In your field: Amy Wilkinson - "Nothing makes you fly like pure adrenaline on arriving to find most of our big bullocks out and making a break for it down the road"

Amy works on her family’s tenanted farm at Halsall, Lancashire. Working mainly with her dad, Amy farms 285 hectares (704 acres) of arable crops and 550 beef cross cattle which are all reared through to finishing. You can follow her on Instagram @amygingewilkinson

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In your field: Amy Wilkinson - "Nothing makes you fly like pure adrenaline on arriving to find most of our big bullocks out and making a break for it down the road"

Now by no stretch of the imagination am I a natural born athlete. For example, my school years were spent as the chubby, ginger kid with glasses and braces who hated anything exerting which would make...

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