Farming Matters: Christine Bish - 'It is vital that farming people value themselves'

Christine Bish is member of management of the National Farm Women’s Club and chair of the RABI Volunteers Committee for Cambridgeshire

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'Farmers do not receive a payslip, but they do work very hard. There seems to something of a contradiction here'
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'Farmers do not receive a payslip, but they do work very hard. There seems to something of a contradiction here'

In a recent survey commissioned by the NFU into valued professions, farming comes second only to nursing. About 2,000 adults were questioned and the results were presented to peers and MPs in the House...

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