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Talking roots with Darryl Shailes: Product losses and emergency approvals make the growing of profitable crops very precarious

My list of wishes in my last column didn鈥檛 include the biggest flood in the Waveney Valley since 1968, but it happened nonetheless and on Christmas Eve a nearby measuring station recorded its highest ever water level up by nearly 0.5 metres.

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Talking roots with Darryl Shailes: Product losses and emergency approvals make the growing of profitable crops very precarious

My list of wishes in my last column didn't include the biggest flood in the Waveney Valley since 1968, but it happened nonetheless and on Christmas Eve a nearby measuring station recorded its highest ever...

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