Leaving Europe will be 'hopefully an opportunity', say young farmers

When Newsbeat visits Gloucestershire Young Farmers, they're hard at work setting up chairs and tables in a cleaned out cow shed.

It's just two days until their County Rally, the biggest date in the Young Farmers calendar.

"It's our showcase of what we do, and how fantastic we are basically," says county chairman, Fran Smart.

Competitors are judged on skills from shearing sheep and welding, to cake decorating and public speaking.

Then, at night-time, there's a massive party in a shed to celebrate.

Before all that though, we've come to ask one question.

As young rural people - what one promise could a politician make that would get you to vote for them?

Fran Smart is the chair of Gloucestershire young farmers

Brexit 'opportunity'

Make Brexit "an opportunity", says arable farmer Charlie Day.

A lot of farmers wanted to leave the EU even though lump-sum payments direct from Brussels - subsidies - keep many farm businesses going.

Many put the anti-EU feeling down to wanting to be rid of what they see as excessive scrutiny and regulation.

But with Britain's relationship with Europe still up for grabs, no guarantee that Westminster will pay subsidies in future, and trade deals still to be agreed, the future looks uncertain.

Charlie is optimistic, saying "hopefully they will get us a good deal, whoever is in power".

'Allow badger culling'

Lily McNab-Jones is a young dairy farmer.

What would be her "one thing" that would win her vote?

She says: "I don't even need to think about that. Allow badger-culling."

Critics oppose plans to kill badgers, calling the idea unnecessary and cruel.

But many farmers say a cull is needed to stop cattle being re-infected with the disease TB.

Hundreds of thousands of cattle have been slaughtered with the illness, and it costs taxpayers millions of pounds every year in compensation payments to farmers.

Farms can also be 'shut down' for months, meaning that no cattle are allowed to be moved, except to be slaughtered.

Lily says: "We have lost 30 cattle to TB since February. I feel very strongly about it."

'Rural isolation'

Fran Smart and Sarah Pugh both say they want a bigger focus on the mental health of people living and working in the countryside.

Fran says: "Rural isolation is a major issue.

Rural isolation is a major issue, says Sarah

"You get issues due to being out in the sticks, in a tractor all day on your own."

"Thinking it over and being exhausted all the time," adds Sarah. "It's tough, isn't it, being lonely".

Rural mental health has recently been one of the biggest national campaigns for Young Farmers.

Other issues raised include...

- the difficulty young people can have finding anywhere to live in rural communities, due to councils selling off rented farms, and second-home buyers pushing up prices.

- slow or non-existent broadband, making it hard to run modern businesses, stream TV shows and films or play video games.

- improved public awareness of the cost and effort of food production, and a campaign to get shoppers to support smaller local businesses.

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