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Floss Styles, 30, is the founder of the First Generation Farmers Group on Facebook. From two sheep to 60, she is building up a farming business in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, while working full-time.

Benjamin Middlewood, 24, works on his family’s 182-hectare (450-acre) arable farm in Driffield, Yorkshire Wolds. They grow a typical range of combinable crops, as well as vining peas for a local group, and sugar beet for the Newark factory.

Sophie Moore, 27, is a first generation farmer from Birmingham with a passion for running a sheep business around a full-time job in one of the most unlikely areas of the UK.

Emily Bennison, 23, lives on her family’s mixed livestock and arable farm in Swallow, Lincolnshire. She currently works for H&M Haylage and manages her family’s small herd of suckler cows.

Stephen Allen, 26, is from Rothes, Moray and works as a farm manager for Delfur Farms, a mixed beef and arable farm situated on the banks of the river Spey. The main focus of the farm is a herd of 150-head of pedigree Simmental cows along with 162 hectares (400 acres) of spring barley, all of which is for malting.

Andy Moye, 24, lives near Sudbury, Suffolk and is currently working on a beef unit.

Alison Warne, 16, lives in Wadebridge, Cornwall. She works on her family’s beef sheep and arable farm alongside studying for an agricultural diploma.

November has seen the return of the Young Farmers dinner dance season here in south west Lancashire.

Ben Greenfield, 24, is a butcher and third-generation farmer from Twycross, Leicestershire. The farm runs 1,000 Texel cross breeding ewes, 500 free-range laying hens and a few pigs.

Maddison Wilson, 27, is originally from Northamptonshire. She is now a new entrant farmer in Fife, Scotland, co-owner at Hadden 51AVÊÓƵand contract shepherdess.