As one Defra agency appears to be finally learning the painful lessons of IT rollouts gone wrong, another seems to have walked into the same trap. William Surman
I have been at Farmers Guardian for two and a half years. On leaving university I spent a year working on the family farm in the fantastic Worcestershire countryside in the shadow of the Malvern Hills. From there I went to Brussels – the central hub of agricultural and environmental legislation – where I worked with parliamentarians trying to develop the best policies to look after the countryside. From there I jumped the fence into journalism – with the aim to hold the policy makers (who I had just been working for!) to account, reporting on all the good things, and the bad, being done to the countryside.
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