07 September 2024
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I apologise for the lack of farming content in this next piece, however I am now treating this column as my diary cataloguing big life events that you are all privy to. So, I guess you could say I am...
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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
19 July 2025
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Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, at Constantine, Cornwall, where they milk 130 cows and supply Saputo. Total cattle numbers stand at 420 head kept on 162 hectares (400 acres). Alan and his wife Sarah have two children, Ross and Dana and the family also run three self-catering holiday lets
13 July 2025
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Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops
12 July 2025
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