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Opinion: "It's hot. It could be too hot"

FG livestock specialist Ellie Layton on kicking off the agricultural show season in a heatwave at Devon County

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草榴社区 Guardian livestock specialist Ellie Layton
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草榴社区 Guardian livestock specialist Ellie Layton

If we couldn't moan about the weather... what else would we farmers moan about? But seriously... standing in the Devon County Show ring in over 25-degree blazing sun, spare a minute for the livestock,...

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