Talking Arable with Hannah Darby: Our five-year average rainfall has been on the climb, with harvest 2019 and 2020 being the wettest

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Talking Arable with Hannah Darby: Our five-year average rainfall has been on the climb, with harvest 2019 and 2020 being the wettest

Well that was an interesting year! Harvest year 2020 seemed to be the most extreme of all the growing years since I returned to work on the farm in 2015. It is currently compounded by this torrential...

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