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Young Farmer Focus 鈥� Billy Matthews: "Farmers work tirelessly to preserve our British breeds"

Young farmer Billy Matthews writes about running his own business, Billy's Farm, and his passions for showing people how hard farmers work to produce food

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Billy Matthews, 24, is a pig and sheep farmer from Tavistock in Devon. He started his own business, Billy's Farm, when he was just 16.
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Billy Matthews, 24, is a pig and sheep farmer from Tavistock in Devon. He started his own business, Billy's Farm, when he was just 16.

I grew up on a farm in Devon and from a young age have always wanted to be a farmer or involved in the industry somehow. The family farm was no longer working when I was growing up, so when I was old...

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