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Ag student view: Harriet Lyon - 'Like so many other students, I feel the pandemic cut my first year short'

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Ag student view: Harriet Lyon - 'Like so many other students, I feel the pandemic cut my first year short'

Harriet Lyon, 21, from North Yorkshire is in her third year of study at the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. Here she shares her latest blog with us on what life as an agricultural...

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