When the stepping down of the current director, Charles Mills, was announced at a council meeting of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, it was muted whether ‘he’, the next director, would be from a farming background. And it set Rachel Coates thinking...’or her’. In an exclusive interview with Country Post, she said: “I thought, I could do that. I looked at the job specification and I had got the essentials and desirables and ticked the boxes.
” Originally from North Yorkshire, she met her husband, Stephen, through the Young Farmers network, they married and she joined him on his family farm in West Yorkshire. They farm Holstein cattle and have a few Jersey cows as well. Their 26-year-old son, Ben, also works on the farm. While there is not much she wishes to change, in what is proving to be a successful show format, she wants there to be more focus on farming from all around the region and more younger farmers getting involved.
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