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In your field: Amy Wilkinson - 'many farming families may have a matriarch, but ours is truly one of a kind'

This week from our In your field writer Amy Wilkinson (January 5)

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In your field: Amy Wilkinson - 'many farming families may have a matriarch, but ours is truly one of a kind'

I hope you have all had an incredible Christmas and New Year, doing the things the festive period is all about, eating, drinking and spending time with loved ones. For us, the festive shenanigans begin...

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