On our most recent episode of the Young Stock Podcast, we spoke to Swedish woman Kristina Hansén, a journalist for Sweden’s largest agricultural newspaper Land Lantbruk.

Kristina has a background in farming, as her parents grew chives and reared sheep on a small arable farm in a town just outside Stockholm.

After studying agronomy with a focus on rural development, she moved to the Swedish capital and has been writing for Land Lantbruk for over five years.

Kristina specialises in EU policy and must frequently make business trips to Brussels or across Europe to speak to politicians. That is how I met her while on a farming press tour in Hungary.

The young journalist tells us all about her career, what agriculture is like in Sweden and her expectations of the new European commissioner-designates.

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