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Young Farmer Focus - Ben Read: "Knowing I might never be able to go back to farming completely destroyed me"

Ben Read, 22, is a sheep farmer from Maidstone in Kent

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Young farmer Ben Read had been diagnosed with hodgkin lymphoma in 2022 at the age of 21
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Young farmer Ben Read had been diagnosed with hodgkin lymphoma in 2022 at the age of 21

I was first introduced to farming when I was 6 years-old during a family holiday to Cumbria. My parents took me to a farm and I remember just being so curious to be around the farm, the animals and...

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