Two farmers recognised as most powerful young people in UK

The fifth-generation farmer from Yorkshire and the farming contractor from Oxfordshire have been placed on The Times’ Young Power List 2025 that celebrates talent, hard work and ingenuity.

Kaleb has been known from his appearances in Clarkson’s Farm. The new season of the much-loved farming show is set to air next month.

The Diddly Squat farm manager has also written four books. His latest one, aimed at young aspiring farmers and called ‘Kaleb’s Farmyard Tales: Escaping Animals and Runaway Tractors’, will be released later this year.

Kaleb said: “Within two months of my mum buying me three hens, I was selling eggs all around Chipping Norton.”

The 26-year-old farming contractor has no qualms about telling Jeremy Clarkson where he might be going wrong. “People say, ‘Oh, you speak to Jeremy like he’s an idiot.’ Well, he is,” Kaleb said. “On the farming side of things at least. He’s really good at being a journalist.”

READ MORE: What’s going to happen in season four of Clarkson’s Farm?

Supporter of British farming

The 29-year-old Rebecca is a fifth-generation farmer, but her parents were not keen for her to follow in their footsteps. “They saw an industry that was struggling financially and wanted me to do something different,” she said.

She could not shake her desire to delve into farming. She went on to gain a master’s degree in rural land management from the Royal Agricultural University.

Rebecca is strongly critical of Labour’s inheritance tax changes for farmers. She said: “A fair tax should be levied on people who have the ability to pay.

“The impact on British food production would be massive. A lot of consumers want food that’s high welfare, traceable and sustainable. We can’t guarantee that from food produced abroad.”

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