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In your field - Roger Nicholson: "We will be celebrating our 60th wedding anniversary... A lifetime spent in farming, and we've loved it"

Roger farms with his family at Cannon Hall Farm, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and has appeared in various TV series, including 'Springtime on the Farm'

Roger Nicholson
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In your field - Roger Nicholson: "We will be celebrating our 60th wedding anniversary... A lifetime spent in farming, and we've loved it"

Rewilding is a word that is constantly on the lips of conservationists and it seems to pop up again and again in the news. While I have always loved wild animals and nature, we should think long and...

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