In Your Field: Tom Clarke - 'Potatoes destined for fish and chips could now be dumped'

In theory, it should be fairly easy to farm while staying two metres away from every other human being. Open fields and solitary tractor cabs mean arable farming is fairly self-isolating at the best of times. There are clearly fewer face-to-face meetings than, say, being Prime Minister.

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In Your Field: Tom Clarke - 'Potatoes destined for fish and chips could now be dumped'

In theory, it should be fairly easy to farm while staying two metres away from every other human being. Open fields and solitary tractor cabs mean arable farming is fairly self-isolating at the best of...

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