In your field: Emma Robinson - "Educating children on how their food is produced and where it comes from is essential for our industry to thrive"

Emma and her family farm in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, milking 100 pedigree Holsteins and selling raw milk from the farmgate. They also run 300 North Country Mules. Emma is Monmouthshire NFU chair and volunteers with the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution

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In your field: Emma Robinson - "Educating children on how their food is produced and where it comes from is essential for our industry to thrive"

The weather has been fine and dry ground conditions are good, so we have been applying fertiliser and spreading muck. Spring has certainly sprung on the farm, the daffodils are in full bloom and the...

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