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From the editor: Water is the essence of life

This week from the Farmers Guardian editor Katie Jones

Katie Jones
Editor, Farmers Guardian and Dairy Farmer
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From the editor: Water is the essence of life

Nothing concentrates the mind on the importance of water quite like drought and consecutive heatwaves. With almost three-quarters of England and the whole of Wales now officially in drought, and Scotland...

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