In your field: Helen Stanier - "Fresh milk often provokes memories about growing up on, or near, a farm"

Helen is a fifth-generation farmer who farms with her parents, David and Anne Shaw, husband, Craig, and their children, Alfred and Hattie, at Grey Leys Farm in the Vale of York. The farm comprises 162 hectares (400 acres) of grass, maize and wholecrop for the herd of 240 pedigree Jersey cows and more than 200 followers

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In your field: Helen Stanier - "Fresh milk often provokes memories about growing up on, or near, a farm"

Just when you think it is drying up, another deluge hits the farm, and we are back to square one. February has been extremely wet, keeping the fields off-limits for cows and machinery alike. And...

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