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In your field - Amy Wilkinson: "I could tell you all about the traumatic ordeal but the last thing you need is to hear how hard the job is, so I am sticking to the good stuff"

Amy works on her family鈥檚 tenanted farm at Halsall, Lancashire. Working mainly with her dad, Amy farms 285 hectares (704 acres) of arable crops and 550 beef cross cattle which are all reared through to finishing. You can follow her on Instagram @amygingewilkinson

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In your field - Amy Wilkinson: "I could tell you all about the traumatic ordeal but the last thing you need is to hear how hard the job is, so I am sticking to the good stuff"

Unfortunately, our somehow never-ending run of bad luck seems to continue with some of the hardest days farming I and we as a family have ever experienced since my last entry here. I could tell you...

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