Young Farmer Focus

Jasmine Underwood, 18, is from Bruton, Somerset, and works as a dairy farmer in Wells, Somerset.

Caryl Davies, 18, grew up on her family’s farm in Eglwyswrw, North Pembrokeshire, and is also a student at Aberystwyth University.

Hannah Buisman, 24, is from an arable family farm in Welwyn, Hertfordshire. She now manages the vineyard on their farm.

Matthew Donald, 30, from Northallerton in North Yorkshire, runs a farrow to finish pig unit, alongside two broiler breeder farms producing fertile hatching eggs for the broiler industry.

Dan Hawes, 26, is based in Mereworth, Kent. He is an arable turned fruit farmer, growing strawberries and blackberries as part of a larger farming business.

Rachael Wood, 22, grew up on a beef and arable farm in Kinross-shire. She currently works in the rural payments and inspections division for the Scottish Government and is the SAYFC Fife and Kinross District Secretary.

Catriona Dickson, 21, is from County Durham but currently lives in Aberdeen as a Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) student studying rural business management.

Liz King, 28, splits her time between Whitland, Carmarthenshire and the family farm in Glastonbury, Somerset and works full time as a project officer at The Prince’s Countryside Fund.

Rachel Cooper, 27, is Shropshire’s YFC county chair. She hails from Whitchurch, North Shropshire but now lives in Bridgnorth on her partner’s sheep and arable farm.

Holly Andrews, 22, is from Ansley, North Warwickshire. She is undertaking a placement year with Premier Nutrition as a transition management assessor as part of her studies at Harper Adams University.