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In your field: Amy Wilkinson - "Seeing the end result through direct selling has filled me with such a great sense of pride in what we do"

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 - "Seeing the end result through direct selling has filled me with such a great sense of pride in what we do"

During the dark days of lockdown in 2020, I, like many others, came up with the idea of selling our beef direct to customers in boxes, believing that we had a good selling point as our cattle are conservation...

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