Emma Gray's Farming Life: "A farm sale can make for mixed feelings"

In a blog for Farmers Guardian, shepherdess and top sheepdog triallist Emma Gray talks about the generational pull of farming

Emily Ashworth
Digital Editor
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Emma Gray's Farming Life: "A farm sale can make for mixed feelings"

We turn the page on another year – 2024 was a dramatic one for farming. Regardless, the agricultural calendar marches on and waits for no one. It's hard to think of spring when the days are so short,...

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