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The future of farming

Posted by: Emma Howard Boyd, Posted on: 8 May 2018 - Categories: agriculture, Fisheries and biodiversity

Nothing makes more difference to our natural environment than farming. It can enhance and enrich it or damage and degrade it. Farming uses almost three quarters of the land in England and farmers are its custodians, producing food for people …

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