13 July 2020
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In Cambridgeshire, Cassia winter barley yields are looking ‘suprisingly okay' says Tom Mead of Mead Farms in Foxton. "We finished cutting a 16ha field yesterday which did 8.6tonnes/hectare at 14 per...
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