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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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