In Your Field: Tom Clarke - 'Many a grand farmhouse has a dusty portrait of a peasant in the attic'

Being food producers, farmers know there is no such thing as a free lunch. Someone somewhere has worked hard to provide such generosity.

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In Your Field: Tom Clarke - 'Many a grand farmhouse has a dusty portrait of a peasant in the attic'

Being food producers, farmers know there is no such thing as a free lunch. Someone somewhere has worked hard to provide such generosity. Farms have to earn farmers a living. We are businesses; at times...

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