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Farmer, 96, has no plans to be put out to pasture
Daily Express
|September 02, 2025
ONE of Britain’s oldest farmers has vowed to plough on at the age of 96 — and says he still enjoys the work.
Russell Ling has worked on his family’s Grange Farm since he was 16, but was lending a helping hand from the age of nine.
It’s thought he could be the oldest active farmer in the county — if not the country — and has no plans to stop taking part in haymaking, ploughing and rolling.
Mr Ling, from Otley, Suffolk, said: “I don’t know what I would do with myself. I would rather do something outside. I have been working all my life — you shouldn’t just stop and I enjoy doing the work.
This story is from the September 02, 2025 edition of Daily Express.
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