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In your field - Roger Nicholson: "I'm surprised the Government aren't incentivising farm businesses to grow and diversify"

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: "I'm surprised the Government aren't incentivising farm businesses to grow and diversify"

My family will tell you I'm not one for acting my age and I recently offered to help my son Robert to vaccinate our tup lambs. He was a little reluctant at first, but I persuaded him that I could help...

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