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In your field: Roger Nicholson - "Things will go wrong when rearing animals"

Roger Nicholson farms with his family at the heavily diversified Cannon Hall Farm, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, which has sparked various Channel 5 series including Springtime on the Farm. Roger, 81, farms with his sons Dave and Robert and says he has no plans to retire just yet.

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In your field: Roger Nicholson - "Things will go wrong when rearing animals"

My friend Peter Wright, the Yorkshire vet, often says: "Where there's livestock, there's deadstock." It's as plain as night and day; things will go wrong when you're rearing animals for a living. As...

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