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Streamlining and diversifying pays dividends for family farm on the urban fringe

Striving for quality genetics has proved to be the solution for a land-locked family farm on the edge of Sheffield

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The Mills family of Wyming Brook Farm, Sheffield.
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The Mills family of Wyming Brook Farm, Sheffield.

When a family farm is located between a large tract of moorland and a city, expansion is rarely an option. Breeding cattle Stephen Mills is the fourth generation to farm at Wyming Brook Farm, Sheffield,...

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