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NFU voices 'concern' about beavers' potential impact on agricultural land

Beavers could potentially impact agricultural land through undermining riverbanks, damaging trees, impeding farmland drainage and causing low-lying fields to flood, the NFU has warned. 

Hannah Binns
News Reporter
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NFU voices 'concern' about beavers' potential impact on agricultural land

Beavers could potentially impact agricultural land through undermining riverbanks, damaging trees, impeding farmland drainage and causing low-lying fields to flood, the NFU has warned. It came in response...

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