In your field: Kate Beavan - 'Corporates buying farms to plant trees is wrong and action is needed'

Son Sam arrived home after shearing 10,000 sheep in the Scottish Highlands, and it is great to have him back.

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In your field: Kate Beavan - 'Corporates buying farms to plant trees is wrong and action is needed'

Son Sam arrived home after shearing 10,000 sheep in the Scottish Highlands, and it is great to have him back. I've missed the father/son farming banter around the kitchen table. They have the ideal...

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