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Young Farmer Focus - George Mathews: "Overseeing the day-to-day operations of a watercress farm is a truly rewarding job"

George Mathews writes on his life as a watercress farmer in Dorset

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George Matthews, a farmer at the Watercress Company in Dorchester, said: "One morning you could be harvesting and forecasting the area needed to be harvested down to the gram, and that same afternoon you can be developing a fertiliser program to be applied via drone."
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George Matthews, a farmer at the Watercress Company in Dorchester, said: "One morning you could be harvesting and forecasting the area needed to be harvested down to the gram, and that same afternoon you can be developing a fertiliser program to be applied via drone."

Having grown up around watercress farms, I had always known they were a thing. But I never understood the level of precision needed to run them as an operation. LISTEN NOW: That changed when...

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