Backbone of Britain: 'The change in the number of women at the top of farming businesses in my lifetime has been tremendous'

As Dorothy Fairburn retires from her role as CLA’s director north this spring, she spoke to Clemmie Gleeson about her life and career in the countryside, her Nuffield scholarship on suicide in the farming community and her pl

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Backbone of Britain:  'The change in the number of women at the top of farming businesses in my lifetime has been tremendous'

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