In Your Field: Mike Harris - Burying your head in the sand is not a good long-term strategy

The expression ‘the perfect storm’ seems to be a phrase used more and more recently. Unfortunately for farmers, it sums up what many of us are going through in 2022. Whichever way you look at the outlook, economic or weather-related, the picture does not appear to be hugely rosy.

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In Your Field: Mike Harris - Burying your head in the sand is not a good long-term strategy

The expression the perfect storm seems to be a phrase used more and more recently. Unfortunately for farmers, it sums up what many of us are going through in 2022. Whichever way you look at the outlook,...

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