Diversification ensures next generation on-farm involvement

Community is at the heart of the Amiss family’s farming business on the Cornish coast

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Diversification ensures next generation on-farm involvement

Since meeting at agricultural college in 1986, Rona and Nevil Amiss dreamt of having their own farm. Neither are from farming backgrounds but that has not deterred them. In 1999, after working on other...

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