It is about a young farmer Nate and his wife Olive who is soon to become a mother.

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Long ago, a young farmer and haberdasher from Missouri followed an unlikely path to the vice presidency.

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Mr Singh was not a professional runner when he was young but a farmer in Punjab, India.

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And farmers are ageing (the average British farmer is now well into his 50s), with few young people keen to enter a hard, uncertain business.

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