In your field - Emma Robinson: "I met with our Labour MP to discuss this very poorly thought-out Inheritance Tax policy"

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: "I met with our Labour MP to discuss this very poorly thought-out Inheritance Tax policy"

Autumn has arrived. The shorts and the factor 50 suncream have been put away and the waterproof leggings and overalls are back on. We are having the first dry week for a while so we are going to harvest...

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