Letters: "I have never received a penny of support specifically for my native breed cattle, sheep and hill ponies"

Farmers Guardian reader Sam Sykes, from Sheffield, responds to Christopher Price's recent Farming Matters column on funding to preserve rare breeds

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Letters: "I have never received a penny of support specifically for my native breed cattle, sheep and hill ponies"

I welcome the Farming Matters column from Christopher Price, chief executive of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust, published on June 20. I was particularly struck by two sentences: ‘Fantastic work by smallholders,...

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