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In your field: Amy Wilkinson - "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts"

Amy works on her family鈥檚 tenanted farm at Halsall, Lancashire. Working mainly with her dad, Amy farms 285 hectares (704 acres) of arable crops and 550 beef cross cattle which are all reared through to finishing. You can follow her on Instagram @amygingewilkinson

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In your field: Amy Wilkinson - "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts"

Some of you may have noticed my recent entries haven't been very farming-related and my honest reason is I am following the age-old advice of, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything...

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