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Roger Nicholson: "I believe in the family farm – the shared responsibility, the ability to pass on knowledge from one generation to the next"

Roger farms with his family at Cannon Hall Farm, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and has appeared in various TV series, including 'Springtime on the Farm'

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Roger Nicholson, of Cannon Hall Farm.
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Roger Nicholson, of Cannon Hall Farm.

There's an old African proverb that says: "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." Family farms For many years, between the 1950s and the 1980s, I worked alone, and...

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