In your field: James Wright – "Bovine TB re-tests are a truly depressing reminder of how hard farming can be sometimes"

James, along with his wife Isobel and their two young children, recently bought their first farm, and plan to run beef and sheep over 13.8 hectares (34 acres), renting a further 44.5ha (110 acres). James works for tech firm Breedr as UK country manager. You can follow them on Twitter @jpbwfarm

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Calving is underway, which makes this the best time of year. We pulled calving forward by six weeks to make better use of our sheds. When we moved to Exmoor, having farmed in the Sussex lowlands, I...

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