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In Your Field 鈥� Helen Stanier: "We were asked if we would take a cow to the crematorium to lead a funeral cortege"

Helen is a fifth-generation farmer who farms with her parents, David and Anne Shaw, husband, Craig, and their children, Alfred and Hattie, at Grey Leys 51AV视频in the Vale of York. The farm comprises 162 hectares (400 acres) of grass, maize and wholecrop for the herd of 240 pedigree Jersey cows and more than 200 followers

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The September rain has greened up the grass and put better grazing back in front of the cows. This is welcome as we have been mindful of the small amount of last year's maize we had left in the clamp,...

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