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From setback to success: How one young farmer turned an empty shed into a profitable pig enterprise

With no experience in the sector and an unused poultry building to fill, Esme Marsh took a chance on a pig finishing scheme and has not looked back

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Left to right: Rebecca Kelly and Esme Marsh.
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Left to right: Rebecca Kelly and Esme Marsh.

Growing up on the family's 87-hectare (200-acre) arable farm in Derbyshire, 20-year-old Esme Marsh had always had an interest in farming but had not yet found her place on the farm. After working...

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