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Spring drilling update: planting underway despite challenging conditions

After an exceptionally wet autumn and winter, spring drilling seems to be making a steady start with growers on lighter land making use of the irregular dry weather windows

Ashleigh Ellwood
Head of Arable
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Spring drilling update: planting underway despite challenging conditions

Farming on the Lincolnshire Wolds, estate manager Paul Barnes of South Ormsby Estate, has managed to plant just short of 40 hectares of LSPB Lynx spring beans, after the dry weather window opened last...

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