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Third-generation farmers focus on sustainability in the Fens

Cambridgeshire brothers Mat and Lloyd Smith are taking bold steps to safeguard a sustainable future for their family's fenland arable farm. Teresa Rush reports

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Brothers, Mat and Lloyd Smith are not organic farmers, but they do have an ethos of doing what they believe is right for their family farming business, even if that means a departure from what might be...

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