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Young Farmer Focus - Katy Walsh: "The pressures of rural isolation and responsibility can be overwhelming"

Warwickshire Young Farmers' Club county chair Katy Walsh discusses how she fell in love with farming and the countryside, the challenge of leading a Young Farmers' Club, and overcoming rural isolation

Chris Brayford
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Katy Walsh, 25, is from Rugby in Warwickshire. She is currently serving as county chair at Warwickshire Young Farmers' Club.
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Katy Walsh, 25, is from Rugby in Warwickshire. She is currently serving as county chair at Warwickshire Young Farmers' Club.

I did not grow up on a traditional working farm, but I was always surrounded by rural life. My mother is a farmer's daughter and grew up on a farm and my father worked on another local farm for many...

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