Farming from scratch: A few weeks before we were due to start lambing the world shut down

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Farming from scratch: A few weeks before we were due to start lambing the world shut down

In a new blog series, Matt Styles tells Farmers Guardian about what it is like to start a farming business from nothing. It is 5am on a Sunday morning in July, and I am halfway up the A1 to Yorkshire...

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