Young Farmer Focus

Lee Robb, 29, works at Ladyyard Farm, Mauchline, Ayrshire. He is a Crossroads YFC member, past Ayrshire District chairman and a current Ayrshire representative for agri and rural affairs.

Joe Bramall, 20, is from a 162-hectare (400-acre) dairy farm, milking 240 cows, outside of Chester, Cheshire. He studies agri-business at Harper Adams university and is an NFU Student and Young Farmer Ambassador.

Catherine McKenna, 26, works on her family sheep farm in Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

Olivia Holt, 25, from Thorton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, works on two dairy farms as well as at home on her father’s suckler beef farm.

Catherine Hynd, 27, is from Jedburgh, Scottish Borders. She graduated from Heriot-Watt University with a degree in business management and is working towards becoming a rural bookkeeper.

William Lea, 24, is a poultry farmer based at Church Stretton, Shropshire, and works for Lloyds Animal Feeds.

Martha Hayes, 24, is manager of media and communications at Innovation for Agriculture, which she does alongside running her herd of Lincoln Red cattle and helping out with the family farm in Lincolnshire.

Connor Tindall-Read is a 24-year-old tractor driver who has worked on the Holkham Estate, North Norfolk, for the past four years.

Rachel Murdoch, 27, is a shepherd on an estate in Ryedale, North Yorkshire.

Harriet Bartlett is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge and a recently appointed NFU Student and Young Farmer Ambassador. She is based in Epping, Essex.