongside being a criminal barrister.

More than 15,000 has so far been raised by a concerned Clarkson’s Farm viewer in support of a dairy farmer whose herd has been hit by bovine TB.

More than £15,000 has so far been raised by a concerned Clarksons Farm viewer in support of a dairy farmer whose herd has been hit by bovine TB.

Rhianna Deeble, 30, from London, draws her earliest experiences of farming from the time spent with her grandmother in Somerset. After graduating from Aberystwyth University, she found her dream job and her own farming story began.

Gwenllian Evans, 15, is from Ceredigion, West Wales and is currently studying for her GCSEs.