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In Your Field 鈥� James Robinson: "It was the first time that Strickley Strawberry 21 had been off-farm and she paraded beautifully"

James farms Dairy Shorthorns east of Kendal, Cumbria, with his parents Kathleen and Henry, wife Michelle and sons Robert and Chris. The fifth generation to farm at Strickley, he is also vice-chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network

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In my last column, I mentioned that it had felt a bit 鈥榖ackendish' 鈥� well, things didn't improve much after that. We had two weeks of very wet weather, which meant earlier than planned housing of the cows...

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