From the editor: We can and must have ambitious targets for both food production and the environment

This week from Farmers Guardian acting editor Katie Jones

Katie Jones
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From the editor: We can and must have ambitious targets for both food production and the environment

It has been another settled week weather-wise, meaning that farmers up and down the country have been able to get on with field work, with maize drills and mowers out in force in my home county of Cheshire....

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