15/07/2011
Charlotte Smith is at the Great Yorkshire Show to see what it offers young people looking for a career in agriculture.
Charlotte Smith is at the Great Yorkshire Show, to see what it offers young people looking for a career in agriculture. New entrants to farming have increased in recent years, but 52,000 recruits are needed across the next decade to maintain current levels of food production, according to the skills council LANTRA.
Farming Today producer Emma Weatherill enters the show ring to measure herself against the nation's top young farmers, as they compete in a national cattle judging contest. And Charlotte Smith walks the bustling Yorkshire showground to see how the Royal Agricultural College and Harrogate's Askham Bryan college are recruiting.
Presenter: Charlotte Smith Producer: Melvin Rickarby.
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