Autumn Drilling Diaries: Favourable conditions on-farm continue into November

Drilling is well underway across the UK and we catch up each week with growers in the field, to find out how progress is coming along

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Autumn Drilling Diaries: Favourable conditions on-farm continue into November

November 07: Favourable drilling conditions continue into November Farming more than 400 hectares in Brasted, north Kent, tenant farmer James Edgar runs a mixed business of 250 Jersey dairy cattle alongside...

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