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In Your Field: Emma Robinson - "I could do with a new calf shed but I doubt Santa will deliver as our milk price was dropped in November"

Emma and her family farm in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, milking 100 pedigree Holsteins and selling raw milk from the farmgate. They also run 300 North Country Mules. Emma is Monmouthshire NFU chair and volunteers with the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution

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In Your Field: Emma Robinson - "I could do with a new calf shed but I doubt Santa will deliver as our milk price was dropped in November"

It's that time of the year again when the clocks change and we start work in the dark and finish in the dark. My trusty head torch is required now as I navigate my way through the morning and evening...

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