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In your field - Amy Wilkinson: "Sometimes life doesn't work out the way we want it to 鈥� and our farm was sold"

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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Amy Wilkinson: "As I have been teetering closer and closer to 30, I have been seriously considering what my future holds"
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Amy Wilkinson: "As I have been teetering closer and closer to 30, I have been seriously considering what my future holds"

It was in 2020, in peak lockdown, and I was carting haylage bales home across the flat moss road, with a view for miles. In that moment, I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the earth began, to quote...

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